Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,081
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$11,299
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,592
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
$55,380
Kept after tax
$44,081
Worth in national money
$44,592
State rank
13
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Illinois pays this job a middle wage of $55,380, ranking 13 of 47 states and sitting about 7.89% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 299 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 $55,380, tax leaves $44,081, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $44,592 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $55,050.
- Illinois's median for structural metal fabricators and fitters is $55,380, about 7.89% above the national figure and 13 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Structural metal fabricators and fitters ranks 299 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 structural metal fabricators and fitters — median $55,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $44,081 retained, $44,592 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $55,050 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,480 |
| This salary | $55,380 |
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 | $44,081 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,678 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,443 |
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 | $52,148 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,164 |
| 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 $55,380. The published range is $36,960 up to $72,480, 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 $44,081, worked from $55,380. 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 299 of 494.
- Two cautions on $44,592, the adjusted value of that $55,380 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 299 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for structural metal fabricators and fitters in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,960 to $72,480. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Illinois take-home of $44,081, on $55,380 for work ranking 299 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 299 of 494 in the state.
- This $44,592 adjusted figure, worked from $55,380, 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 299 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 299 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $36,960 and the top tenth $72,480, so most people doing this work in Illinois sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $44,592 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $44,081 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,960 to $72,480) 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 $44,592 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 $44,081 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.