Michigan · NAICS 51 · Annual, 2025
Information in Michigan
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 51 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Information (NAICS 51) employed about 58,600 people in Michigan across roughly 10,379 establishments, with average annual pay of $107,980.
Employment in Information in Michigan grew 7.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Michigan than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.69). Average pay in the industry is 52.5% above the all-industries average in Michigan. 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.
- 58,600Employment, 2025
- 10,379Establishments
- $107,980Avg. annual pay
- 1.3%Share of Michigan jobs
- 0.69Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 72,000; 2005 71,100; 2006 70,100; 2007 69,200; 2008 66,100; 2009 60,000; 2010 59,100; 2011 57,600; 2012 57,800; 2013 59,500; 2014 62,100; 2015 61,000; 2016 61,700; 2017 61,200; 2018 61,000; 2019 60,100; 2020 54,700; 2021 55,900; 2022 60,700; 2023 61,900; 2024 60,500; 2025 58,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58,600 | 10,379 | $107,977 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 60,539 | 9,894 | $101,601 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 61,864 | 10,876 | $96,590 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 60,743 | 9,609 | $92,942 | 8.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 55,913 | 8,319 | $89,618 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 54,662 | 7,841 | $84,078 | 9.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 60,113 | 7,313 | $73,364 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 60,962 | 6,449 | $69,876 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 61,199 | 6,095 | $67,390 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 61,677 | 5,548 | $65,032 | 1.1% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 6 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of information | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 512 | Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries | 5,319 | 9.1% | 0.52 | pub. |
| 513 | Publishing Industries | 14,595 | 24.9% | 0.58 | pub. |
| 516 | Broadcasting and Content Providers | 4,496 | 7.7% | 0.47 | pub. |
| 517 | Telecommunications | 13,719 | 23.4% | 0.81 | pub. |
| 518 | Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services | 10,066 | 17.2% | 0.73 | pub. |
| 519 | Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services | 10,405 | 17.8% | 1.19 | pub. |
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.
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Information in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth
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