Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,030
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$9,650
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,482
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
$48,680
Kept after tax
$39,030
Worth in national money
$39,482
State rank
13
of 49 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 $48,680, ranking 13 of 49 states and sitting about 4.96% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Illinois, this sits in the middle: 340 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 $48,680, tax leaves $39,030, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,482 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $48,330.
- Illinois's median for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping is $48,680, about 4.96% above the national figure and 13 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping ranks 340 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 weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping — median $48,680 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,030 retained, $39,482 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,330 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,030 |
| This salary | $48,680 |
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 | $39,030 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,294 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,013 |
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 | $45,861 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,644 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,680 as a midpoint for Illinois, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,200 and the ninetieth is $61,030 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Illinois the take-home figure of $39,030, from $48,680, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 340 of 494 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,482, the adjusted value of that $48,680 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 340 of 494 locally.
- The Illinois median of $48,680 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,200 to $61,030. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Illinois is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,030 from $48,680. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 340 of 494 locally.
- This $39,482 adjusted figure, worked from $48,680, 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 340 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 340 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $31,200 and the top tenth $61,030, 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 $39,482 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 $39,030.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,200 to $61,030) 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 $39,482 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 $39,030 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.