Pediatrician Salary in Michigan 2026,
$204,690 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Michigan figure is $204,690 a year, or $98.41 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $81,550 at the 10th percentile to $307,240 at the 90th and quartiles at $124,770 and $238,610. That is 2.5% below the national median of $210,040. The row is SOC 29-1221, Pediatricians, General — an exact match, though it counts residents alongside attendings.

Ann Arbor publishes $81,550, which is exactly Michigan's 10th percentile for this occupation. That is the teaching hospital effect: a metro whose paediatric physician count is dominated by residents and fellows will report a median that reflects training stipends rather than attending compensation. It is not evidence that practising paediatricians in Ann Arbor are paid poorly — it is evidence about who is being counted. Flint at $130,900 shows a milder version of the same pattern.

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood at $234,380, then Kalamazoo-Portage $232,880 and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn $218,000, with Flint $130,900 and Ann Arbor $81,550 far below for compositional reasons. The top three all publish above the state median of $204,690, and Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo also sit outside the heaviest city income tax layer, which strengthens them further in net terms.

Yes. Michigan participates in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which provides an expedited route to licensure for physicians already licensed in another participating state who meet the eligibility criteria including board certification. It is not a multistate licence — a separate Michigan licence still issues — but the process is considerably faster than a standard application. Hospital credentialing and payer enrolment still follow and are frequently the longer part of the timeline.

Composition rather than compensation. A location quotient of 1.20 across 1,340 pediatricians tells you Michigan employs the specialty heavily, and the metro table tells you a large share of that count sits in academic centres where residents are on the same SOC row as attendings. Strip out Ann Arbor at $81,550 and Flint at $130,900 and the remaining published metros — $234,380, $232,880 and $218,000 — sit at or above the national figure of $210,040.

By treating it as a composition signal rather than a wage. Ann Arbor's $81,550 is precisely Michigan's 10th percentile for this occupation, which is close to a mathematical statement that the metro's paediatric physician population is concentrated at the training end of the distribution. Large academic medical centres employ residents and fellows in numbers comparable to or exceeding their attending staff, and OEWS counts them all as employed physicians on SOC 29-1221. The correct inference is not that Ann Arbor pays badly but that the published Ann Arbor figure is measuring a different population than the Grand Rapids figure is.

That Michigan's practising paediatric market is competitive and geographically distributed. Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood at $234,380 and Kalamazoo-Portage at $232,880 both publish above the national median of $210,040, and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn at $218,000 does too. These are mid-sized markets with substantial health systems and, in the case of the western Michigan metros, real difficulty recruiting general paediatricians against coastal competition. That recruitment pressure is what produces figures above the national median in a state whose overall median sits below it, and it is where the opportunity is.

Constrained on the demand side and stable on the supply side, which is an uncomfortable combination. Birth rates have fallen, which reduces the paediatric patient base directly, while the complexity of paediatric care — behavioural health, chronic conditions, developmental services — has increased the work per patient. The pro-rated figure of about 40 openings a year in Michigan is small. The specialty's resilience comes from the difficulty of recruiting into non-metropolitan practice, which sustains offers in exactly the markets that publish above national here, and from subspecialty demand which is unmet in most states.