Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,339
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$17,671
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,027
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
$77,010
Kept after tax
$59,339
Worth in national money
$60,027
State rank
28
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays this job around $77,010 at the midpoint, 28 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 168 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $77,010, tax leaves $59,339, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $60,027 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $79,680, since top earners drag the number up.
- For claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators the Illinois median is $77,010, ranking 28 of 51 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.
- Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators ranks 168 of 494 occupations in Illinois by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators — median $77,010 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,339 retained, $60,027 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $79,680 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,010 |
| Top tenth earn over | $118,810 |
| This salary | $77,010 |
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 | $59,339 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,007 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,812 |
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 | $71,797 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,646 |
| 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 claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators in Illinois earn under $77,010 and half over. The published range runs $48,620 at the tenth percentile to $118,810 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Illinois the take-home figure of $59,339, from $77,010, 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 168 of 494 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $60,027, the adjusted value of that $77,010 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Illinois. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 168 of 494 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,620 to $118,810; 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 $59,339 from $77,010. 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 168 of 494 locally.
- This $60,027 adjusted figure, worked from $77,010, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 168 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 168 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $79,680, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $48,620 and the top tenth $118,810 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Illinois sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $60,027 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Illinois adds its own income tax on top — which is why $59,339 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $79,680. 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 ($48,620) and the ninetieth ($118,810) 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 $60,027 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 $59,339 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.