Illinois · NAICS 711 · Annual, 2025

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 711 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711) employed about 19,000 people in Illinois across roughly 2,318 establishments, with average annual pay of $111,490.

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Illinois grew 74.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.3% above the all-industries average in Illinois. Employment fell 40.4% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 109.3% 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.

  • 19,000Employment, 2025
  • 2,318Establishments
  • $111,490Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 0.83Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 14,400 to 19,000.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 14,400; 2005 14,300; 2006 14,300; 2007 14,400; 2008 14,500; 2009 13,500; 2010 13,300; 2011 13,900; 2012 14,700; 2013 15,200; 2014 15,500; 2015 16,100; 2016 16,400; 2017 17,900; 2018 18,300; 2019 18,200; 2020 10,900; 2021 12,600; 2022 16,800; 2023 18,100; 2024 19,300; 2025 19,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202519,0092,318$111,493 1.7%est. · 1.00
202419,3342,269$108,803 6.5%est. · 1.00
202318,1462,228$105,750 8.2%est. · 1.00
202216,7652,130$104,912 33.3%est. · 1.00
202112,5771,973$112,517 15.1%est. · 1.00
202010,9261,906$110,906 39.9%est. · 1.00
201918,1721,921$88,059 0.8%est. · 1.00
201818,3251,897$85,143 2.4%est. · 1.00
201717,9031,881$82,352 9.2%est. · 1.00
201616,4022,199$84,442 1.7%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries 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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