Illinois · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 850 people in Illinois across roughly 40 establishments, with average annual pay of $50,100.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Illinois grew 84.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 37.4% below the all-industries average in Illinois. Employment fell 58.4% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 60.3% of that loss. 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.

  • 850Employment, 2025
  • 40Establishments
  • $50,100Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.70Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 840 to 850.05001K1.5K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 840; 2005 910; 2006 970; 2007 990; 2008 950; 2009 840; 2010 860; 2011 880; 2012 980; 2013 1,020; 2014 1,060; 2015 1,050; 2016 1,070; 2017 1,090; 2018 1,100; 2019 1,100; 2020 460; 2021 560; 2022 720; 2023 780; 2024 870; 2025 850.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202584840$50,103 2.3%pub.
202486847$47,080 11.1%pub.
202378151$45,085 9.2%pub.
202271548$46,886 28.4%pub.
202155744$44,198 21.2%pub.
202046045$43,696 58.1%pub.
20191,09645$38,048 0.8%pub.
20181,10443$34,050 1.0%pub.
20171,09346$34,159 2.3%pub.
20161,06857$33,896 2.1%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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

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