Champaign-Urbana, IL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Champaign-Urbana, IL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Champaign-Urbana, IL moved from $48,600 in May 2024 to $50,700 in May 2025 (+4.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Champaign-Urbana, IL sits +1.2 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Champaign-Urbana, IL
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary publishes $50,110 here versus $42,910 nationally (+16.8%; 2,480metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $96,610 locally versus $105,770 nationally (-8.7%).
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary$50,110 in Champaign-Urbana, IL sits 16.8% above the national Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary median of $42,910 (2,480 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$96,610 in Champaign-Urbana, IL sits 8.7% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,260 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$48,800 in Champaign-Urbana, IL sits 8.4% above the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,180 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$90,230 in Champaign-Urbana, IL sits 7.5% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (3,520 published local jobs).
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Champaign-Urbana, IL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 16580 · Champaign-Urbana, IL $63K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #127/528
- RPP-LOW 92.7
- OCC-MID 319 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $423K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Reno, NV
- BOOK-FULL 315 rows · May 2025
Read with Reno, NV ($1 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 Champaign-Urbana, IL
Employment scale inside Champaign-Urbana, IL's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Physicians, All Other lead published employment inside Champaign-Urbana, IL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 660 jobs · $127,680
- 2. Physicians, All Other 480 jobs · $423,260
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 460 jobs · $140,480
- 4. Nurse Practitioners 420 jobs · $137,100
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 400 jobs · $124,830
- 6. Sales Managers 300 jobs · $120,230
- 7. Managers, All Other 280 jobs · $126,110
- 8. Lawyers 250 jobs · $129,990
- 9. Pharmacists 220 jobs · $139,270
- 10. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 210 jobs · $139,810
- 11. Human Resources Managers 210 jobs · $121,390
- 12. Natural Sciences Managers 160 jobs · $107,630
- 13. Computer Network Architects 150 jobs · $111,780
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 140 jobs · $122,600
- 15. Physician Assistants 120 jobs · $139,950
- 16. Architectural and Engineering Managers 100 jobs · $148,250
- 17. Public Relations Managers 90 jobs · $108,130
- 18. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 90 jobs · $107,880
Occupations Tracked
319
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$63,487
employment-weighted, 315 complete rows
Top Salary
$423,260
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
92.7
7% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Champaign-Urbana, IL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $423,260 |
| 2 | Chief Executives | $310,740 |
| 3 | Family Medicine Physicians | $282,430 |
| 4 | Dentists, General | $174,010 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $148,250 |
| 6 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $140,480 |
| 7 | Physician Assistants | $139,950 |
| 8 | Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | $139,810 |
| 9 | Pharmacists | $139,270 |
| 10 | Nurse Practitioners | $137,100 |
| 11 | Lawyers | $129,990 |
| 12 | Financial Managers | $127,680 |
| 13 | Managers, All Other | $126,110 |
| 14 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $124,830 |
| 15 | Industrial Production Managers | $122,600 |
| 16 | Human Resources Managers | $121,390 |
| 17 | Sales Managers | $120,230 |
| 18 | Purchasing Managers | $117,450 |
| 19 | Database Administrators | $114,630 |
| 20 | Fundraising Managers | $112,260 |
| 21 | Computer Network Architects | $111,780 |
| 22 | Personal Financial Advisors | $111,540 |
| 23 | Public Relations Managers | $108,130 |
| 24 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $107,880 |
| 25 | Natural Sciences Managers | $107,630 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Champaign-Urbana, IL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Automotive and Watercraft Service 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 |
| Bartenders | $31,200 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $31,300 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,610 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $31,850 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $31,990 |
| Cashiers | $32,130 |
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 ($63,487 here) and summed published employment.
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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.