Kankakee, IL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Kankakee, IL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Kankakee, IL moved from $45,260 in May 2024 to $45,830 in May 2025 (+1.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Kankakee, IL sits -1.8 pp behind 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.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 28100 · Kankakee, IL $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #300/528
- RPP-MID 96.4
- OCC-THIN 183 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $400K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Northeast Maine…
- BOOK-MOST 182 rows · May 2025
Read with Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area ($4 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 Kankakee, IL
Employment scale inside Kankakee, IL's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Kankakee, IL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 970 jobs · $93,310
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $103,720
- 3. Physicians, All Other 200 jobs · $400,280
- 4. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $127,470
- 5. Electricians 140 jobs · $105,500
- 6. First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 140 jobs · $100,640
- 7. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 130 jobs · $99,470
- 8. Sales Managers 120 jobs · $135,330
- 9. Industrial Production Managers 120 jobs · $124,070
- 10. Carpenters 120 jobs · $95,280
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 100 jobs · $128,320
- 12. Managers, All Other 100 jobs · $109,340
- 13. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $140,960
- 14. Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 90 jobs · $94,270
- 15. Industrial Engineers 80 jobs · $94,690
- 16. Project Management Specialists 70 jobs · $95,790
- 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $133,150
- 18. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $121,560
Occupations Tracked
183
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,840
employment-weighted, 182 complete rows
Top Salary
$400,280
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
96.4
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Kankakee, IL
Lowest Paying Jobs in Kankakee, IL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Cashiers | $31,200 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $31,200 |
| Animal Caretakers | $31,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,200 |
| Dishwashers | $31,200 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $31,200 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $31,200 |
| Bartenders | $31,200 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $31,200 |
| School Bus Monitors | $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 ($56,840 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 Kankakee, IL wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Kankakee, IL at $400,280/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,840 adjusts to about $58,966 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 96.4. 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.