Illinois · SOC 33-0000 · Annual, 2025
Protective service occupations in Illinois
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 33-0000 in Illinois, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 152,000 people in Illinois worked in protective service occupations (SOC 33-0000), with an average annual wage of $75,570.
Employment in protective service occupations in Illinois grew 12.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 152,000. 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.
- 152,000Employment, 2025
- $75,570Mean annual wage
- 2.5%Share of Illinois jobs
- 1.04Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 138,000; 2005 138,700; 2006 139,900; 2007 141,600; 2008 142,200; 2009 139,800; 2010 138,100; 2011 137,400; 2012 137,000; 2013 137,300; 2014 138,300; 2015 140,600; 2016 142,000; 2017 144,500; 2018 147,300; 2019 146,800; 2020 135,800; 2021 138,800; 2022 143,000; 2023 146,100; 2024 149,900; 2025 152,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152,045 | $75,568 | 1.5% |
| 2024 | 149,880 | $73,017 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 146,112 | $69,890 | 2.2% |
| 2022 | 143,004 | $70,585 | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 138,841 | $67,708 | 2.3% |
| 2020 | 135,780 | $65,891 | 7.5% |
| 2019 | 146,765 | $60,662 | 0.4% |
| 2018 | 147,275 | $58,717 | 1.9% |
| 2017 | 144,467 | $56,629 | 1.8% |
| 2016 | 141,960 | $53,939 | 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.
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Protective service occupations in Illinois, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for protective service 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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