Out of Lansing metro area’s total workforce, almost 14% are remote workers, a pool leaned toward females, highly educated and dominated by Millennials and Gen Xers while keeping plenty of room for the emerging Gen Z. Hired mainly in the professional and business services and in education, health care and social assistance services, remote workers here earn less than the national median.
Here are the main characteristics of the Lansing-East Lansing metro’s remote workforce:
The 32,195 remote workers in Greater Lansing make for 13.7% of the metro’s total workforce, the share standing right below the national average of 13.8%;
Gender: female remote workers dominate the market (58.5%), the Lansing metro area hosting the 2nd highest share of female teleworkers in the Midwest;
Generation: Greater Lansing’s remote workforce is predominantly Millennial workers (41.4%), with Gen X coming in second (29%) and Boomers following up (13.6). Also, the region hosts the highest share of Gen Z remote workers in the Midwest, with 14.5% of the metro’s teleworkers belonging to this age group;
Income: 37.9% of Greater Lansing’s remote workers earn $75,000 or more, the median income of the region’s teleworkers standing at $61,847, which is significantly below the national median of $70,000;
Education: the majority of Greater Lansing’s remote workers have a Bachelor’s degree (58%);
Industry: the professional and business services sector (20.2%) and the educational, healthcare, and social assistance sector (20.2%) employ the largest shares of remote workers in Greater Lansing.
Nationally, 13.8% of the workforce were remote workers earning a $70,280 median income. Most of them were females (52.3%), Millennials (39.4%), graduates with a Bachelor’s degree or higher (59.8%) and employees in professional and business services (27.6%).
Methodology: Coworking Mag*, the sister website of CoworkingCafe and part of the Yardi Network, explored demographic, income, education, and industry data from the U.S. Census Bureau and IPUMS USA to profile the average remote worker in each of Midwestern United States’ MSAs with a population of more than 500,000.
