Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
Kankakee, IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 200.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kankakee earn more.
$36,700 in Kankakee buys what $38,100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | $43,460 | $42,000 | 103.6 | +10.2% |
| Champaign | $42,270 | $45,600 | 92.7 | +19.8% |
| Decatur | $39,000 | $44,100 | 88.4 | +15.8% |
| Rockford | $37,000 | $40,200 | 92.2 | +5.5% |
| Kankakee This page | $36,700 | $38,100 | 96.4 | — |
| Bloomington | $36,330 | $38,800 | 93.5 | +2.0% |
| Springfield | $35,620 | $38,400 | 92.7 | +0.9% |
| Peoria | $31,200 | $34,200 | 91.2 | −10.2% |
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
- 200 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 25-3031, Substitute Teachers, Short-Term. Mapped to our taxonomy as substitute-teachers-short-term.
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