Order Clerks in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,268
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$9,402
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,711
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
$47,670
Kept after tax
$38,268
Worth in national money
$38,711
State rank
17
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays order clerks around $47,670 at the midpoint, 17 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 361 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 $47,670, tax leaves $38,268, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,711 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $48,390, since top earners drag the number up.
- For order clerks the Illinois median is $47,670, ranking 17 of 48 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.
- Order clerks ranks 361 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 order clerks — median $47,670 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $38,268 retained, $38,711 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,390 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Order Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,630 |
| This salary | $47,670 |
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 | $38,268 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,483 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,949 |
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 | $44,913 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,566 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,670 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,000 and the ninetieth is $60,630 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Illinois's $38,268, worked from $47,670. 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 361 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $38,711, the adjusted value of that $47,670 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 361 of 494 in the state.
- The Illinois median of $47,670 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,000 to $60,630. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Illinois take-home of $38,268, on $47,670 for work ranking 361 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 361 of 494 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $38,711 — the adjusted value of that $47,670 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 361 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,000 at the tenth percentile, $60,630 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,711.
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 $38,268 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,000 to $60,630) 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 $38,711 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 $38,268 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.