Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
Bloomington, IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 300.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Bloomington earn more.
$31,200 in Bloomington buys what $33,400 buys across the country as a whole.
Bloomington's regional price parity is 93.5 — 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. Bloomington |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomington This page | $31,200 | $33,400 | 93.5 | — |
| Champaign | $31,200 | $33,700 | 92.7 | +0.9% |
| Chicago | $31,200 | $30,100 | 103.6 | −9.7% |
| Decatur | $31,200 | $35,300 | 88.4 | +5.8% |
| Kankakee | $31,200 | $32,400 | 96.4 | −3.0% |
| Peoria | $31,200 | $34,200 | 91.2 | +2.5% |
| Rockford | $31,200 | $33,900 | 92.2 | +1.5% |
| Springfield | $31,200 | $33,600 | 92.7 | +0.9% |
Price parity and difference against Bloomington 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
- 300 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-9011, Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers. Mapped to our taxonomy as dining-room-and-cafeteria-attendants-and-bartender-helpers.
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