Radiologist Salary in Michigan 2026,
$485,920 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $485,920 a year, or $233.61 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 15.5% above the national median of $420,860. The band runs $82,250 at the 10th percentile to $558,760 at the 90th, with the median and the 75th percentile both at $485,920. The published sample is about 360 radiologists, so treat the precision with care.

Because OEWS counts employees on payrolls, and radiology in Michigan is substantially organised through physician-owned groups whose members take practice profit rather than wages. A location quotient of 0.48 — under half the national employment rate in a state of this size — is the signature of that arrangement rather than evidence of a shortage. The consequence for this page is that the figures describe the payroll-employed portion of Michigan radiology, which is a minority of it.

Yes. Interpreting an imaging study for a patient in Michigan is the practice of medicine in Michigan and requires a licence issued through the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, wherever the radiologist physically sits. That matters here because Michigan's community and rural hospitals rely heavily on remote reading coverage, and every one of those reads must come from a Michigan-licensed physician — which keeps the state's radiology demand inside its own licensed pool.

Not what it appears to. Ann Arbor is the only Michigan metro with a published radiologist median, and it is $82,250 — exactly the state's 10th percentile. Ann Arbor is a major academic medical centre with a large radiology training programme, and residents and fellows are counted in the same occupational estimate as attending radiologists. In a small metro sample dominated by trainees, the median lands at training pay. It is a composition artefact, not a statement about what an Ann Arbor attending earns.

Two layers rather than one. The state income tax is a flat 4.25%, which at these incomes is far more favourable than the progressive top rates in high-tax states. But Michigan is one of the few states where cities levy their own income tax as well: Detroit charges residents 2.4% and non-residents 1.2%, and Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint and Saginaw operate their own at lower rates. At a $485,920 median the difference between living inside and outside Detroit is a real annual amount.

As a description of one segment rather than of the market. The employed and group-salaried tier is what OEWS sees, and within it the compression of the median and 75th percentile onto the same $485,920 figure is genuinely informative: it says a large block of Michigan's payroll radiologists are paid within a narrow range. What the data cannot show is the physician-owned practice income that a location quotient of 0.48 implies is substantial, nor any metro variation, since Detroit-Warren-Dearborn carries no published figure. A radiologist evaluating Michigan should treat these numbers as a floor and gather practice-level intelligence separately.

The sample is small, one metro row is missing entirely, and the one that is published is a training artefact. The median and 75th percentile coinciding means the figure marks a concentration point rather than a centre. The wage measure excludes partnership distributions, per-study reading arrangements and after-hours differentials, all significant in radiology and likely the larger part of what Michigan radiologists earn given the low employment concentration. The 15.5% premium over the national median is real for the employed tier and should not be generalised further.

Practice structure first — the difference between salaried employment and group partnership is what a 0.48 location quotient implies most Michigan radiologists have already chosen, and it is largely invisible in this data. Subspecialty second, with interventional radiology and neuroradiology carrying the highest value. Reading volume third, since Michigan's community and rural hospital coverage generates substantial remote reading demand that must be filled by Michigan-licensed physicians. And residence fourth, given the city income tax layer that Detroit and several other Michigan cities impose.