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Midland, MI
$2,425after tax and rent
Photo: Jake Novak / Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5
On a $83,730 household paycheck in Midland.
Modelled metro
Move Score
67
Each row is 0–100. The Move Score is their weighted average, rounded, and it stops at 99. Rent is only in Housing. Jobs is off when the paycheck is the same in every city. Schools is off when there are no kids.
The 5 rows that are on. Their weighted average is 67.0, and that is the score, rounded, up to 99. Rows that are off stay out. The percent on each row is its weight. Tap a row to see what it measures. How the score is weighted
Example household
Example: $83,730, same pay in every city · One adult, renting a 1-bedroom
These figures are projections built from available public data. Conditions change, and the numbers may not reflect current prices, taxes, or immigration rules. Check official sources before you make decisions.
After tax and rent
$2,425
Home city
Not picked
Salary
$83,730
Same everywhere
Stats
- Rent
- $1,127
- 2 bd median
- Take-home
- $5,298
- Per month
- Tax
- 24%
- Of pay
- Prices
- 6% below
- US, besides rent
Next
$2,425 / mo
The month
One earner. 1 bd.
See full breakdown
- Taxes$1,679
- Rent$947
- Other$1,926
- Left$2,425
Pay and tax, per year
- Gross household pay
- $83,730
- Federal income tax
- −$9,591
- Social Security and Medicare
- −$6,405
- State income tax (MI)
- −$3,321
- City / county wage tax
- −$837
- Take-home pay
- $63,576
- Effective tax rate
- 24.1%
Living costs, per month
- Rent, 1br
- $947
- Groceries
- $378
- Getting around
- $557
- Healthcare
- $425
- Utilities and internet
- $236
- Everything else
- $330
- Total spending
- $2,873
After tax and rent
$2,425 left/mo
Working remotely
If the paycheck stays the same
One adult, one bedroom, $120,000 held flat in every city. That leaves $4,393 a month here after tax and rent. One-bedroom rent in that math is $947.
- Work from home
- 10.9% of workers
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Home internet
- 71.1% of households
- Cable, fiber optic, or DSL
- Paid to move, remote job
- No open remote grant on this metro
Worked-from-home share is from ACS 2023 5-year. Internet is households with cable, fiber optic, or DSL, from ACS 2023 5-year.
The place
24 min commute. A car per adult.
- Weather
- Not shown for this metro.
- Getting around
- A car per adult
- Average commute
- 24 minutes each way
- Size
- 84k people
- Buying instead
- Median home $184,300. About $1,404/mo with 20% down.
- Taxes
- Michigan income tax is a flat 4.25%, plus a 1.00% city wage tax. Sales tax 6.0%, property tax 1.50%.
Schools
- Students
- 12,190
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
- Districts
- 6
- Midland Public Schools7,380 students
- Bullock Creek School District1,673 students
- Meridian Public Schools1,374 students
- Coleman Community Schools559 students
- Windover High School102 students
NCES 2024-2025. The district count is every public district in the metro. The names are the largest 5.
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Take-home by job in Midland
- Registered nurse
- Software developer
- Elementary school teacher
- High school teacher
- Accountant / auditor
- Truck driver (heavy)
- Electrician
- Civil engineer
- Lawyer
- Police officer
- Financial analyst
- Pharmacist
- Product / project manager
- Physical therapist
- Nurse practitioner
- Physician
- Construction manager
- Data scientist
- Firefighter
- Mechanical engineer
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Questions
How is take-home pay in Midland calculated?
Midland is in Michigan, which taxes wage income, plus a local wage tax of 1.00%. Take-home is a local salary minus federal tax, payroll tax, and that state tax. Leftover is what remains after rent and bills.
What does rent cost in Midland?
About $947 for a one-bedroom and $1,127 for a two-bedroom in Midland, MI. Midland averages 175 sunny days, a July high of 82°F, and a 24-minute commute.
How do I compare Midland with another city?
Put Midland next to another city on the same job and household. The gap is the tax bill and the rent.
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