In 2024, MichAuto engaged Public Sector Consultants (PSC) to conduct an economic contribution study of Michigan’s mobility industry and each of its component clusters, including automotive manufacturing, transportation services, mobility support, and other transportation vehicles and products. This study builds on a previous economic contribution report conducted by PSC in 2021.

It includes an expanded definition to reflect the mobility industry’s evolving technology cluster and an enhanced methodology that more accurately captures direct contributions and the resulting ripple effects.

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PSC assisted MichAuto to augment the previous definition of the mobility sector to better capture technology- and innovation-forward activities. The expanded definition includes components of smart mobility, connected and automated vehicles, electrification, infrastructure, and R&D, and serves as the basis for assessing the economic contribution and related impacts of Michigan’s mobility sector. This report estimates the mobility industry’s economic contributions to the state via employment, labor income, value-added, and gross economic output.

Our report found that in 2022, Michigan’s mobility industry:

  • Directly employed nearly 631,000 workers statewide, which supported an additional 525,000 indirect and induced jobs, resulting in a total of almost 1.2 million jobs, or 20 percent of Michigan employment .
  • Directly and indirectly paid nearly $83 billion in compensation (salary and benefits for payroll employees and the income of self-employed and proprietors), at an average of $71,547.
  • Directly and indirectly contributed nearly $348 billion in gross economic output (the sum of value-added and total intermediate inputs), which is 27 percent of Michigan’s gross economic output.
  • Directly and indirectly generated more than $14 billion in state and local taxes.
  • Scenic and sightseeing transportation is also making a comeback — with an increase of 1,200 in direct employment — after travel and tourism’s hiatus during the pandemic years.