Surveying and Mapping Technicians in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,657
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$11,813
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,186
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
$57,470
Kept after tax
$45,657
Worth in national money
$46,186
State rank
20
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Illinois pays surveying and mapping technicians around $57,470 at the midpoint, 20 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Surveying and mapping technicians ranks 291 among 494 occupations Illinois publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,470, tax leaves $45,657, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $46,186 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,110, since top earners drag the number up.
- For surveying and mapping technicians the Illinois median is $57,470, ranking 20 of 50 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.
- Position 291 of 494 in Illinois places surveying and mapping technicians 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 surveying and mapping technicians — median $57,470 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $45,657 retained, $46,186 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,110 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Surveying and Mapping Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,440 |
| This salary | $57,470 |
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 | $45,657 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,357 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,577 |
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 | $54,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,326 |
| 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 $57,470. The published range is $42,560 up to $81,440, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $45,657 take-home in Illinois comes from $57,470. 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 291 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $46,186, the adjusted value of that $57,470 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 291 of 494 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for surveying and mapping technicians in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,560 to $81,440. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $45,657, from $57,470, 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 291 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $46,186 — the adjusted value of that $57,470 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 291 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 $60,110 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $42,560 and the top tenth $81,440, 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 $46,186 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, $45,657 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 $60,110. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,560 to $81,440) 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 $46,186 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 $45,657 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.