Financial and Investment Analysts in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,147
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$26,033
25.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,017
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
$101,180
Kept after tax
$75,147
Worth in national money
$76,017
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Illinois's middle earner gets $101,180, putting the state 16 of 51 — about 1.52% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 494 occupations Illinois reports, this job comes in at 72 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $101,180 the take-home is $75,147, which is worth about $76,017 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $110,820, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For financial and investment analysts, Illinois sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $101,180, ranking 16 of 51 and running about 1.52% 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.
- Financial and investment analysts ranks 72 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.
- Illinois's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for financial and investment analysts on its $101,180 median: $75,147 retained after tax becomes $76,017 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $110,820 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Financial and Investment Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,090 |
| This salary | $101,180 |
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 | $75,147 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,010 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,319 |
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 | $94,267 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,729 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,180 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $64,700 and the ninetieth is $166,090 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Illinois the take-home figure of $75,147, from $101,180, 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 72 of 494 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $76,017, the adjusted value of that $101,180 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 72 of 494 locally.
- The Illinois median of $101,180 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $64,700 to $166,090. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Illinois is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $75,147 from $101,180. 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 72 of 494 locally.
- This $76,017 adjusted figure, worked from $101,180, 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 72 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 72 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 $110,820, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $64,700, the highest tenth $166,090, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $76,017 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Illinois then takes its own share, leaving $75,147.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $110,820. 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 ($64,700) and the ninetieth ($166,090) 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 $76,017 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 $75,147 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.