Michigan · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Michigan

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 450 people in Michigan across roughly 75 establishments, with average annual pay of $41,540.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Michigan grew 57.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 51.2% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 54.6% of that loss. QCEW withheld part of this figure for Michigan; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.99. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Michigan are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 450Employment, 2025
  • 75Establishments
  • $41,540Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Michigan jobs
  • 0.51Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.99. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Michigan, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 400 to 450.020040060020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 400; 2005 390; 2006 380; 2007 470; 2008 400; 2009 380; 2010 460; 2011 430; 2012 430; 2013 460; 2014 510; 2015 500; 2016 570; 2017 590; 2018 590; 2019 560; 2020 290; 2021 400; 2022 440; 2023 450; 2024 440; 2025 450.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202545275$41,537 3.0%est. · 0.99
202443972$40,623 2.1%est. · 0.99
202344882$36,504 1.1%est. · 0.99
202244373$33,976 9.9%est. · 0.99
202140367$34,116 40.4%est. · 0.99
202028762$32,196 48.8%est. · 0.99
201956062$30,434 4.9%est. · 1.00
201858959$29,418 0.4%pub.
201758656$28,321 3.2%pub.
201656851$27,151 13.1%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth

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