Illinois · SOC 25-0000 · Annual, 2025

Educational instruction and library occupations in Illinois

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 25-0000 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 382,700 people in Illinois worked in educational instruction and library occupations (SOC 25-0000), with an average annual wage of $74,530.

Employment in educational instruction and library occupations in Illinois grew 9.7% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 382,700. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.

  • 382,700Employment, 2025
  • $74,530Mean annual wage
  • 6.3%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 1.08Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in educational instruction and library occupations in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 334,000 to 382,700.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 334,000; 2005 337,700; 2006 342,200; 2007 348,800; 2008 357,000; 2009 361,100; 2010 362,200; 2011 362,500; 2012 364,900; 2013 365,900; 2014 364,700; 2015 365,300; 2016 365,700; 2017 365,400; 2018 368,000; 2019 372,800; 2020 348,900; 2021 351,100; 2022 360,100; 2023 366,700; 2024 374,700; 2025 382,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025382,679$74,528 2.1%
2024374,748$72,530 2.2%
2023366,712$70,285 1.8%
2022360,055$69,664 2.5%
2021351,145$68,343 0.7%
2020348,882$67,214 6.4%
2019372,780$61,666 1.3%
2018367,978$61,785 0.7%
2017365,442$61,332 0.1%
2016365,750$61,239 0.1%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Educational instruction and library occupations in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

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