Skincare Specialists in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,504
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$8,826
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,926
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
$45,330
Kept after tax
$36,504
Worth in national money
$36,926
State rank
22
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays skincare specialists around $45,330 at the midpoint, 22 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 494 occupations Illinois publishes, skincare specialists lands at 395. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $45,330, tax leaves $36,504, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $36,926 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $48,500, since top earners drag the number up.
- For skincare specialists the Illinois median is $45,330, ranking 22 of 49 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.
- Within Illinois, this work ranks 395 of 494 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Illinois sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for skincare specialists — median $45,330 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $36,504 retained, $36,926 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,500 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Skincare Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,920 |
| This salary | $45,330 |
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 | $36,504 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,603 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,798 |
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 | $42,718 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,384 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,330 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,200 and the ninetieth is $63,920 — 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 $36,504, worked from $45,330. 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 395 of 494.
- Two cautions on $36,926, the adjusted value of that $45,330 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 395 of 494 locally.
- The Illinois median of $45,330 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,200 to $63,920. 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 $36,504, on $45,330 for work ranking 395 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 395 of 494 in the state.
- This $36,926 adjusted figure, worked from $45,330, 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 395 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 395 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 $48,500 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $31,200 at the bottom tenth to $63,920 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Illinois sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $36,926 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Illinois then takes its own share, leaving $36,504.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $48,500. 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 ($63,920) 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 $36,926 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 $36,504 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.