Michigan · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Michigan

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 179,800 people in Michigan across roughly 9,637 establishments, with average annual pay of $69,570.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Michigan grew 11.6% from 2020 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.

  • 179,800Employment, 2025
  • 9,637Establishments
  • $69,570Avg. annual pay
  • 4.1%Share of Michigan jobs
  • 0.84Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Michigan, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 132,600 to 179,800.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 132,600; 2005 134,300; 2006 134,500; 2007 134,700; 2008 130,300; 2009 117,800; 2010 116,700; 2011 120,600; 2012 123,900; 2013 126,800; 2014 131,100; 2015 136,400; 2016 139,400; 2017 144,700; 2018 151,300; 2019 161,000; 2020 161,100; 2021 167,500; 2022 179,100; 2023 180,500; 2024 181,000; 2025 179,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025179,7979,637$69,574 0.7%est. · 1.00
2024180,9749,411$67,166 0.3%est. · 1.00
2023180,45410,224$65,087 0.8%est. · 1.00
2022179,1109,349$62,145 7.0%est. · 1.00
2021167,4698,664$60,411 4.0%est. · 1.00
2020161,0528,491$58,565 0.0%est. · 1.00
2019161,0048,263$56,663 6.4%est. · 1.00
2018151,2807,550$56,382 4.6%est. · 1.00
2017144,6567,349$54,558 3.8%est. · 1.00
2016139,3517,169$53,952 2.2%est. · 1.00

† 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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation14,8448.3%0.92pub.
482Rail Transportation150.0%0.38est. · 0.72
483Water Transportation8750.5%0.44pub.
484Truck Transportation45,57725.4%1.09pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation14,0707.8%0.59pub.
486Pipeline Transportation1,4570.8%0.90pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation4520.3%0.51est. · 0.99
488Support Activities for Transportation19,05310.6%0.75est. · 0.99
491Postal Service20,52411.4%1.20est. · 1.00
492Couriers and Messengers22,11412.3%0.70pub.
493Warehousing and Storage40,81522.7%0.75est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Transportation and Warehousing in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth

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