Illinois · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Illinois
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 69,700 people in Illinois worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $82,510.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Illinois declined 6.7% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 69,700Employment, 2025
- $82,510Mean annual wage
- 1.1%Share of Illinois jobs
- 0.86Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 74,600; 2005 75,300; 2006 76,200; 2007 76,600; 2008 75,700; 2009 70,500; 2010 69,000; 2011 69,500; 2012 70,400; 2013 70,700; 2014 71,700; 2015 72,600; 2016 73,300; 2017 75,600; 2018 78,700; 2019 79,100; 2020 68,400; 2021 70,500; 2022 75,100; 2023 74,600; 2024 71,000; 2025 69,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69,674 | $82,514 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 70,976 | $79,278 | 4.9% |
| 2023 | 74,591 | $74,598 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 75,088 | $72,826 | 6.4% |
| 2021 | 70,549 | $71,725 | 3.1% |
| 2020 | 68,399 | $66,681 | 13.5% |
| 2019 | 79,083 | $62,452 | 0.5% |
| 2018 | 78,714 | $59,788 | 4.2% |
| 2017 | 75,581 | $57,536 | 3.1% |
| 2016 | 73,272 | $56,277 | 1.0% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Illinois. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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