Peoria, IL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 91.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Peoria, IL moved from $47,990 in May 2024 to $49,590 in May 2025 (+3.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Peoria, IL sits +0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Mechanical Engineers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Peoria, IL
Mechanical Engineers publishes $128,710 here versus $104,110 nationally (+23.6%; 2,120metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $81,010 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-17.0%).
- Mechanical Engineers$128,710 in Peoria, IL sits 23.6% above the national Mechanical Engineers median of $104,110 (2,120 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$81,010 in Peoria, IL sits 17.0% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (5,460 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$31,200 in Peoria, IL sits 11.4% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,340 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$39,840 in Peoria, IL sits 11.0% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (2,260 published local jobs).
Mechanical Engineers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Peoria, IL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 37900 · Peoria, IL $67K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #76/528
- RPP-LOW 91.2
- OCC-MID 377 occs
- TOP-LEAD Nurse Anesthet… · $311K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Palm Bay-Melbour…
- BOOK-FULL 370 rows · May 2025
Read with Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL ($21 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Peoria, IL
Where Peoria, IL already employs the upper wage tier
Software Developers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Peoria, IL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,650 jobs · $130,590
- 2. Financial Managers 1,170 jobs · $155,840
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 880 jobs · $173,870
- 4. Managers, All Other 640 jobs · $132,900
- 5. Sales Managers 600 jobs · $131,660
- 6. Physicians, All Other 580 jobs · $224,690
- 7. Lawyers 560 jobs · $161,150
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 540 jobs · $212,820
- 9. Marketing Managers 480 jobs · $155,400
- 10. Information Security Analysts 460 jobs · $132,090
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 370 jobs · $129,500
- 12. Pharmacists 340 jobs · $139,900
- 13. Nurse Practitioners 320 jobs · $128,920
- 14. Human Resources Managers 310 jobs · $154,490
- 15. Computer Network Architects 260 jobs · $144,680
- 16. Purchasing Managers 210 jobs · $174,430
- 17. Operations Research Analysts 130 jobs · $129,300
- 18. Dentists, General 110 jobs · $168,780
Occupations Tracked
377
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,871
employment-weighted, 370 complete rows
Top Salary
$310,930
Nurse Anesthetists
Cost of Living
91.2
9% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Peoria, IL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Developers | $130,590 |
| 2 | Financial Managers | $155,840 |
| 3 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $173,870 |
| 4 | Managers, All Other | $132,900 |
| 5 | Sales Managers | $131,660 |
| 6 | Physicians, All Other | $224,690 |
| 7 | Lawyers | $161,150 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $212,820 |
| 9 | Marketing Managers | $155,400 |
| 10 | Information Security Analysts | $132,090 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $129,500 |
| 12 | Pharmacists | $139,900 |
| 13 | Nurse Practitioners | $128,920 |
| 14 | Human Resources Managers | $154,490 |
| 15 | Computer Network Architects | $144,680 |
| 16 | Purchasing Managers | $174,430 |
| 17 | Operations Research Analysts | $129,300 |
| 18 | Dentists, General | $168,780 |
| 19 | Physician Assistants | $133,170 |
| 20 | Nurse Anesthetists | $310,930 |
| 21 | Chief Executives | $270,090 |
| 22 | Veterinarians | $135,860 |
| 23 | Family Medicine Physicians | $241,910 |
| 24 | Optometrists | $166,600 |
| 25 | Database Architects | $154,400 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Peoria, IL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $31,200 |
| Advertising Sales Agents | $31,200 |
| Cashiers | $31,200 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,200 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $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 ($66,871 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.