City salaries
Chicago, IL
Salary bands for the professions we track in Chicago, IL, with their AI automation risk.
47 professions
Professions in Chicago, IL
- Software Engineer$128,500Medium · n=4381
- Data Analyst$110,000High · n=1342
- Data Scientist$110,000Medium · n=1342
- Accountant$92,379Critical · n=814
- QA Tester$95,000High · n=629
- Management Analyst$152,000Medium · n=609
- Operations Research Analyst$133,300High · n=571
- Computer Systems Analyst$101,962Critical · n=473
- Programmer$89,600Medium · n=445
- Information Security Analyst$120,238Critical · n=262
- Market Research Analyst$82,000High · n=257
- Data Engineer$136,885High · n=195
- Database Architect$136,885High · n=195
- Lawyer$175,511Medium · n=114
- Financial Manager$185,047Medium · n=99
- Marketing Manager$160,000Medium · n=99
- Electrical Engineer$110,000High · n=96
- Industrial Engineer$104,416High · n=89
- Web and Digital Interface Designer$69,200High · n=87
- Nurse$76,877Low · n=80
- Computer and Information Research Scientist$139,898High · n=76
- Logistician$100,000High · n=71
- Graphic Designer$75,432High · n=51
- General and Operations Manager$120,000Medium · n=47
- Commercial and Industrial Designer$77,563Low · n=47
- Therapist$81,058Low · n=46
- Natural Sciences Manager$71,328Medium · n=42
- Computer Network Architect$140,000Critical · n=38
- Architectural and Engineering Manager$161,006Medium · n=38
- Teacher$66,307Low · n=38
- Sales Manager$140,000Medium · n=35
- HR Specialist$112,505Medium · n=29
- Logistics Manager$139,984Medium · n=27
- Compliance Officer$78,000Medium · n=27
- Warehouse Worker$42,640Critical · n=23
- Credit Analyst$99,002Medium · n=16
- Industrial Production Manager$170,675Medium · n=16
- Social and Community Service Manager$56,500Medium · n=16
- Art Director$112,500Medium · n=14
- Contract Reviewer$56,160Critical · n=13
- Paralegal$56,160High · n=13
- Legal Assistant$56,160High · n=13
- Maintenance and Repair Worker$43,332Critical · n=10
- Copywriter$59,000High · n=10
- Content Writer$59,000High · n=10
- Web Developer$87,402Medium · n=10
- Advertising and Promotions Manager$137,800Medium · n=10
Live demand · August 10, 2026
What Chicago, IL is hiring right now
AI risk of jobs being hired in Chicago, IL:58.5/100HighNational average: 68/100
Collected weekly through our own intake pipeline across live job postings; normalised index, not absolute counts.
Most in-demand professions in Chicago, IL
Share of unique tracked postings in the latest sampled week · August 10, 2026
- 1Stocker and Order FillerMedium2 unique postings50.0% of tracked postings
- 2Retail CashierCritical1 unique postings25.0% of tracked postings
- 3Food Service ManagerHigh1 unique postings25.0% of tracked postings
Unique job postings sampled from public job boards and ATS boards (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby), week of August 10, 2026. n = 191. Not a census of the market — see methodology. See methodology
About this data
Sample of US job postings across the stratified city roster (10 metros, weekly) + public ATS boards (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby, tech-skewed). Only roster cities are published; opportunistic ATS locations are excluded. Share denominator = unique postings of the week mapped to tracked professions; postings without a SOC mapping are excluded. Dedup by (source, source_job_id). n = unique postings per week (provenance, not a market census). A SOC shared by two professions (e.g. paralegal/legal-assistant) appears in both. LLM signals are never a data source — classification is cache-first parsing (ADR-007).