OB-GYN Salary in Michigan 2026,
$209,650 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Michigan figure is $209,650 a year, or $100.79 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $127,190 at the 10th percentile to $422,390 at the 90th. That is 28.4% below the national median of $292,910. Michigan employs 880 OB-GYNs at a location quotient of 1.46 — well above the national employment rate for the specialty.

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood at $250,680, ahead of Saginaw $234,160 and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn $209,550. The largest metro publishing the lowest figure is the notable point: Detroit's obstetric employment is weighted toward academic and safety-net hospitals with a heavier public-payer mix, while west Michigan's systems compete for physicians against a stronger commercial base.

Chiefly because the state's row contains a wide mixture of practice arrangements, and Michigan employs the specialty at 1.46 times the national rate — a large, varied workforce rather than a scarce one. The $127,190 tenth percentile reflects part-time, gynaecology-only and academic posts rather than full-scope obstetric practice, and that pulls the median down. The $284,810 seventy-fifth percentile and $422,390 ninetieth are the figures that describe established full-scope and subspecialty practice in this state.

It removes the marginal penalty entirely. Michigan taxes income at a flat 4.25%, so call income, productivity bonuses and partnership distributions that carry a physician from the $209,650 median toward the $422,390 top decile are taxed at exactly the same rate as base salary — unlike the progressive high-rate states where much of the national median is set. The one adjustment to make is municipal, since several Michigan cities levy a local income tax on residents.

Through the Michigan Board of Medicine within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs: a degree from an accredited medical school, completion of accredited postgraduate training, the USMLE or COMLEX examination sequence and a controlled-substances registration, with continuing education at renewal. For obstetrics and gynaecology, completion of an accredited residency and American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology certification are what hospital credentialing committees require, even though certification is not itself a LARA licensure condition.

SOC 29-1218 counts every physician whose primary role is obstetrics and gynaecology, regardless of how they practise. In Michigan that includes part-time and gynaecology-only practitioners, academic faculty on institutional scales, employed hospital physicians, private-group partners and subspecialists — arrangements whose compensation differs by a factor of three. The $209,650 median is the midpoint of that mixture. It is not the salary of a typical full-scope Michigan obstetrician, which is better represented by the $284,810 seventy-fifth percentile.

The 28.4% gap is real in the data but it is not a like-for-like comparison of the same job. States with smaller, more uniformly employed OB-GYN workforces produce tighter distributions and higher medians; Michigan's 880-physician workforce at 1.46 times the national concentration is broad and varied, which pulls the middle down. A physician negotiating in Michigan should treat the percentile most like their own arrangement as the benchmark, and use specialty compensation surveys alongside this page.

Call burden and subspecialty, then geography. Full-scope obstetric practice with overnight and weekend labour coverage pays materially above gynaecology-only work, and Michigan's obstetric unit closures in rural counties have concentrated that call into fewer hospitals, raising its value where it remains. Subspecialty practice — maternal-fetal medicine, gynaecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology — is what reaches the $422,390 top decile. Geography contributes the rest: Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood at $250,680 pays roughly 20% above Detroit-Warren-Dearborn at $209,550 for broadly comparable work.