Illinois · NAICS 485 · Annual, 2025
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Illinois
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 485 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485) employed about 39,400 people in Illinois across roughly 1,023 establishments, with average annual pay of $50,970.
Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Illinois grew 18.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 36.3% below 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.
- 39,400Employment, 2025
- 1,023Establishments
- $50,970Avg. annual pay
- 0.7%Share of Illinois jobs
- 1.20Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 36,400; 2005 36,500; 2006 37,200; 2007 38,300; 2008 39,200; 2009 39,700; 2010 38,800; 2011 38,800; 2012 38,800; 2013 39,500; 2014 40,200; 2015 41,100; 2016 40,500; 2017 40,000; 2018 40,300; 2019 40,400; 2020 33,200; 2021 32,300; 2022 33,000; 2023 35,100; 2024 37,700; 2025 39,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39,406 | 1,023 | $50,969 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 37,659 | 1,055 | $51,237 | 7.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 35,060 | 1,027 | $50,313 | 6.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 32,976 | 1,007 | $48,475 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 32,277 | 1,004 | $43,908 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 33,195 | 1,031 | $41,178 | 17.9% | pub. |
| 2019 | 40,438 | 1,087 | $39,570 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 40,263 | 1,087 | $38,049 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 40,050 | 1,101 | $36,189 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 40,518 | 1,330 | $35,588 | 1.3% | 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.
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Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for transit and ground passenger transportation in Illinois. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.