Michigan · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Michigan

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 52,200 people in Michigan worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $71,590.

Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Michigan grew 8.2% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.

  • 52,200Employment, 2025
  • $71,590Mean annual wage
  • 1.2%Share of Michigan jobs
  • 0.89Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Michigan, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 55,100 to 52,200.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 55,100; 2005 55,100; 2006 54,200; 2007 53,500; 2008 52,300; 2009 48,100; 2010 47,900; 2011 48,400; 2012 48,800; 2013 49,800; 2014 50,600; 2015 51,500; 2016 52,200; 2017 52,900; 2018 53,800; 2019 54,600; 2020 48,200; 2021 50,900; 2022 53,200; 2023 53,400; 2024 52,800; 2025 52,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
202552,164$71,586 1.3%
202452,828$67,342 1.1%
202353,420$64,921 0.5%
202253,168$63,475 4.5%
202150,856$62,877 5.4%
202048,232$60,054 11.6%
201954,555$56,393 1.4%
201853,810$55,350 1.7%
201752,916$54,511 1.4%
201652,201$52,655 1.3%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Michigan. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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