Michigan · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in Michigan

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 14,800 people in Michigan across roughly 236 establishments, with average annual pay of $126,160.

Employment in Air Transportation in Michigan grew 10.4% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 78.2% 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.

  • 14,800Employment, 2025
  • 236Establishments
  • $126,160Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of Michigan jobs
  • 0.92Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in Michigan, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 15,000 to 14,800.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,000; 2005 15,200; 2006 14,300; 2007 14,300; 2008 14,200; 2009 12,700; 2010 13,400; 2011 14,200; 2012 14,100; 2013 13,700; 2014 13,100; 2015 12,300; 2016 12,600; 2017 13,900; 2018 14,600; 2019 15,200; 2020 13,400; 2021 13,100; 2022 13,200; 2023 14,000; 2024 14,400; 2025 14,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202514,844236$126,164 2.9%pub.
202414,419224$120,870 3.3%pub.
202313,955223$120,372 5.6%pub.
202213,219196$108,438 1.0%pub.
202113,084177$97,867 2.7%pub.
202013,444168$102,937 11.5%pub.
201915,192165$96,066 4.3%pub.
201814,572152$93,300 4.8%pub.
201713,908146$89,642 10.6%pub.
201612,578142$94,267 2.3%pub.

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.

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

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Air Transportation in Michigan, quarterly, at full depth

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