First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,218
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$12,322
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,765
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
$59,540
Kept after tax
$47,218
Worth in national money
$47,765
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Illinois pays this job a middle wage of $59,540, ranking 15 of 51 states and sitting about 6.44% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 278 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 $59,540, tax leaves $47,218, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,765 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $63,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Illinois's median for first-line supervisors of security workers is $59,540, about 6.44% above the national figure and 15 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- First-line supervisors of security workers ranks 278 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 first-line supervisors of security workers — median $59,540 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $47,218 retained, $47,765 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $63,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,020 |
| This salary | $59,540 |
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 | $47,218 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,020 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,710 |
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 | $56,052 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,486 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Illinois earn less than $59,540. The published range is $38,820 up to $95,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Illinois the take-home figure of $47,218, from $59,540, 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 278 of 494 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $47,765, the adjusted value of that $59,540 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 278 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of security workers in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,820 to $95,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Illinois is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,218 from $59,540. 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 278 of 494 locally.
- This $47,765 adjusted figure, worked from $59,540, 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 278 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 278 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 $63,770 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,820, the highest tenth $95,020, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $47,765.
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 $47,218 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 $63,770. 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 ($38,820) and the ninetieth ($95,020) 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 $47,765 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 $47,218 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.