diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2748f7ee209..67884d4033d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ members = [
     "clients/dpd-client",
     "clients/gateway-client",
     "clients/installinator-artifact-client",
+    "clients/mg-admin-client",
     "clients/nexus-client",
     "clients/oxide-client",
     "clients/oximeter-client",
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@ members = [
     "dev-tools/omicron-dev",
     "dev-tools/thing-flinger",
     "dev-tools/xtask",
-    "mg-admin-client",
     "dns-server",
     "end-to-end-tests",
     "gateway-cli",
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ default-members = [
     "clients/oximeter-client",
     "clients/sled-agent-client",
     "clients/wicketd-client",
+    "clients/mg-admin-client",
     "common",
     "dev-tools/crdb-seed",
     "dev-tools/omdb",
     "dev-tools/omicron-dev",
     "dev-tools/thing-flinger",
     "dev-tools/xtask",
-    "mg-admin-client",
     "dns-server",
     "gateway-cli",
     "gateway-test-utils",
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ macaddr = { version = "1.0.1", features = ["serde_std"] }
 mime_guess = "2.0.4"
 mockall = "0.11"
 newtype_derive = "0.1.6"
-mg-admin-client = { path = "mg-admin-client" }
+mg-admin-client = { path = "clients/mg-admin-client" }
 nexus-client = { path = "clients/nexus-client" }
 nexus-db-model = { path = "nexus/db-model" }
 nexus-db-queries = { path = "nexus/db-queries" }
diff --git a/mg-admin-client/Cargo.toml b/clients/mg-admin-client/Cargo.toml
similarity index 100%
rename from mg-admin-client/Cargo.toml
rename to clients/mg-admin-client/Cargo.toml
diff --git a/mg-admin-client/build.rs b/clients/mg-admin-client/build.rs
similarity index 86%
rename from mg-admin-client/build.rs
rename to clients/mg-admin-client/build.rs
index 25dc1a01286..dcc7ae61cbc 100644
--- a/mg-admin-client/build.rs
+++ b/clients/mg-admin-client/build.rs
@@ -16,22 +16,23 @@ use std::path::Path;
 
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
     // Find the current maghemite repo commit from our package manifest.
-    let manifest = fs::read_to_string("../package-manifest.toml")
-        .context("failed to read ../package-manifest.toml")?;
-    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=../package-manifest.toml");
+    let manifest = fs::read_to_string("../../package-manifest.toml")
+        .context("failed to read ../../package-manifest.toml")?;
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../package-manifest.toml");
 
     let config: Config = toml::from_str(&manifest)
-        .context("failed to parse ../package-manifest.toml")?;
+        .context("failed to parse ../../package-manifest.toml")?;
     let mg = config
         .packages
         .get("mgd")
-        .context("missing mgd package in ../package-manifest.toml")?;
+        .context("missing mgd package in ../../package-manifest.toml")?;
 
     let local_path = match &mg.source {
         PackageSource::Prebuilt { commit, .. } => {
             // Report a relatively verbose error if we haven't downloaded the requisite
             // openapi spec.
-            let local_path = format!("../out/downloads/mg-admin-{commit}.json");
+            let local_path =
+                format!("../../out/downloads/mg-admin-{commit}.json");
             if !Path::new(&local_path).exists() {
                 bail!("{local_path} doesn't exist; rerun `tools/ci_download_maghemite_openapi` (after updating `tools/maghemite_mg_openapi_version` if the maghemite commit in package-manifest.toml has changed)");
             }
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
         PackageSource::Manual => {
             let local_path =
-                "../out/downloads/mg-admin-manual.json".to_string();
+                "../../out/downloads/mg-admin-manual.json".to_string();
             if !Path::new(&local_path).exists() {
                 bail!("{local_path} doesn't exist, please copy manually built mg-admin.json there!");
             }
diff --git a/mg-admin-client/src/lib.rs b/clients/mg-admin-client/src/lib.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from mg-admin-client/src/lib.rs
rename to clients/mg-admin-client/src/lib.rs