Illinois · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 571,300 people in Illinois across roughly 19,293 establishments, with average annual pay of $90,890.

Employment in Manufacturing in Illinois declined 18.4% from 2004 to 2025. 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.

  • 571,300Employment, 2025
  • 19,293Establishments
  • $90,890Avg. annual pay
  • 9.4%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 1.16Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 699,900 to 571,300.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 699,900; 2005 692,300; 2006 686,600; 2007 678,900; 2008 662,200; 2009 581,200; 2010 564,100; 2011 576,700; 2012 585,300; 2013 581,200; 2014 581,100; 2015 582,200; 2016 575,600; 2017 576,900; 2018 588,200; 2019 588,000; 2020 556,800; 2021 556,400; 2022 573,400; 2023 580,300; 2024 580,300; 2025 571,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025571,34419,293$90,890 1.6%pub.
2024580,32519,330$87,945 0.0%pub.
2023580,34119,131$85,875 1.2%pub.
2022573,37218,810$84,100 3.0%pub.
2021556,39918,504$79,448 0.1%pub.
2020556,81418,036$74,889 5.3%pub.
2019587,98518,069$72,865 0.0%pub.
2018588,24217,886$71,929 2.0%pub.
2017576,92817,982$70,209 0.2%pub.
2016575,59519,097$68,488 1.1%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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing98,22217.2%1.42pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing8,0651.4%0.63pub.
313Textile Mills8360.1%0.26pub.
314Textile Product Mills2,8000.5%0.77pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing3,1410.5%1.02pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing8160.1%0.88pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing7,3321.3%0.47pub.
322Paper Manufacturing17,8103.1%1.30pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities20,0113.5%1.48pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing5,5921.0%1.31pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing48,7458.5%1.40pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing37,6576.6%1.38pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing12,4292.2%0.77pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing16,0922.8%1.14pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing84,22214.7%1.51pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing66,69111.7%1.57pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing29,4805.2%0.76pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing21,4233.8%1.27pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing44,9267.9%0.65pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing11,5952.0%0.89pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing33,4615.9%1.40pub.

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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Manufacturing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

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

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.