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.
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.
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.
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 Champaign-Urbana, IL wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Champaign-Urbana, IL at $423,260/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $63,487 adjusts to about $68,484 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.7. 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.