Illinois · NAICS 322 · Annual, 2025
Paper Manufacturing in Illinois
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 322 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Paper Manufacturing (NAICS 322) employed about 17,800 people in Illinois across roughly 340 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,110.
Employment in Paper Manufacturing in Illinois declined 30.3% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Illinois as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.30). 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.
- 17,800Employment, 2025
- 340Establishments
- $82,110Avg. annual pay
- 0.3%Share of Illinois jobs
- 1.30Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 25,600; 2005 25,400; 2006 24,800; 2007 24,300; 2008 23,700; 2009 21,500; 2010 20,100; 2011 19,900; 2012 19,600; 2013 19,500; 2014 19,300; 2015 19,300; 2016 19,100; 2017 18,900; 2018 18,800; 2019 18,700; 2020 17,300; 2021 17,200; 2022 18,000; 2023 17,700; 2024 17,500; 2025 17,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,810 | 340 | $82,113 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 17,524 | 347 | $80,192 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 17,725 | 347 | $78,212 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 18,015 | 339 | $76,679 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 17,223 | 338 | $72,380 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 17,349 | 338 | $68,239 | 7.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 18,725 | 348 | $67,610 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 18,801 | 347 | $65,588 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 18,904 | 360 | $63,887 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 19,085 | 396 | $62,539 | 1.1% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Paper Manufacturing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for paper manufacturing 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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