SOC 33-3041 · Protective Service Occupations · May 2025

How much do Parking Enforcement Workers make in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Parking Enforcement Workers in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is $37,460. The 10th percentile is $32,810 and the 90th percentile is $46,790. Employment is 100.

Median annual wage

$37,460

10th percentile
$32,810
25th percentile
$32,810
Median
$37,460
75th percentile
$37,460
90th percentile
$46,790
Mean
$38,300

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

A transit bus driver standing beside a bus at a rest stop in Denali
Denali transit bus driver Gary at Teklanika Rest Stop, August 29, 2019. Photograph by Emily Mesner, National Park Service. Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Percentile spread

For Parking Enforcement Workers, the published 10th percentile is $32,810 and the 90th percentile is $46,790. The difference is $13,980, which is 37.3% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $32,810 to the 75th at $37,460, covers $4,650.

The mean annual wage is $38,300, which sits above the median of $37,460. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI median is 19.8% lower than the national median of $46,730 for Parking Enforcement Workers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $37,349, which is 20.1% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the Michigan median of $37,460.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is 100.298, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $37,460 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Parking Enforcement Workers at $37,349 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Parking Enforcement Workers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Parking Enforcement Workers accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI (100 of 1,904,530). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (9,050 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.90 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI · Parking Enforcement Workers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Parking Enforcement Workers make in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Parking Enforcement Workers in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is $37,460. The 10th percentile is $32,810 and the 90th percentile is $46,790. Employment is 100.

How does that compare with the national median for Parking Enforcement Workers?

The local median is 19.8% lower than the national median of $46,730.

What is Parking Enforcement Workers pay in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is 100.298, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $37,460 is $37,349. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.