Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, updated through 2023 to include sexual orientation and gender identity, provides one of the more comprehensive state-level discrimination frameworks. Damages modeling in Michigan matters typically revolves around the state’s automotive and manufacturing sectors.
Automotive executive compensation
Big Three and tier-one executive compensation includes annual bonus, long-term performance awards tied to quality and financial metrics, and equity components that vary with company structure (public OEM versus privately-held supplier). Each component requires separate modeling.
Salaried and UAW workforce
Salaried automotive-professional plaintiffs face profit-sharing payouts with historical documentation available through public filings for publicly-traded employers. UAW-scale plaintiffs face contractually-specified compensation with COLA and productivity adjustments. The model reconstructs each from its source document rather than a blended average.
Worklife & discount-rate notes
Michigan's automotive, healthcare, higher-education, and advanced-manufacturing sectors produce distinct compensation profiles. Detroit-area automotive plaintiffs at Big Three OEMs and tier-one suppliers face UAW-scale compensation, salaried-professional structures with profit-sharing, and executive LTIPs with production-linked and market-performance components.
