Illinois · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025
Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 355,400 people in Illinois across roughly 21,863 establishments, with average annual pay of $70,460.
Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois grew 10.3% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 355,400. 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.
- 355,400Employment, 2025
- 21,863Establishments
- $70,460Avg. annual pay
- 5.9%Share of Illinois jobs
- 1.20Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 269,800; 2005 271,200; 2006 274,600; 2007 278,500; 2008 277,700; 2009 262,200; 2010 259,200; 2011 264,700; 2012 268,900; 2013 269,700; 2014 274,600; 2015 283,500; 2016 289,000; 2017 294,400; 2018 315,400; 2019 324,200; 2020 322,200; 2021 328,100; 2022 347,800; 2023 352,100; 2024 353,300; 2025 355,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 355,432 | 21,863 | $70,460 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 353,301 | 22,083 | $67,957 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 352,058 | 22,311 | $64,682 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 347,840 | 21,895 | $62,825 | 6.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 328,116 | 20,890 | $59,802 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 322,212 | 19,757 | $56,161 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 324,186 | 19,313 | $56,386 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 315,394 | 18,100 | $55,580 | 7.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 294,423 | 17,260 | $54,688 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 289,019 | 18,658 | $53,497 | 1.9% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 11 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of transportation and warehousing | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 481 | Air Transportation | 40,748 | 11.5% | 1.83 | pub. |
| 482 | Rail Transportation | 23 | 0.0% | 0.42 | pub. |
| 483 | Water Transportation | 1,825 | 0.5% | 0.66 | pub. |
| 484 | Truck Transportation | 73,812 | 20.8% | 1.28 | pub. |
| 485 | Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation | 39,406 | 11.1% | 1.20 | pub. |
| 486 | Pipeline Transportation | 930 | 0.3% | 0.42 | pub. |
| 487 | Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation | 848 | 0.2% | 0.70 | pub. |
| 488 | Support Activities for Transportation | 42,343 | 11.9% | 1.21 | pub. |
| 491 | Postal Service | 26,360 | 7.4% | 1.12 | pub. |
| 492 | Couriers and Messengers | 48,902 | 13.8% | 1.12 | pub. |
| 493 | Warehousing and Storage | 80,236 | 22.6% | 1.08 | pub. |
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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Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for transportation and warehousing 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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