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.
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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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.