SOC 17-3027 · Architecture and Engineering Occupations · May 2025
How much do Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians make in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?
BLS did not publish a median wage for Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN in the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026. Employment is 500. A withheld estimate is not treated as zero and is not replaced with the national median, the state median, or a wage from another metro.
Median annual wage
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Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.
Price-adjusted pay
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has not published a 2024 all-items regional price parity for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, so this page does not show a price-adjusted wage.
Nearby metros
No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.
Employment share
Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN (500 of 4,513,280). Nationally the occupation is 0.02% of employment (36,190 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.48 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.
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Questions this page answers
Why is the wage for Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN not available?
The occupation is in the May 2025 metropolitan tables for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, and BLS did not publish the median wage. A withheld estimate is shown as not available. It is not treated as zero and it is not replaced with another area's wage.