Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,383
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$11,397
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,897
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
$55,780
Kept after tax
$44,383
Worth in national money
$44,897
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Illinois's middle earner gets $55,780, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 13.3% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 298 among 494 occupations Illinois publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $55,780 the take-home is $44,383, which is worth about $44,897 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $60,360, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other, Illinois sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $55,780, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 13.3% 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.
- Position 298 of 494 in Illinois places installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Illinois's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other on its $55,780 median: $44,383 retained after tax becomes $44,897 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $60,360 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $88,000 |
| This salary | $55,780 |
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 | $44,383 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,999 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,469 |
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 | $52,524 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,195 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $55,780 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,760 and the ninetieth is $88,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $44,383 take-home in Illinois comes from $55,780. 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 298 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $44,897, the adjusted value of that $55,780 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 298 of 494 in the state.
- The Illinois median of $55,780 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,760 to $88,000. 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 $44,383, from $55,780, 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 298 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $44,897 — the adjusted value of that $55,780 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 298 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 $60,360, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,760 and the top tenth $88,000 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $44,897 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 $44,383 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 $60,360. 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 ($38,760) and the ninetieth ($88,000) 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 $44,897 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 $44,383 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.