Illinois · NAICS 237 · Annual, 2025

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 237 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (NAICS 237) employed about 33,000 people in Illinois across roughly 2,327 establishments, with average annual pay of $111,210.

Employment in Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in Illinois grew 9.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Illinois than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.62). Average pay in the industry is 38.9% above the all-industries average in Illinois. 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.

  • 33,000Employment, 2025
  • 2,327Establishments
  • $111,210Avg. annual pay
  • 0.5%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.62Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 30,300 to 33,000.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 30,300; 2005 30,100; 2006 30,700; 2007 31,300; 2008 32,800; 2009 29,400; 2010 25,500; 2011 25,600; 2012 26,100; 2013 26,900; 2014 28,100; 2015 31,200; 2016 30,200; 2017 28,500; 2018 29,800; 2019 30,800; 2020 30,100; 2021 30,700; 2022 31,600; 2023 31,800; 2024 31,700; 2025 33,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202532,9512,327$111,207 4.1%pub.
202431,6532,378$106,319 0.4%pub.
202331,7892,357$102,231 0.6%pub.
202231,5962,350$98,085 2.9%pub.
202130,6962,369$96,113 2.0%est. · 1.00
202030,1012,398$92,932 2.2%pub.
201930,7792,422$86,283 3.2%pub.
201829,8362,432$84,318 4.5%est. · 1.00
201728,5452,468$84,899 5.6%est. · 1.00
201630,2312,832$82,857 3.2%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for heavy and civil engineering construction 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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