Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,811
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$29,559
26.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$82,758
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
$111,370
Kept after tax
$81,811
Worth in national money
$82,758
State rank
16
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Illinois sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $111,370, ranking 16 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 494 occupations Illinois reports, this job comes in at 45 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $111,370, tax leaves $81,811, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $82,758 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $116,190, since top earners drag the number up.
- Illinois occupies the middle band for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors: a median of $111,370, ranking 16 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 45 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.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors — median $111,370 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $81,811 retained, $82,758 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $116,190 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $111,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $158,220 |
| This salary | $111,370 |
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 | $81,811 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $87,179 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,955 |
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 | $103,740 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,607 |
| 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 health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Illinois earn under $111,370 and half over. The published range runs $63,170 at the tenth percentile to $158,220 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Illinois's $81,811, worked from $111,370. 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 45 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $82,758, the adjusted value of that $111,370 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 45 of 494 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $63,170 to $158,220; 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.
- The Illinois take-home of $81,811, on $111,370 for work ranking 45 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 45 of 494 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $82,758 — the adjusted value of that $111,370 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 45 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $116,190, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $63,170 at the bottom tenth to $158,220 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 $82,758 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 $81,811 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 $116,190. 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 ($63,170) and the ninetieth ($158,220) 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 $82,758 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 $81,811 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.