Administrative Services Managers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,861
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$27,999
26.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,775
Illinois costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Illinois — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$106,860
Kept after tax
$78,861
Worth in national money
$79,775
State rank
30
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays this job around $106,860 at the midpoint, 30 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 494 occupations Illinois reports, this job comes in at 53 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $106,860, tax leaves $78,861, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,775 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $114,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- For administrative services managers the Illinois median is $106,860, ranking 30 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Administrative services managers ranks 53 of 494 occupations by median in Illinois, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for administrative services managers — median $106,860 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $78,861 retained, $79,775 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $114,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Administrative Services Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $106,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $175,690 |
| This salary | $106,860 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Illinois | $78,861 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,006 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,674 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $99,547 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,218 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of administrative services managers in Illinois earn under $106,860 and half over. The published range runs $55,410 at the tenth percentile to $175,690 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Illinois the take-home figure of $78,861, from $106,860, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 53 of 494 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $79,775 uses one figure for the whole of Illinois. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 494 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 53.
- Figures are distribution medians for administrative services managers in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $55,410 to $175,690; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Illinois is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $78,861 from $106,860. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 53 of 494 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $79,775, worked from $106,860, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Illinois address, on work sitting at 53 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $114,940, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $55,410 at the bottom tenth to $175,690 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $79,775.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Illinois's own levy, $78,861 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Illinois is $114,940. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($55,410) and the ninetieth ($175,690) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Illinois's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $79,775 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $78,861 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Illinois income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.