Best jobs in Kalamazoo, MI
The best-scoring occupations in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Kalamazoo, MI (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 774 scored occupations — show all 774show top 25
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
113
$70,700
+0.3%
29
126
$128,560
+1.9%
27
186
$44,200
-1.6%
24
217
$61,420
+3.1%
22
291
$59,870
+3.7%
19
400
$46,060
+6.3%
16
480
$38,820
-3.8%
14
481
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$45,320
+4.6%
14
508
$59,430
+2.3%
14
586
—†
-19.6%
12†
587
—†
-13.7%
12†
618
—†
+2.0%
11†
631
$44,440
-12.1%
11
665
—†
-1.1%
10†
680
$51,600
-4.3%
9
756
$38,500
-12.0%
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Live jobs in Kalamazoo, MI
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.