Illinois · NAICS 331 · Annual, 2025

Primary Metal Manufacturing in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 331 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Primary Metal Manufacturing (NAICS 331) employed about 16,100 people in Illinois across roughly 337 establishments, with average annual pay of $89,080.

Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Illinois declined 7.0% from 2024 to 2025. Employment fell 37.8% 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.

  • 16,100Employment, 2025
  • 337Establishments
  • $89,080Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 1.14Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 25,900 to 16,100.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 25,900; 2005 25,400; 2006 24,900; 2007 24,000; 2008 22,600; 2009 17,300; 2010 17,400; 2011 19,100; 2012 19,700; 2013 19,400; 2014 19,800; 2015 19,400; 2016 18,000; 2017 17,400; 2018 18,400; 2019 19,000; 2020 17,200; 2021 17,100; 2022 17,600; 2023 17,700; 2024 17,300; 2025 16,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202516,092337$89,078 7.0%pub.
202417,295336$84,628 2.1%pub.
202317,671328$87,547 0.4%pub.
202217,599339$88,046 2.7%pub.
202117,132336$82,628 0.6%pub.
202017,235336$71,976 9.4%pub.
201919,022344$72,753 3.1%pub.
201818,449348$71,892 5.9%pub.
201717,427346$67,767 3.4%pub.
201618,032371$62,056 6.9%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.

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

Notes

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Primary Metal Manufacturing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for primary metal manufacturing 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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