Managers, All Other in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$100,323
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$39,917
28.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$101,485
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
$140,240
Kept after tax
$100,323
Worth in national money
$101,485
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for managers, all other is strong here. Illinois's middle earner gets $140,240, putting the state 16 of 51 — about 1.17% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Illinois. It ranks 18 out of 494 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $140,240, tax leaves $100,323, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $101,485 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $155,400, since top earners drag the number up.
- For managers, all other, Illinois sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $140,240, ranking 16 of 51 and running about 1.17% 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.
- Within Illinois, managers, all other ranks 18 of 494 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for managers, all other — median $140,240 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $100,323 retained, $101,485 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $155,400 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Managers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $82,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $140,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $235,260 |
| This salary | $140,240 |
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 | $100,323 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $107,120 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,749 |
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 | $130,295 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,439 |
| 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 $140,240. The published range is $82,230 up to $235,260, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Illinois's $100,323, worked from $140,240. 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 18 of 494.
- Two cautions on $101,485, the adjusted value of that $140,240 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 18 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for managers, all other in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $82,230 to $235,260. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Illinois take-home of $100,323, on $140,240 for work ranking 18 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 18 of 494 in the state.
- This $101,485 adjusted figure, worked from $140,240, 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 18 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 18 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 $155,400 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $82,230 and the top tenth $235,260 — 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 $101,485 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 $100,323 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 $155,400. 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 ($82,230) and the ninetieth ($235,260) 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 $101,485 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 $100,323 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.