- The middle half earn between $39.69 and $59.84 an hour.
- Only 1 state pays construction supervisors more at the median.
- Illinois pays more than all 5 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 19,340 construction supervisors on payrolls in Illinois.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $159.87 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Illinois, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $30.05 | $62,500 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $39.69 | $82,550 | $30.48 |
| Median | $50.84 | $105,750 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $59.84 | $124,460 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $63.75 | $132,590 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $49.74 | $103,450 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Illinois. The top tenth earn $63.75 an hour or more, about 2.1 times the $30.05 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 2.4 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
Both ends of the scale beat the national figures: $30.05 against $25.62 at the bottom tenth, and $63.75 against $61.66 at the top.
The average wage ($49.74) is a little under the median, so the low end of the range stretches further than the high end in Illinois.
How Illinois compares with other states
Over a full year, the Illinois median of $105,750 is $25,830 more than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, Illinois sits 2nd, between Washington ($52.68) and New Jersey ($50.73). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Illinois pays construction supervisors more than any of its neighboring states, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin. Someone working near the border can earn more by taking work on this side of it.
These are wages as paid, not adjusted for what it costs to live in Illinois. Rent, home prices and taxes decide how far a higher wage goes.
How many construction supervisors work in Illinois
About 19,340 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Illinois, 2.4% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 13th largest count among the states.
It is a smaller part of local jobs than in most of the country, at 3.2 per 1,000 jobs, 0.61 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Illinois should charge
Higher wages in Illinois go straight into the price. Take a contracting business in Illinois paying the state median of $50.84 and run it through the labor rate calculator with its starting numbers (40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit).
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $50.84 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $113,837 |
| Break-even rate | ($113,837 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $135.89 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $135.89 ÷ 0.85 | $159.87 |
That is $159.87 per billable hour, 3.1 times the wage, and $21.81 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $59.84 in Illinois, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $175.68.
At this wage the pay itself is the biggest part of the price, so every raise shows up in the rate: a dollar more an hour adds about $1.76 per billed hour.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.