Illinois · NAICS 713 · Annual, 2025

Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in Illinois

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 713 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries (NAICS 713) employed about 103,100 people in Illinois across roughly 3,913 establishments, with average annual pay of $30,650.

Employment in Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in Illinois grew 56.9% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.7% below the all-industries average in Illinois. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 103,100. 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.

  • 103,100Employment, 2025
  • 3,913Establishments
  • $30,650Avg. annual pay
  • 1.7%Share of Illinois jobs
  • 1.21Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in Illinois, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 87,800 to 103,100.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 87,800; 2005 87,800; 2006 88,000; 2007 87,900; 2008 88,300; 2009 86,200; 2010 84,400; 2011 84,600; 2012 85,900; 2013 85,900; 2014 88,700; 2015 91,400; 2016 94,300; 2017 96,200; 2018 97,300; 2019 99,600; 2020 65,700; 2021 76,400; 2022 85,900; 2023 93,500; 2024 99,300; 2025 103,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025103,0743,913$30,650 3.8%pub.
202499,3383,931$29,299 6.2%pub.
202393,5403,804$28,521 8.8%pub.
202285,9333,724$27,938 12.5%pub.
202176,3633,718$26,827 16.2%pub.
202065,7143,742$26,223 34.0%pub.
201999,5923,752$22,380 2.4%pub.
201897,3023,662$21,776 1.2%pub.
201796,1573,516$21,349 2.0%pub.
201694,3013,569$21,365 3.1%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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Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for amusement, gambling, and recreation 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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