The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In Illinois For 2023

By Chris Kolmar
Apr. 14, 2023

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Ever wonder who gets paid the most? Or how much your dentist makes for all the pain they put you through?

We had that same burning desire to know more about the highest paid professions in Illinois. And if you can’t tell by that sentence, we’re a bit of what you’d call data nerds.

After the data science team did a thorough analysis of the data, we discovered that Staff Psychiatrist are the highest paid people in Illinois.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in Illinois:

  1. Staff Psychiatrist
  2. Finance Services Director
  3. Chief Medical Officer
  4. Primary Care Pediatrician
  5. Medical Director
  6. Vice President, Corporate Development
  7. Anesthesiologist, Pain Management Specialist
  8. Acute Care Physician
  9. Associate Medical Director
  10. Senior Vice President Of Marketing

How we determined the highest paid jobs in Illinois For 2023

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2023 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Foreign Labor Certification Data Center (FLC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and others. The data science team then supplements that data by continuously scanning through millions of job postings each day to find published salaries. We match these published salaries to the companies, locations, and job titles in other datasets. Finally, the data science team calculates a weighted average of these inputs to produce an estimated salary for the particular job title in Illinois.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 1384 jobs in Illinois in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In Illinois

Rank Job Title Average Salary Entry Level Salary # Of People
1 Staff Psychiatrist $223,082 $172,000 1,264
2 Finance Services Director $216,899 $171,000 3,174
3 Chief Medical Officer $216,019 $163,000 3,721
4 Primary Care Pediatrician $214,739 $163,000 1,875
5 Medical Director $207,402 $154,000 2,226
6 Vice President, Corporate Development $204,379 $149,000 1,370
7 Anesthesiologist, Pain Management Specialist $199,940 $142,000 1,157
8 Acute Care Physician $196,519 $140,000 2,195
9 Associate Medical Director $193,398 $137,000 2,171
10 Senior Vice President Of Marketing $192,727 $136,000 2,597
11 Senior Vice President-Operations $192,327 $135,000 1,915
12 Vice President Of National Accounts $190,370 $136,000 2,070
13 Senior Vice President, Sales $189,434 $134,000 1,986
14 Chief Administrative Officer $187,470 $131,000 1,812
15 Senior Vice President $186,605 $130,000 1,585
16 Director Of Enterprise Sales $186,396 $131,000 1,672
17 Hospitalist Medical Director $186,057 $126,000 1,662
18 Medical Consultant $185,098 $126,000 1,870
19 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist $184,614 $125,000 1,433
20 Internal Medicine Physician $184,417 $129,000 1,140
21 Vice President Worldwide Sales $183,594 $127,000 1,733
22 Pain Management Physician $183,219 $122,000 2,007
23 Primary Care Physician $183,182 $126,000 2,226
24 Family Practice Physician $182,687 $127,000 1,002
25 Vice President, Field Operations $181,877 $123,000 2,100
26 Executive Vice President $180,633 $121,000 3,136
27 Medical Staff Physician $179,700 $121,000 3,448
28 Executive Director, Information Technology $179,537 $124,000 3,233
29 Staff Physician $179,509 $123,000 1,630
30 President $177,899 $121,000 1,144
31 Executive Vice President Marketing $177,661 $119,000 3,526
32 Global Vice President Of Sales $176,984 $123,000 1,741
33 Staff Anesthesiologist $176,769 $114,000 1,165
34 Director Information Technology Infrastructure $176,114 $126,000 1,706
35 Correctional Officer Chief $174,123 $114,000 1,497
36 Revenue Officer $173,286 $113,000 1,429
37 Physician Extender $172,174 $111,000 1,143
38 President Of Operations $170,692 $113,000 1,811
39 Director, Hardware Engineering $170,443 $124,000 1,008
40 Operations Vice President $170,097 $115,000 1,979
41 Director, Global Marketing $169,378 $119,000 1,723
42 Vice President Of Information Technology $168,620 $116,000 2,471
43 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist $168,257 $113,000 6,861
44 Occupational Medicine Physician $167,838 $107,000 1,249
45 Physical Medicine Physician $167,551 $107,000 1,372
46 President & Chief Operating Officer $167,159 $108,000 3,043
47 President & Chief Technology Officer $166,904 $114,000 3,412
48 Corporate Vice President $165,818 $118,000 1,861
49 Emergency Management Director $164,767 $105,000 1,584
50 Global Director $163,704 $113,000 1,819
51 Chiropractic Physician $163,446 $104,000 1,097
52 Vice President, Product Management $162,863 $115,000 4,201
53 Vice President & General Manager $161,588 $108,000 4,293
54 Senior Vice President, Engineering $161,572 $111,000 1,920
55 Vice President, Products & Marketing $161,201 $114,000 2,470
56 Chief Executive Officer $161,050 $103,000 3,804
57 Executive Creative Director $160,815 $101,000 1,878
58 Economics Teacher $160,567 $107,000 1,379
59 Executive Vice President Of Operations $159,805 $103,000 3,668
60 Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer $159,368 $107,000 2,515
61 Director Of Sales, Americas $159,134 $110,000 1,597
62 Human Resources Vice President $158,771 $110,000 1,695
63 Vice President-Products $158,761 $106,000 2,359
64 Senior Director Human Resources $158,735 $114,000 1,060
65 Commercial Director $157,641 $106,000 2,449
66 Director Of Account Management $157,600 $108,000 3,192
67 Head Of Human Resources $157,585 $106,000 1,028
68 Head Of Sales $156,641 $105,000 1,311
69 Marketing Vice President $156,588 $109,000 2,141
70 In-House Physician $155,614 $96,000 1,066
71 Vice President $155,182 $106,000 2,188
72 Chief Technology Officer $153,785 $101,000 2,779
73 Group Vice President $153,584 $102,000 1,189
74 Vice President, Business Development $153,563 $100,000 2,318
75 Vice President Of Programming $153,166 $105,000 1,165
76 Chief Creative Officer $152,844 $92,000 1,150
77 Emergency Medicine, Physician Assistant $151,160 $97,000 1,091
78 Sales Vice President $151,073 $100,000 2,222
79 Director, Strategic Alliances $150,936 $105,000 1,652
80 Medical Manager $150,712 $92,000 2,778
81 Public Health Dentist $150,707 $93,000 5,390
82 Head Of Marketing $150,275 $102,000 1,389
83 Sales Officer $149,753 $105,000 3,183
84 Division Vice President $149,563 $100,000 1,684
85 Surgical Physician Assistant $149,489 $95,000 1,005
86 Area Vice President $149,197 $98,000 1,355
87 Director Of Global Sales $148,996 $102,000 1,689
88 Vice President Of Sales & Operations $148,819 $102,000 2,357
89 Credit Risk Management Director $148,544 $100,000 1,642
90 Director Of Information Management $148,461 $103,000 2,741
91 Director, Applications $148,368 $113,000 1,164
92 Client Services Vice President $147,960 $100,000 2,519
93 Senior Director, Product $147,834 $110,000 2,190
94 Director, Managing Consultant $147,681 $106,000 2,571
95 Global Supply Chain Director $147,619 $102,000 1,034
96 Senior Director, Product Marketing $147,420 $107,000 2,184
97 Vice President, Consulting Services $147,403 $106,000 2,019
98 General Internal Medicine Physician $147,032 $88,000 1,072
99 Chief Strategy Officer $146,979 $95,000 1,288
100 Senior Business Analyst Lead $146,555 $96,000 1,506
Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2023. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in Illinois

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Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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