Michigan · NAICS 517 · Annual, 2025
Telecommunications in Michigan
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 517 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Telecommunications (NAICS 517) employed about 13,700 people in Michigan across roughly 1,350 establishments, with average annual pay of $94,090.
Employment in Telecommunications in Michigan declined 6.8% from 2024 to 2025. Employment fell 41.7% from 2004 to 2025. 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.
- 13,700Employment, 2025
- 1,350Establishments
- $94,090Avg. annual pay
- 0.3%Share of Michigan jobs
- 0.81Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 23,500; 2005 23,100; 2006 22,600; 2007 23,000; 2008 22,300; 2009 22,200; 2010 20,900; 2011 19,500; 2012 19,900; 2013 19,900; 2014 20,000; 2015 19,200; 2016 18,900; 2017 18,500; 2018 17,400; 2019 16,300; 2020 15,200; 2021 14,600; 2022 15,200; 2023 14,900; 2024 14,700; 2025 13,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13,719 | 1,350 | $94,089 | 6.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 14,726 | 1,324 | $89,655 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 14,860 | 1,489 | $89,811 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 15,203 | 1,405 | $87,801 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 14,626 | 1,323 | $85,861 | 4.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 15,235 | 1,377 | $82,716 | 6.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 16,312 | 1,244 | $77,932 | 6.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 17,430 | 1,138 | $74,566 | 5.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 18,451 | 1,132 | $72,831 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 18,886 | 1,095 | $71,530 | 1.5% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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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Telecommunications in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for telecommunications in Michigan. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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