Is 40 dollars an hour good in Michigan?

$40 an hour is a strong wage in Michigan: at 40 hours a week it works out to roughly $83,000 a year, comfortably above CostLiving’s moderate lifestyle benchmark for the state ($3,250 per person per month, or $39,000 a year). After federal and Michigan state tax (a flat 4.25 percent), $83,000 nets roughly $63,000 to $65,000, or about $5,300 a month. In Grand Rapids that leaves around $2,000 of monthly slack after moderate-tier costs, making it a comfortable single-person wage with room for savings, a workable two-person wage if shared, and well into comfortable-tier territory for one. Detroit suburbs and Lansing run similarly. For the full picture, see our Grand Rapids cost of living page.