Illinois · NAICS 488 · Annual, 2025
Support Activities for Transportation in Illinois
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 488 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Support Activities for Transportation (NAICS 488) employed about 42,300 people in Illinois across roughly 2,828 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,630.
Employment in Support Activities for Transportation in Illinois grew 16.7% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 42,300. 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.
- 42,300Employment, 2025
- 2,828Establishments
- $78,630Avg. annual pay
- 0.7%Share of Illinois jobs
- 1.21Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 29,400; 2005 30,800; 2006 30,600; 2007 31,500; 2008 33,400; 2009 30,800; 2010 30,700; 2011 33,200; 2012 34,500; 2013 34,300; 2014 34,900; 2015 36,000; 2016 36,300; 2017 35,700; 2018 36,600; 2019 39,500; 2020 36,300; 2021 38,200; 2022 42,300; 2023 42,100; 2024 41,600; 2025 42,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42,343 | 2,828 | $78,629 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 41,581 | 2,844 | $74,964 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 42,120 | 2,811 | $73,657 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 42,331 | 2,707 | $75,224 | 10.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 38,195 | 2,589 | $71,801 | 5.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 36,290 | 2,460 | $64,537 | 8.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 39,529 | 2,443 | $61,703 | 8.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 36,584 | 2,355 | $61,145 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 35,699 | 2,338 | $59,195 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 36,315 | 2,558 | $57,905 | 0.8% | 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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Support Activities for Transportation in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for support activities for transportation 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.