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Engine and Other Machine Assemblers · SOC 51-2031

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers Salary in the Detroit Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area

Figures describe the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Detroit city limits.

Median annual wage$64,820
Median hourly wage$31.17

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area earned a median of $64,820 per year ($31.17 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $41,920 at the 10th percentile to $77,750 at the 90th. BLS estimates 3,330 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Engine and Other Machine Assemblers in the Detroit metro area earn more than $64,820 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $49,220 and $76,880.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$41,920$49,220$64,820$76,880$77,750
Hourly$20.16$23.66$31.17$36.96$37.38

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Detroit metro areathis metro area
    $64,820
  • Michiganstate (MI)
    $60,950
  • United Statesnational
    $53,710

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +6% vs Michigan overall and +21% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$36,030$58,197$80,363$102,530Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $36,030Oklahoma City, OK — $37,680Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $40,360San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $40,650Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $40,800Springfield, MA — $41,110Kansas City, MO-KS — $45,060Worcester, MA — $46,160Columbia, MO — $46,500Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $46,620Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $46,950San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $47,090Jackson, MS — $47,270Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $47,350Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $47,370Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $47,620Winston-Salem, NC — $48,580Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $48,730Springfield, MO — $48,830Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $48,990Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,630Rochester, NY — $50,210Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $50,560San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $51,040Tulsa, OK — $51,770St. Louis, MO-IL — $51,920Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $53,570Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $55,340Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $58,550Richmond, VA — $59,570Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $59,600Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $61,340Ann Arbor, MI — $61,680New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $62,400Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $64,240Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $64,820Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $65,410Toledo, OH — $75,770Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $76,480Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $80,170Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $80,200Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $102,530

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Detroit metro area has the 7th-highest published median for this occupation among the 42 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Michigan

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for engine and other machine assemblers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Detroit metro areathis page
    $64,820
  • Ann Arbor metro area
    $61,680
  • Lansing metro area
    $59,600
  • Grand Rapids metro area
    $53,570
  • Muskegon metro area
    $40,360

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$49,240Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$50,460Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$45,400First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$75,490Machinists$59,310Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$39,790

Highest-paying metro areas for engine and other machine assemblerss · Highest-paying occupations in Detroit Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.