Chicago fleets advertise 27% above the national benchmark: the advertised Truck Driver median runs $74.7K vs the $58.6K BLS figure — big-metro premium plus projected driver earnings. The 10 occupations Chicago hires most, each with the BLS check.
The advertised Truck Driver median in Chicago runs $74.7K this quarter vs the national BLS figure of $58.6K — a big-metro premium plus projected driver earnings (mileage and sign-on) baked into advertised offers. The rest of the metro's ten most-hired occupations: Registered Nurse $33.92–$48.10/hr ($43.33/hr), Application Developer $91.5K–$148.4K ($115K), Project Manager $81.7K–$126.8K ($105.8K), Physical Therapist $94.9K–$117.5K ($104K), Warehouse Associate $16.31–$20.36/hr ($18.00/hr), and more.
Every advertised median printed next to its government benchmark: Truck Driver +27.5%, PT +3.0%, RN −3.7%, Warehouse Associate −0.7%, Application Developer −13.6%. The gap is information, not error — postings measure the hiring market, not the incumbent one. Full table in the PDF. BLS OEWS reports May 2025; these are postings from April–June 2026.
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Source: WageScape / MarketTrak — advertised-posting data from public job postings, April 1–June 30, 2026 (single quarter; no period-over-period claims). Sample: 115,513 postings across the metro's 10 highest-volume distinct occupations (vague titles excluded; overlapping title conventions consolidated to one row per occupation; rows publish only at n≥500 and above the state wage floor). Every role is a P25/P50/P75 band, never a lone median; hourly-native roles quoted per hour. Pay levels are modeled from postings; the BLS check prints each median next to the BLS OEWS benchmark with deltas computed from the printed values. Aggregates only; every figure reproduces from a saved, dated query snapshot.
WageScape / MarketTrak, Q2 2026 · BLS check: OEWS May 2025
