Anesthesiologist Salary in Michigan 2026,
$391,490 Median | BLS Data by City

BLS does not publish a Michigan median for this occupation. The state cell for SOC 29-1211 is suppressed in OEWS May 2025, which BLS does where publication could disclose an individual establishment or where the estimate fails reliability standards. The best available figure is the national median of $391,490 a year, or $188.22 an hour, and it should be read as a national number rather than a Michigan one. Michigan does publish employment of 1,270 at a location quotient of 1.16.

OEWS suppresses cells for two reasons: disclosure and reliability. If publishing a state and occupation combination could reveal the wages paid by an identifiable employer, or if the sample supporting the estimate is too thin to meet BLS reliability standards, the cell is withheld. With 1,270 anesthesiologists in Michigan concentrated across a modest number of large employers, either condition could apply. The suppression is a statistical decision, not a statement about the Michigan market.

It is a published metro median for the occupation, and it is far below the national median of $391,490 — but it should be treated cautiously. Metro cells for physician occupations rest on small samples, and a figure this far below national is more plausibly explained by the composition of who was captured in that metro than by a genuine local market rate for practising anesthesiologists. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn and Muskegon-Norton Shores are not published at all.

No. The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs issues one physician licence through the Michigan Board of Medicine or the Board of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, and anaesthesiology is a matter of residency training, board certification and hospital privileging rather than a separate state credential. Michigan does license anesthesiologist assistants as a distinct profession, which not every state does.

As a national benchmark with a Michigan context attached, and not as a Michigan salary figure. The percentile ladder here — $207,000 at the 25th percentile through $490,530 at the 75th — is national and is a defensible reference for negotiation anywhere in the country. The genuinely Michigan-specific facts on this page are the employment of 1,270 at a 1.16 location quotient, the LARA licensing route, and the city income tax layer that applies in Detroit and around two dozen other municipalities.

OEWS withholds a state and occupation cell when publishing it would risk disclosing an identifiable employer's wages, or when the survey sample supporting the estimate is too thin to meet reliability standards. Michigan's 1,270 anesthesiologists are concentrated across a limited number of large health systems, so either condition is plausible. The reason to state it at the top of the page rather than in a footnote is that the alternative — quoting a national figure as though it were a state one — is exactly the error that makes salary data untrustworthy. A reader deserves to know that the $391,490 on this page describes the United States, not Michigan.

Something, though not a wage. A location quotient of 1.16 across 1,270 anesthesiologists means Michigan employs the occupation at above the national rate for its size, which is consistent with a state carrying substantial surgical capacity and several academic medical centres. The peer states that do publish are tightly clustered around the national figure — Indiana $394,060, New Mexico $393,970, Alabama $392,350 — which suggests anaesthesiology compensation varies less across states than most physician specialties. Neither observation permits a Michigan point estimate, but together they argue against assuming Michigan would be an outlier in either direction.

Three. Licensing runs through LARA, which is straightforward but is a separate application for anyone moving in, and it must complete before credentialing can begin at any Michigan facility. The city income tax layer is real and frequently missed: Detroit levies 2.4% on residents and 1.2% on non-residents, with roughly two dozen other Michigan cities at 1% and 0.5%, and at anaesthesiology income levels the resident rate is a significant annual cost. And Michigan's academic centres hold a meaningful share of the state's physician training, which is the same effect that makes Ann Arbor the lowest-paying published metro for pediatricians and psychiatrists elsewhere in this Michigan series.