Dental Laboratory Technicians in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,065
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$10,315
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,541
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
$51,380
Kept after tax
$41,065
Worth in national money
$41,541
State rank
13
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Illinois's middle earner gets $51,380, putting the state 13 of 46 — about 3.57% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 313 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 $51,380, tax leaves $41,065, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $41,541 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $53,070, since top earners drag the number up.
- For dental laboratory technicians, Illinois sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $51,380, ranking 13 of 46 and running about 3.57% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Dental laboratory technicians ranks 313 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 dental laboratory technicians — median $51,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $41,065 retained, $41,541 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $53,070 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Dental Laboratory Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $67,150 |
| This salary | $51,380 |
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 | $41,065 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,464 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,186 |
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 | $48,395 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,854 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,380 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,120 and the ninetieth is $67,150 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,065 take-home in Illinois comes from $51,380. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 313 of 494.
- Two cautions on $41,541, the adjusted value of that $51,380 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 313 of 494 locally.
- The Illinois median of $51,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,120 to $67,150. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $41,065, from $51,380, assumes a single Illinois filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 313 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 46 for it.
- This $41,541 adjusted figure, worked from $51,380, 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 313 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 313 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 $53,070, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,120 at the tenth percentile, $67,150 at the ninetieth.
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 $41,541 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 $41,065 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 $53,070. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,120 to $67,150) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Illinois rather than a national figure.
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 $41,541 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 $41,065 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.