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Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School

Bloomington, IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 270.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 25-2052
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$64,250 · 50th
$51,61010th
$60,59025th
$64,25050th
$83,69075th
$104,62090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$64,250 in Bloomington buys what $68,700 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.

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. Bloomington
Chicago$79,690$76,900103.6+12.0%
Springfield$77,430$83,50092.7+21.5%
Rockford$72,910$79,10092.2+15.2%
Decatur$65,390$74,00088.4+7.7%
Bloomington This page$64,250$68,70093.5
Champaign$62,320$67,20092.7−2.1%
Kankakee$61,420$63,70096.4−7.2%
Peoria$61,200$67,10091.2−2.3%

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

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.
Employment
270 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 25-2052, Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School. Mapped to our taxonomy as special-education-teachers-kindergarten-and-elementary-school.

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