Illinois · NAICS 518 · Annual, 2025

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 518 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518) employed about 16,900 people in Illinois across roughly 1,687 establishments, with average annual pay of $208,630.

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in Illinois grew 5.5% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 160.7% above the all-industries average in Illinois. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 16,900. 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.

  • 16,900Employment, 2025
  • 1,687Establishments
  • $208,630Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.89Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 10,800 to 16,900.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 10,800; 2005 10,500; 2006 10,300; 2007 10,900; 2008 10,300; 2009 8,970; 2010 8,440; 2011 8,690; 2012 8,480; 2013 9,130; 2014 9,900; 2015 10,200; 2016 9,940; 2017 10,200; 2018 10,800; 2019 11,000; 2020 11,300; 2021 12,900; 2022 15,000; 2023 15,900; 2024 16,000; 2025 16,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202516,8841,687$208,629 5.5%pub.
202416,0091,633$186,659 0.8%pub.
202315,8891,574$172,533 5.7%pub.
202215,0331,389$161,068 16.3%pub.
202112,9241,172$162,055 14.2%pub.
202011,3141,008$146,868 3.1%pub.
201910,977942$128,825 1.4%pub.
201810,824891$126,079 5.7%pub.
201710,246826$116,926 3.1%pub.
20169,940895$116,332 2.7%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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Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services 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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