Bakers
Kankakee, IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 100.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of bakers in Kankakee earn more.
$39,570 in Kankakee buys what $41,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Kankakee's regional price parity is 96.4 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Illinois
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Kankakee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kankakee This page | $39,570 | $41,100 | 96.4 | — |
| Chicago | $37,230 | $35,900 | 103.6 | −12.5% |
| Champaign | $36,580 | $39,500 | 92.7 | −3.9% |
| Rockford | $35,870 | $38,900 | 92.2 | −5.2% |
| Springfield | $34,540 | $37,200 | 92.7 | −9.3% |
| Peoria | $34,470 | $37,800 | 91.2 | −8.0% |
| Bloomington | $34,440 | $36,800 | 93.5 | −10.3% |
Price parity and difference against Kankakee are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 100 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 51-3011, Bakers. Mapped to our taxonomy as bakers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.