Kankakee, IL

184 occupations with BLS estimates, May 2025. BLS area code 28100.

BLS figures are for its own occupation list. Where one BLS occupation covers several O*NET occupations, it links to the first and says how many.

Largest

Occupation	Employment
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations)	1,390
Fast Food and Counter Workers (2 O*NET occupations)	1,220
Cashiers	1,190
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (2 O*NET occupations)	1,190
Retail Salespersons	1,140
General and Operations Managers	970
Nursing Assistants	860
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (6 O*NET occupations)	820
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders	800
Stockers and Order Fillers	770
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	760
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (3 O*NET occupations)	590
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (2 O*NET occupations)	590
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	570
Office Clerks, General	560
Waiters and Waitresses	550
Phlebotomists	540
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive	540
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	520
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators (2 O*NET occupations)	500

Most concentrated

By location quotient: the occupation's share of jobs here divided by its share nationally. Occupations employing fewer than 100 here are left out.

Occupation	Location quotient	Employment
Phlebotomists	13.87	540
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (6 O*NET occupations)	9.05	820
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	8.09	210
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders	7.77	800
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing	6.63	110
Library Assistants, Clerical	5.54	130
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant	2.95	240
Highway Maintenance Workers	2.35	100
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School	2.31	100
Physicians, All Other (7 O*NET occupations)	2.18	200
Nursing Assistants	2.18	860
Food Batchmakers	2.11	100
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers	2.02	230
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria	1.96	230
Social and Human Service Assistants	1.93	230
Production Workers, All Other	1.85	130
Industrial Production Managers (6 O*NET occupations)	1.82	120
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics	1.68	320
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers	1.64	300
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education	1.63	280

Highest median wage

Occupation	Median annual
Physicians, All Other (7 O*NET occupations)	$400,280
Pharmacists	$140,960
Dentists, General	$137,390
Sales Managers	$135,330
Computer and Information Systems Managers	$133,150
Nurse Practitioners	$128,320
Financial Managers (3 O*NET occupations)	$127,470
Industrial Production Managers (6 O*NET occupations)	$124,070
Human Resources Managers	$121,560
Marketing Managers	$121,310
Software Developers	$116,550
Managers, All Other (7 O*NET occupations)	$109,340
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (2 O*NET occupations)	$107,910
Lawyers	$107,030
Electricians	$105,500
Medical and Health Services Managers	$103,720
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (2 O*NET occupations)	$100,640
Physical Therapists	$99,770
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	$99,470
Project Management Specialists	$95,790

All 184 occupations

BLS occupation	Employment	Median annual	Location quotient
Accountants and Auditors `13-2011`	210	$71,610	0.53
Administrative Services Managers `11-3012`	40	$87,490	0.55
Animal Caretakers `39-2021`	70	$31,200	1.01
Automotive Body and Related Repairers `49-3021`	40	$56,870	1.03
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics `49-3023`	320	$45,190	1.68
Bakers `51-3011`	100	$39,570	1.58
Bartenders `35-3011`	290	$31,200	1.41
Billing and Posting Clerks `43-3021`	180	$41,290	1.60
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks `43-3031`	400	$47,240	1.08
Bus Drivers, School `53-3051`	160	$44,870	1.50
Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists `49-3031`	110	$58,230	1.37
Business Operations Specialists, All Other (5 O*NET occupations) `13-1199`	130	$80,020	0.43
Butchers and Meat Cutters `51-3021`	60	$40,480	1.49
Buyers and Purchasing Agents (3 O*NET occupations) `13-1020`	100	$65,490	0.75
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary `25-1194`	50	$65,950	1.51
Carpenters `47-2031`	120	$95,280	0.64
Cashiers `41-2011`	1,190	$31,200	1.42
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers `47-2051`	40	$65,130	0.78
Chefs and Head Cooks `35-1011`	40	$47,160	0.68
Child, Family, and School Social Workers `21-1021`	140	$58,180	1.33
Childcare Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `39-9011`	210	$32,820	1.49
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment `53-7061`	160	$33,970	1.52
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (6 O*NET occupations) `29-2010`	820	$61,200	9.05
Coaches and Scouts `27-2022`	100	$49,240	1.43
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders `51-9124`	70	$46,130	1.60
Compliance Officers (7 O*NET occupations) `13-1041`	50	$76,530	0.41
Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators `51-9161`	40	$49,860	0.97
Computer Systems Analysts (2 O*NET occupations) `15-1211`	80	$80,190	0.57
Computer User Support Specialists `15-1232`	80	$57,580	0.42
Computer and Information Systems Managers `11-3021`	60	$133,150	0.35
Construction Laborers `47-2061`	200	$54,830	0.68
Construction Managers `11-9021`	80	$92,820	0.79
Cooks, Fast Food `35-2011`	80	$31,900	0.46
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria `35-2012`	230	$35,200	1.96
Cooks, Restaurant `35-2014`	320	$35,560	0.84
Cost Estimators `13-1051`	60	$75,230	1.03
Counter and Rental Clerks `41-2021`	60	$35,600	0.57
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks `43-4031`	80	$44,600	1.55
Customer Service Representatives `43-4051`	480	$40,490	0.68
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic `51-4031`	50	$46,940	1.09
Data Entry Keyers `43-9021`	70	$38,790	1.95
Dental Assistants `31-9091`	60	$45,610	0.56
Dental Hygienists `29-1292`	50	$78,430	0.78
Dentists, General `29-1021`	40	$137,390	1.06
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers `35-9011`	130	$31,200	0.86
Dishwashers `35-9021`	110	$31,200	0.88
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance `43-5032`	40	$48,730	0.66
Driver/Sales Workers `53-3031`	70	$32,280	0.62
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary `11-9032`	130	$99,470	1.43
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors `21-1012`	100	$54,860	1.06
Electricians `47-2111`	140	$105,500	0.66
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2021`	360	$57,980	0.94
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants `43-6011`	60	$67,450	0.45
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors `39-9031`	70	$35,040	0.82
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic `51-4021`	50	$49,280	3.31
Facilities Managers (2 O*NET occupations) `11-3013`	60	$93,590	1.31
Fast Food and Counter Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `35-3023`	1,220	$31,220	1.16
Financial Managers (3 O*NET occupations) `11-3031`	170	$127,470	0.75
Financial and Investment Analysts `13-2051`	40	$84,370	0.37
Firefighters `33-2011`	120	$59,850	1.32
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (2 O*NET occupations) `47-1011`	140	$100,640	0.62
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers `33-1021`	30	$91,720	1.21
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers `35-1012`	370	$37,320	1.11
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers `49-1011`	140	$69,420	0.85
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers `41-1012`	30	$76,780	0.59
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers `43-1011`	220	$60,020	0.58
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers `51-1011`	300	$74,240	1.64
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers `41-1011`	330	$44,750	1.08
First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors (5 O*NET occupations) `53-1047`	140	$60,600	0.80
Food Batchmakers `51-3092`	100	$38,270	2.11
Food Preparation Workers `35-2021`	270	$31,200	1.10
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant `35-3041`	240	$32,430	2.95
Food Service Managers `11-9051`	100	$60,420	1.58
General and Operations Managers `11-1021`	970	$93,310	1.01
Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic `51-4033`	40	$44,130	1.93
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists `39-5012`	40	$31,200	0.52
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other (4 O*NET occupations) `29-2099`	70	$47,450	1.34
Healthcare Social Workers `21-1022`	50	$58,400	0.91
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers `49-9021`	50	$62,570	0.48
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers `53-3032`	760	$46,750	1.35
Highway Maintenance Workers `47-4051`	100	$73,080	2.35
Home Health and Personal Care Aides (2 O*NET occupations) `31-1120`	590	$37,380	0.50
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop `35-9031`	140	$31,200	1.18
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks `43-4081`	60	$31,400	0.83
Human Resources Managers `11-3121`	60	$121,560	0.97
Human Resources Specialists `13-1071`	160	$63,720	0.66
Industrial Engineers (4 O*NET occupations) `17-2112`	80	$94,690	0.81
Industrial Machinery Mechanics `49-9041`	130	$62,410	1.12
Industrial Production Managers (6 O*NET occupations) `11-3051`	120	$124,070	1.82
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators `53-7051`	200	$46,320	0.95
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers `51-9061`	260	$48,880	1.61
Instructional Coordinators `25-9031`	80	$60,300	1.27
Insurance Sales Agents `41-3021`	70	$58,340	0.56
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners `37-2011`	570	$36,000	0.95
Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2012`	40	$56,960	1.33
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (2 O*NET occupations) `53-7062`	1,190	$37,110	1.48
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers `37-3011`	220	$37,100	0.84
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers `51-6011`	80	$34,610	1.48
Lawyers `23-1011`	50	$107,030	0.27
Librarians and Media Collections Specialists `25-4022`	50	$56,090	1.39
Library Assistants, Clerical `43-4121`	130	$33,290	5.54
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses `29-2061`	240	$65,910	1.34
Light Truck Drivers `53-3033`	270	$42,030	1.00
Loan Interviewers and Clerks `43-4131`	50	$47,560	1.08
Loan Officers `13-2072`	80	$62,570	1.11
Logisticians (3 O*NET occupations) `13-1081`	50	$77,460	0.79
Machinists `51-4041`	100	$47,930	1.33
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners `37-2012`	300	$34,510	1.26
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General `49-9071`	520	$58,400	1.24
Management Analysts `13-1111`	Not available	$83,650
Managers, All Other (7 O*NET occupations) `11-9199`	100	$109,340	0.61
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (2 O*NET occupations) `13-1161`	100	$56,110	0.40
Marketing Managers `11-2021`	40	$121,310	0.38
Mechanical Engineers (3 O*NET occupations) `17-2141`	40	$81,840	0.52
Medical Assistants `31-9092`	210	$38,440	0.94
Medical Records Specialists `29-2072`	40	$56,450	0.81
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants `43-6013`	320	$37,660	1.22
Medical and Health Services Managers `11-9111`	250	$103,720	1.56
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education `25-2022`	280	$59,800	1.63
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators (2 O*NET occupations) `51-2090`	500	$38,120	1.31
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders `51-9023`	210	$48,930	8.09
Network and Computer Systems Administrators `15-1244`	50	$79,310	0.55
Nurse Practitioners `29-1171`	100	$128,320	1.12
Nursing Assistants `31-1131`	860	$37,900	2.18
Occupational Therapists (2 O*NET occupations) `29-1122`	40	$79,620	0.91
Office Clerks, General `43-9061`	560	$40,450	0.83
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators `47-2073`	90	$94,270	0.70
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders `51-9111`	800	$45,480	7.77
Packers and Packagers, Hand `53-7064`	120	$32,370	0.76
Parking Attendants `53-6021`	30	$31,270	0.83
Parts Salespersons `41-2022`	100	$36,460	1.33
Pharmacists `29-1051`	90	$140,960	1.06
Pharmacy Technicians `29-2052`	160	$39,190	1.25
Phlebotomists `31-9097`	540	$40,230	13.87
Physical Therapist Assistants `31-2021`	40	$64,960	1.33
Physical Therapists `29-1123`	60	$99,770	0.87
Physicians, All Other (7 O*NET occupations) `29-1229`	200	$400,280	2.18
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters (2 O*NET occupations) `47-2152`	110	$81,620	0.88
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers (2 O*NET occupations) `33-3051`	190	$78,840	1.06
Postal Service Mail Carriers `43-5052`	120	$57,030	1.33
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education `25-2011`	190	$38,030	1.47
Production Workers, All Other `51-9199`	130	$47,890	1.85
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks `43-5061`	100	$55,580	0.93
Project Management Specialists `13-1082`	70	$95,790	0.25
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers `11-9141`	80	Not available	1.00
Public Safety Telecommunicators `43-5031`	50	$61,010	1.88
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians `29-2034`	70	$75,620	1.06
Receptionists and Information Clerks `43-4171`	310	$35,620	1.26
Recreation Workers `39-9032`	90	$36,270	0.98
Registered Nurses (5 O*NET occupations) `29-1141`	1,390	$86,220	1.51
Rehabilitation Counselors `21-1015`	60	$53,060	2.22
Residential Advisors `39-9041`	30	$37,530	1.40
Respiratory Therapists `29-1126`	60	$84,490	1.47
Retail Salespersons `41-2031`	1,140	$32,650	1.07
Sales Managers `11-2022`	120	$135,330	0.70
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel `41-3091`	220	$55,410	0.66
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products `41-4012`	350	$66,500	1.03
School Bus Monitors `33-9094`	60	$31,200	2.65
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education `25-2031`	420	$48,500	1.45
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive `43-6014`	540	$44,740	1.16
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents `41-3031`	70	$56,730	0.54
Security Guards `33-9032`	310	$35,380	0.89
Self-Enrichment Teachers `25-3021`	50	$43,980	0.58
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks `43-5071`	240	$42,240	1.09
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs `53-3053`	60	$35,580	0.91
Social and Community Service Managers `11-9151`	50	$77,680	0.93
Social and Human Service Assistants `21-1093`	230	$43,250	1.93
Software Developers `15-1252`	60	$116,550	0.13
Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School (2 O*NET occupations) `25-2052`	110	$61,420	1.59
Special Education Teachers, Middle School `25-2057`	50	$57,620	1.76
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School `25-2058`	100	$62,610	2.31
Speech-Language Pathologists `29-1127`	50	$77,210	1.06
Stockers and Order Fillers `53-7065`	770	$33,110	1.00
Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors (2 O*NET occupations) `21-1018`	130	$59,440	0.94
Substitute Teachers, Short-Term `25-3031`	200	$36,700	1.40
Surgical Technologists `29-2055`	40	$59,940	1.33
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary (3 O*NET occupations) `25-9045`	590	$35,430	1.52
Tellers `43-3071`	140	$37,360	1.52
Training and Development Specialists `13-1151`	110	$63,770	0.86
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (2 O*NET occupations) `11-3071`	40	$107,910	0.72
Waiters and Waitresses `35-3031`	550	$31,200	0.89
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators `51-8031`	70	$59,870	2.12
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers `51-4121`	230	$47,460	2.02
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing `51-7042`	110	$37,850	6.63