Compliance Officers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,654
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$18,896
23.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,369
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
$80,550
Kept after tax
$61,654
Worth in national money
$62,369
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays compliance officers around $80,550 at the midpoint, 19 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 494 occupations Illinois reports figures for, this is number 136.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $80,550, tax leaves $61,654, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $62,369 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $87,900, since top earners drag the number up.
- For compliance officers the Illinois median is $80,550, ranking 19 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.
- In Illinois's occupational distribution, compliance officers sits at 136 of 494 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for compliance officers — median $80,550 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $61,654 retained, $62,369 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $87,900 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Compliance Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $80,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $132,290 |
| This salary | $80,550 |
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 | $61,654 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,497 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,032 |
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 | $75,088 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,951 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $80,550 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,040 and the ninetieth is $132,290 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Illinois's $61,654, worked from $80,550. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 136 of 494.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $62,369 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 136.
- The Illinois median of $80,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,040 to $132,290. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Illinois take-home of $61,654, on $80,550 for work ranking 136 of 494 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 136 of 494 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $62,369, worked from $80,550, 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 136 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $87,900 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $50,040 at the bottom tenth to $132,290 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Illinois is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $62,369 in national terms.
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 $61,654 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 $87,900. 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 ($50,040) and the ninetieth ($132,290) 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 $62,369 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 $61,654 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.