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.
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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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.