November 10, 2025
In September 2025, Michigan employers posted 175,000 online job advertisements. This marked a reduction of 7,700 (-4.2 percent) ads from August 2025 and an increase of 7,700 (+4.6 percent) compared to September 2024. Of the total online job ads, 72,900 were newly posted, meaning that they did not carry over from the previous month. September had just over 4,200 more new monthly ads than August despite the reduction in total ads over the month.
In September, the Educational and health services industry sector accounted for the largest portion of job advertisements (20.8 percent). This was followed by the Trade, transportation, and utilities (19.0 percent) and Professional and business services (13.3 percent) industry sectors.
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Source: Help Wanted OnLine, Lightcast Developer
According to the American Community Survey (ACS) data, Management; Production; and Transportation and material moving occupations employ the largest shares of veterans in the Michigan labor force. In September, these occupations had the third, sixth, and tenth most job postings of all occupation groups, respectively. Together, advertisements for these occupations totaled 35,200 statewide. This was a decrease of 770 (-2.1 percent) ads from August 2025 and an increase of nearly 3,200 (+10.0 percent) from September 2024.
Source: Help Wanted OnLine, Lightcast Developer
Job advertisements for these three occupational groups were primarily concentrated in Michigan’s three most populous regions: the Detroit Metro, West, and Southeast prosperity regions. Advertisements for these groups also made up the largest portion of total advertisements in Michigan’s West (22.8 percent), Southwest (22.4 percent), and Upper Peninsula (20.0 percent) prosperity regions.
Employers for these occupations requested similar baseline skills. Baseline skills are general, non-specialized skills that cut across a broad range of occupations. The baseline skills most frequently requested for these occupations were communication (39.9 percent), customer service (30.7 percent), and management (29.9 percent).
Just over half of the jobs posted for these occupation groups listed a minimum education requirement. A minimum education requirement lists the lowest level of education an employer will accept, but employers may prefer a higher level than what is listed. Of the jobs that listed a minimum education required, 52.9 percent requested a high school diploma or GED, 5.1 percent requested an associate degree, and 42.0 percent requested a bachelor’s degree or higher.
According to the Michigan statewide long-term projections spanning 2022-2032, these occupation groups are projected to experience different employment outcomes. Through 2032, employment in Management and Transportation and material moving occupations in Michigan is projected to grow by 0.4 percent and 0.2 percent annually, on average. Conversely, employment in Production occupations is projected to decrease by 0.6 percent annually, on average. Regardless of projected employment decline, Production occupations are still expected to have just under 43,500 openings annually in the state.
More information about Michigan job advertisements can be found using the Michigan Online Job Advertisement Dashboard.
