Illinois · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 355,400 people in Illinois across roughly 21,863 establishments, with average annual pay of $70,460.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois grew 10.3% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 355,400. 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.

  • 355,400Employment, 2025
  • 21,863Establishments
  • $70,460Avg. annual pay
  • 5.9%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 1.20Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 269,800 to 355,400.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 269,800; 2005 271,200; 2006 274,600; 2007 278,500; 2008 277,700; 2009 262,200; 2010 259,200; 2011 264,700; 2012 268,900; 2013 269,700; 2014 274,600; 2015 283,500; 2016 289,000; 2017 294,400; 2018 315,400; 2019 324,200; 2020 322,200; 2021 328,100; 2022 347,800; 2023 352,100; 2024 353,300; 2025 355,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025355,43221,863$70,460 0.6%pub.
2024353,30122,083$67,957 0.4%pub.
2023352,05822,311$64,682 1.2%pub.
2022347,84021,895$62,825 6.0%pub.
2021328,11620,890$59,802 1.8%pub.
2020322,21219,757$56,161 0.6%pub.
2019324,18619,313$56,386 2.8%pub.
2018315,39418,100$55,580 7.1%pub.
2017294,42317,260$54,688 1.9%pub.
2016289,01918,658$53,497 1.9%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation40,74811.5%1.83pub.
482Rail Transportation230.0%0.42pub.
483Water Transportation1,8250.5%0.66pub.
484Truck Transportation73,81220.8%1.28pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation39,40611.1%1.20pub.
486Pipeline Transportation9300.3%0.42pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation8480.2%0.70pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation42,34311.9%1.21pub.
491Postal Service26,3607.4%1.12pub.
492Couriers and Messengers48,90213.8%1.12pub.
493Warehousing and Storage80,23622.6%1.08pub.

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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Transportation and Warehousing in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

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