Illinois · NAICS 51 · Annual, 2025

Information in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 51 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Information (NAICS 51) employed about 100,300 people in Illinois across roughly 10,097 establishments, with average annual pay of $146,430.

Employment in Information in Illinois declined 23.6% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 82.9% 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.

  • 100,300Employment, 2025
  • 10,097Establishments
  • $146,430Avg. annual pay
  • 1.7%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.86Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Information in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 131,200 to 100,300.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 131,200; 2005 128,800; 2006 127,000; 2007 127,100; 2008 125,600; 2009 117,400; 2010 112,300; 2011 110,700; 2012 110,900; 2013 109,500; 2014 110,000; 2015 111,600; 2016 110,500; 2017 107,100; 2018 105,200; 2019 105,700; 2020 97,700; 2021 99,000; 2022 106,500; 2023 103,500; 2024 101,300; 2025 100,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025100,27310,097$146,426 1.0%pub.
2024101,3039,955$132,569 2.2%pub.
2023103,5379,972$120,624 2.8%pub.
2022106,4859,571$115,336 7.6%pub.
202198,9918,370$114,566 1.4%pub.
202097,6727,563$101,913 7.6%est. · 1.00
2019105,6787,399$89,886 0.5%est. · 1.00
2018105,1777,089$84,762 1.8%est. · 1.00
2017107,0706,976$79,518 3.1%pub.
2016110,4797,662$77,106 1.0%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 6 shown

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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Information in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

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