Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,012
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$16,968
22.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,684
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
$74,980
Kept after tax
$58,012
Worth in national money
$58,684
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Illinois is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $74,980, which ranks 16 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 7.13% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 182 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $74,980 the take-home is $58,012, which is worth about $58,684 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $87,060, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Illinois ranks 16 of 51 states publishing a median for property, real estate, and community association managers, at $74,980 — about 7.13% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Property, real estate, and community association managers ranks 182 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.
- Illinois's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for property, real estate, and community association managers on its $74,980 median: $58,012 retained after tax becomes $58,684 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $87,060 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $143,200 |
| This salary | $74,980 |
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 | $58,012 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,578 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,685 |
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 | $69,910 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,471 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,980 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,570 and the ninetieth is $143,200 — 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 $58,012, worked from $74,980. 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 182 of 494.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,684 uses one figure for the whole of Illinois. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 494 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 182.
- The Illinois median of $74,980 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,570 to $143,200. 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 $58,012, on $74,980 for work ranking 182 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 182 of 494 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,684, worked from $74,980, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Illinois address, on work sitting at 182 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 $87,060 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $44,570, the highest tenth $143,200, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $58,684 in national terms.
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, $58,012 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.
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 $87,060. 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 ($44,570) and the ninetieth ($143,200) 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 $58,684 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 $58,012 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.