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First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers

Springfield, IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 320.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 47-1011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$97,140 · 50th
$65,94010th
$82,55025th
$97,14050th
$115,61075th
$126,84090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Springfield earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$97,140 in Springfield buys what $104,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Springfield's regional price parity is 92.7 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Illinois

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Springfield
Chicago$111,260$107,400103.6+2.5%
Rockford$102,140$110,80092.2+5.8%
Kankakee$100,640$104,40096.4−0.3%
Peoria$98,680$108,20091.2+3.3%
Springfield This page$97,140$104,70092.7
Champaign$96,940$104,60092.7−0.2%
Bloomington$94,080$100,60093.5−4.0%
Decatur$75,400$85,30088.4−18.6%

Price parity and difference against Springfield are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 22.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 3.0% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
320 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 47-1011, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-construction-trades-and-extraction-workers.

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