Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,739
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$18,411
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,442
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
$79,150
Kept after tax
$60,739
Worth in national money
$61,442
State rank
29
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays this job around $79,150 at the midpoint, 29 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 149 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 $79,150, tax leaves $60,739, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $61,442 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $78,320.
- For nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary the Illinois median is $79,150, ranking 29 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary ranks 149 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 nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary — median $79,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $60,739 retained, $61,442 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $78,320 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,220 |
| This salary | $79,150 |
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 | $60,739 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,512 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,945 |
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 | $73,787 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,831 |
| 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 nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Illinois earn under $79,150 and half over. The published range runs $47,690 at the tenth percentile to $103,220 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 $60,739, worked from $79,150. 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 149 of 494.
- Two cautions on $61,442, the adjusted value of that $79,150 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 149 of 494 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,690 to $103,220; 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 $60,739, on $79,150 for work ranking 149 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 149 of 494 in the state.
- This $61,442 adjusted figure, worked from $79,150, 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 149 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 149 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $47,690 and the top tenth $103,220, so most people doing this work in Illinois sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $61,442.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Illinois's own levy, $60,739 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,690 to $103,220) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Illinois rather than a national figure.
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 $61,442 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 $60,739 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.