Illinois · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 241,300 people in Illinois across roughly 32,393 establishments, with average annual pay of $93,560.

Employment in Construction in Illinois grew 10.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Illinois than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.73). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Illinois are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 241,300Employment, 2025
  • 32,393Establishments
  • $93,560Avg. annual pay
  • 4.0%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.73Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 269,200 to 241,300.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 269,200; 2005 270,200; 2006 277,000; 2007 272,200; 2008 260,300; 2009 221,000; 2010 200,400; 2011 197,500; 2012 190,600; 2013 192,700; 2014 203,300; 2015 215,000; 2016 219,800; 2017 221,700; 2018 227,400; 2019 229,400; 2020 218,000; 2021 223,700; 2022 231,900; 2023 237,200; 2024 238,100; 2025 241,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025241,26732,393$93,564 1.3%pub.
2024238,12533,134$90,517 0.4%pub.
2023237,16033,251$85,406 2.3%pub.
2022231,86433,163$81,412 3.6%pub.
2021223,71833,197$78,339 2.6%est. · 1.00
2020218,02633,000$76,268 5.0%pub.
2019229,40633,152$73,492 0.9%pub.
2018227,40032,775$71,666 2.6%est. · 1.00
2017221,68232,097$70,537 0.8%pub.
2016219,83137,209$68,861 2.3%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings51,73921.4%0.71pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction32,95113.7%0.62pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors156,57764.9%0.77pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Construction in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for construction in Illinois. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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