Sales Managers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$109,858
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$45,422
29.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$111,131
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
$155,280
Kept after tax
$109,858
Worth in national money
$111,131
State rank
12
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Illinois pays sales managers a middle wage of $155,280, ranking 12 of 50 states and sitting about 4.73% above the national middle.
- Within Illinois this is well-paid work. Of 494 occupations with published figures in the state, sales managers ranks 12 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $155,280, tax leaves $109,858, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $111,131 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $167,030, since top earners drag the number up.
- Illinois's median for sales managers is $155,280, about 4.73% above the national figure and 12 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Illinois publishes a median for, sales managers sits 12 of 494 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for sales managers — median $155,280 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $109,858 retained, $111,131 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $167,030 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $78,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $155,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $282,890 |
| This salary | $155,280 |
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 | $109,858 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $117,400 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,682 |
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 | $144,246 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,765 |
| 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 sales managers in Illinois earn under $155,280 and half over. The published range runs $78,760 at the tenth percentile to $282,890 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $109,858 take-home in Illinois comes from $155,280. 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 12 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $111,131, the adjusted value of that $155,280 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 12 of 494 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for sales managers in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $78,760 to $282,890; 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.
- Retained pay of $109,858, from $155,280, 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 12 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $111,131 — the adjusted value of that $155,280 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 12 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $167,030, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $78,760 and the top tenth $282,890 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $111,131 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, $109,858 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $167,030. 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 ($78,760) and the ninetieth ($282,890) 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 $111,131 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 $109,858 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.