Bloomington, IL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Bloomington, IL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Bloomington, IL moved from $51,270 in May 2024 to $53,140 in May 2025 (+3.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Bloomington, IL sits +0.5 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Fast Food and Counter Workers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Bloomington, IL
Fast Food and Counter Workers publishes $31,200 here versus $31,200 nationally (+0.0%; 2,430metro-area jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$31,200 in Bloomington, IL sits 0.0% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,430 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Bloomington, IL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 14010 · Bloomington, IL $67K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-HIGH #75/528
- RPP-LOW 93.5
- OCC-MID 268 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $357K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Peoria, IL
- BOOK-MOST 258 rows · May 2025
Read with Peoria, IL ($23 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Bloomington, IL
Employment scale inside Bloomington, IL's top-pay list
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Bloomington, IL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,570 jobs · $123,320
- 2. Financial Managers 1,400 jobs · $156,240
- 3. Data Scientists 590 jobs · $120,760
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 570 jobs · $169,720
- 5. Lawyers 530 jobs · $124,100
- 6. Sales Managers 290 jobs · $154,300
- 7. Managers, All Other 260 jobs · $153,210
- 8. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $109,290
- 9. Computer Network Architects 240 jobs · $161,780
- 10. Information Security Analysts 220 jobs · $125,110
- 11. Architectural and Engineering Managers 180 jobs · $133,260
- 12. Human Resources Managers 170 jobs · $144,780
- 13. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $356,830
- 14. Business Teachers, Postsecondary 140 jobs · $148,290
- 15. Pharmacists 140 jobs · $139,050
- 16. Industrial Production Managers 120 jobs · $118,390
- 17. Database Architects 90 jobs · $161,430
- 18. Nurse Practitioners 90 jobs · $139,190
Occupations Tracked
268
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,894
employment-weighted, 258 complete rows
Top Salary
$356,830
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
93.5
6% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Bloomington, IL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $356,830 |
| 2 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,720 |
| 3 | Computer Network Architects | $161,780 |
| 4 | Database Architects | $161,430 |
| 5 | Dentists, General | $160,750 |
| 6 | Financial Managers | $156,240 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $154,300 |
| 8 | Managers, All Other | $153,210 |
| 9 | Business Teachers, Postsecondary | $148,290 |
| 10 | Human Resources Managers | $144,780 |
| 11 | Personal Financial Advisors | $141,070 |
| 12 | Nurse Practitioners | $139,190 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $139,050 |
| 14 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $134,080 |
| 15 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $133,260 |
| 16 | Optometrists | $132,740 |
| 17 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $131,260 |
| 18 | Information Security Analysts | $125,110 |
| 19 | Lawyers | $124,100 |
| 20 | Software Developers | $123,320 |
| 21 | Data Scientists | $120,760 |
| 22 | Industrial Production Managers | $118,390 |
| 23 | Public Relations Managers | $115,970 |
| 24 | Management Analysts | $113,110 |
| 25 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $109,290 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Bloomington, IL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $31,200 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $31,200 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $31,200 |
| Cashiers | $31,200 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,200 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $31,200 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $31,200 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $31,200 |
| Bartenders | $31,200 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in IL
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside IL. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($66,894 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Bloomington, IL wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Bloomington, IL at $356,830/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $66,894 adjusts to about $71,516 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.5. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for IL before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.