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Illinois Salary Calculator 2026

Convert hourly ↔ annual salary and benchmark your pay against Illinois-adjusted BLS medians for 20+ trade roles. Illinois is pre-selected; includes overtime.

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Hourly ↔ Annual Reference Table

Hourly RateAnnual (2,080 hrs)MonthlyWeekly
$15.00/hr$31,200$2,600$600
$20.00/hr$41,600$3,467$800
$25.00/hr$52,000$4,333$1,000
$30.00/hr$62,400$5,200$1,200
$35.00/hr$72,800$6,067$1,400
$40.00/hr$83,200$6,933$1,600
$45.00/hr$93,600$7,800$1,800
$50.00/hr$104,000$8,667$2,000
$60.00/hr$124,800$10,400$2,400
$75.00/hr$156,000$13,000$3,000
$100.00/hr$208,000$17,333$4,000
$125.00/hr$260,000$21,667$5,000

Salary Calculator FAQ

How do you convert hourly rate to annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for a standard full-time annual salary. Example: $30/hr × 2,080 = $62,400/yr. For overtime weeks, use: (40 hrs × rate) + (OT hrs × rate × 1.5) × number of weeks.

How many working hours are in a year?

Standard full-time: 2,080 hours (40 × 52). Minus 10 federal holidays (80 hrs): 2,000 paid hours. Minus 2 weeks vacation (80 hrs): 1,920 hours actually worked. BLS uses 2,080 for hourly-to-annual conversions. Turnaround and shutdown workers can exceed 3,000 hours/yr with heavy overtime.

What is time-and-a-half overtime?

Under the FLSA, non-exempt employees must receive 1.5× their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Example: $30/hr base · regular week = $1,200 (40 hrs) · one 10-hr OT week = $1,200 + ($30 × 1.5 × 10) = $1,200 + $450 = $1,650. Double time (2×) is not federally required but common in petrochemical and union contracts.

Illinois Salaries

How Illinois salaries compare to the national market

Illinois trade wages sit close to the national market, roughly 2% above the median (BLS OEWS May 2025), and this calculator applies a 1.02 Illinois wage index to national medians. Almost all of that premium comes from Chicago, where union density in the building trades pushes rates about 15% above the state figure; downstate metros like Peoria and Rockford run below it. Illinois taxes income at a flat 4.95%, and no Illinois city, Chicago included, levies its own income tax on wages.

Illinois: illinois salary calculator — Illinois wage index 1.02× national BLS median, Gross vs national ~2% above, State income tax Flat 4.95% (no brackets). Simplified outline of Illinois, stylised and not to scale.
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Illinois trade salaries at a glance (2026 BLS)

Illinois-adjusted BLS OEWS medians for common skilled trades (national median localised with the 1.02 Illinois wage index). Enter your own pay in the calculator above to benchmark against any role.

TradeIllinois median / yrNational medianIllinois / hr
Electrician$82,650$63,190$39.74
Plumber$65,080$63,800$31.29
HVAC Technician$62,230$61,010$29.92
Pipefitter$65,080$63,800$31.29
Ironworker$64,040$62,780$30.79
Carpenter$61,790$60,580$29.71

Trade pay by Illinois metro

Local BLS medians vs the Illinois state average.

MetroMedianvs state
Chicago$74,1201.15× state
Peoria$61,2300.95× state
Springfield$59,9400.93× state
Rockford$59,2900.92× state
Does Chicago charge a city income tax on my paycheck?

No. Illinois municipalities are not permitted to tax wages, so a Chicago paycheck loses no city income tax, unlike New York City or Columbus, Ohio. Chicago funds services through property, sales and transaction taxes instead, none of which come out of payroll. Your Illinois deduction is the flat 4.95% state tax.

How does the flat 4.95% Illinois tax affect a raise?

Predictably, which is the point. Because Illinois has no brackets, every extra dollar of overtime or a raise is taxed at the same 4.95%, so your effective state rate barely moves. The one adjustment is the $2,925 personal exemption allowance (2026), which reduces taxable income per person claimed.

How accurate is the Illinois benchmark in this calculator?

The calculator applies an Illinois wage index (1.02×) to national BLS OEWS medians, a reference estimate, not a quote. Illinois has an unusually wide union and non-union spread, Chicago-area union scale runs far above the state figure; for exact BLS state and metro medians with percentiles, use the Illinois salary guide.

What is the median trade salary in Illinois?

It varies by role: the Illinois electrician median is about $64,450, plumbers $65,080, HVAC technicians $62,230, and pipefitters $65,080 (BLS OEWS May 2025, Illinois-adjusted). Enter your own pay in the calculator to see your percentile against any role.

How is the Illinois wage index applied?

National BLS OEWS medians are multiplied by a 1.02 Illinois factor to localise them, reflecting that Illinois gross pay runs about 2% above the national average. Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year. It is a reference estimate, not an employer offer, Chicago union scale can run well above it.

Which Illinois metros pay trades the most?

Chicago dominates: high-rise, data-center and transit work plus one of the densest union building-trades markets in the country push rates roughly 15% above the Illinois median. Peoria and Springfield track a few points below the state figure, and Rockford lowest of the major metros.

Do Illinois trade wages include overtime?

The benchmark medians are base pay. Illinois follows the federal FLSA standard of 1.5× after 40 hours a week, and overtime is routine on Chicago union projects with tight schedules. This calculator lets you add overtime hours at 1.5× (or 2×) to model total annual pay.

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Sources & methodology

Salary figures are U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2025) national medians localised with a 1.02 Illinois wage index; hourly rates assume 2,080 paid hours a year. Primary sources: BLS OEWS · Illinois Department of Revenue · Illinois Department of Labor. Reviewed 2026-07-01 by the GlobalCybers Data Desk · reference estimates, not an offer of pay. Full methodology →

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