Postsecondary Teachers, All Other in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,256
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$12,334
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,803
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
$59,590
Kept after tax
$47,256
Worth in national money
$47,803
State rank
41
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Illinois. The middle earner gets $59,590. That is 41 of 48 states, and about 23.25% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 277 among 494 occupations Illinois publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $59,590, tax leaves $47,256, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,803 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $62,970, since top earners drag the number up.
- For postsecondary teachers, all other, Illinois sits in the lower band at $59,590, ranking 41 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 23.25%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 277 of 494 in Illinois places postsecondary teachers, 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.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for postsecondary teachers, all other — median $59,590 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $47,256 retained, $47,803 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $62,970 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,510 |
| This salary | $59,590 |
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 | $47,256 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,061 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,713 |
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 | $56,099 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,490 |
| 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 $59,590. The published range is $31,200 up to $108,510, 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 $47,256, worked from $59,590. 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 277 of 494.
- Two cautions on $47,803, the adjusted value of that $59,590 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 277 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for postsecondary teachers, all other in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,200 to $108,510. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Illinois take-home of $47,256, on $59,590 for work ranking 277 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 277 of 494 in the state.
- This $47,803 adjusted figure, worked from $59,590, 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 277 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 277 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $62,970, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $31,200 and the top tenth $108,510 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $47,803.
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, $47,256 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $62,970. 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 ($31,200) and the ninetieth ($108,510) 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 $47,803 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 $47,256 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.