Illinois · NAICS 53 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Illinois
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 53 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53) employed about 79,200 people in Illinois across roughly 13,667 establishments, with average annual pay of $93,680.
Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Illinois declined 5.1% 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.
- 79,200Employment, 2025
- 13,667Establishments
- $93,680Avg. annual pay
- 1.3%Share of Illinois jobs
- 0.83Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 83,400; 2005 84,100; 2006 85,000; 2007 84,700; 2008 80,800; 2009 75,000; 2010 72,600; 2011 71,600; 2012 72,100; 2013 73,800; 2014 75,400; 2015 77,500; 2016 79,600; 2017 82,000; 2018 82,400; 2019 83,900; 2020 78,300; 2021 79,100; 2022 81,000; 2023 81,500; 2024 79,800; 2025 79,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79,179 | 13,667 | $93,678 | 0.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 79,817 | 13,948 | $89,058 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 81,471 | 13,975 | $86,700 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 81,004 | 13,816 | $85,898 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 79,111 | 13,567 | $83,169 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 78,297 | 13,374 | $75,056 | 6.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 83,864 | 13,290 | $72,498 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 82,407 | 12,980 | $69,504 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 81,958 | 12,765 | $65,755 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 79,642 | 13,917 | $65,155 | 2.7% | 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of real estate and rental and leasing | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 531 | Real Estate | 56,278 | 71.1% | 0.78 | est. · 1.00 |
| 532 | Rental and Leasing Services | 21,919 | 27.7% | 0.98 | est. · 1.00 |
| 533 | Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) | 983 | 1.2% | 1.15 | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for real estate and rental and leasing 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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