Medical and Health Services Managers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$86,049
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$31,801
27.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,045
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
$117,850
Kept after tax
$86,049
Worth in national money
$87,045
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Illinois is 27 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $117,850. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 494 occupations Illinois reports, this job comes in at 40 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $117,850 the take-home is $86,049, which is worth about $87,045 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $139,160, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Illinois ranks 27 of 51 for medical and health services managers at $117,850. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Medical and health services managers ranks 40 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 medical and health services managers on its $117,850 median: $86,049 retained after tax becomes $87,045 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $139,160 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Medical and Health Services Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $75,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $117,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $227,180 |
| This salary | $117,850 |
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 | $86,049 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $91,737 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,359 |
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 | $109,764 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,165 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $117,850 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $75,920 and the ninetieth is $227,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $86,049 take-home in Illinois comes from $117,850. 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 40 of 494.
- Two cautions on $87,045, the adjusted value of that $117,850 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 40 of 494 locally.
- The Illinois median of $117,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $75,920 to $227,180. 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 $86,049, from $117,850, 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 40 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 51 for it.
- This $87,045 adjusted figure, worked from $117,850, 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 40 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 40 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 $139,160 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $75,920 at the bottom tenth to $227,180 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 $87,045 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 $86,049 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 $139,160. 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 ($75,920) and the ninetieth ($227,180) 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 $87,045 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 $86,049 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.