Michigan order brief
Published local guides: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Saginaw, Sterling Heights, Traverse City, Warren.
First decision
Michigan's statewide minimum wage rose to $13.73 an hour on January 1, 2026 (tipped floor $5.49 an hour, topped up by tips to $13.73), the wage floor for any event crew working an Ann Arbor booking.
Published references
Role references currently span $30.50–$54/hr. Each number below links to the city row that publishes it.
Worksite evidence
Huntington Place (current name confirmed on the venue's own site; formerly Cobo Center, then TCF Center) runs roughly 723,000 sq ft of exhibition space across five halls on the Detroit riverfront, the footprint crews use to size load-in staffing for an OEM reveal or trade-show floor coming in off the river dock.
The Flint Institute of Music operates five venues and programs including the Whiting Auditorium, opened in October 1967, the Capitol Theatre, the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Flint Repertory Theatre, and the Flint School of Performing Arts, producing hundreds of performances a year, per FIM's own site.
DeVos Place's exhibit hall is a confirmed 162,000 square feet of column-free space, divisible into 3 rooms. That is the number to scale dock crew and load-in schedules against for the convention and beer-festival dates stacked at this venue each fall.
