Project Management Specialists salary in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

The figures

The median Project Management Specialists in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area earns $105,350 a year ($50.65 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Project Management Specialists in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI earn between $81,710 and $132,910 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $64,010 or less and the top 10 percent earn $161,350 or more. BLS estimates 13,230 Project Management Specialists jobs in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI area — 6.948 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.01 (about the same concentration as the nation). That is 1.2% of all Project Management Specialists employment in the United States (1,066,670 jobs nationally). By employment, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is the #19 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Project Management Specialists. In aggregate, Project Management Specialists in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI earn about $1.46 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $82,108.02 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Project Management Specialists is about $1.09 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 5.1% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI stands #10 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Project Management Specialists. By employment, Project Management Specialists is the #25 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Placed against the national distribution for Project Management Specialists, the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI median of $105,350 falls between the national median ($102,320) and the national 75th percentile ($133,100). Across all occupations, the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI median is $52,080 a year — Project Management Specialists pay is 102.3% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Project Management Specialists in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI earn 2.5 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($161,350 against $64,010). The middle half spans $51,200 — from $81,710 to $132,910. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($77.57) is 2.52 times the 10th ($30.77). In the upper half of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $132,910 takes home $96,712.28 and the 90th percentile wage of $161,350 takes home $114,942.08 — $18,229.80 more net for $28,440 more gross. Against the median take-home of $78,717.16, the top decile keeps 1.46 times as much. The mean wage of $110,480 sits 4.9% above the median: higher-paid Project Management Specialists pull the average up in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Among the 30 covered occupations in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Project Management Specialists ranks #2 by median pay. In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI wage ladder of covered occupations, Project Management Specialists sits between Software Developers at $130,760 and General and Operations Managers at $104,010. Project Management Specialists accounts for 0.7% of all employment in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,846 Project Management Specialists; Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI employs 0.6 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Michigan

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Michigan; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $78,717.16 of the $105,350 gross is kept ($3,027.58 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 25.28%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 20.10% at the 10th percentile, 22.79% at the 25th percentile, 27.23% at the 75th percentile, 28.76% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $33,621.40 on a gross rise of $51,200.

The same engine at the other published points of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $51,142.34 a year at the 10th percentile to $114,942.08 at the 90th — a spread of $63,799.74 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI median wage of $52,080 takes home $42,063.76 a year ($1,617.84 per paycheck, deduction rate 19.23%). The Project Management Specialists median take-home of $78,717.16 sits $36,653.40 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $105,350 in Michigan

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Project Management Specialists earns $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour). The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI median of $105,350 is $3,030 (3.0%) above the national median.

The means rank the area differently: $110,480 a year in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI against $110,740 nationally, a gap of $260 (0.2%).

Set against the whole local market, the Project Management Specialists 90th percentile of $161,350 is 127% of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI all-occupations 90th percentile ($127,470), and its 10th percentile of $64,010 is 207% of the area-wide 10th ($30,990).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.