Highway Maintenance Workers Salary in Kankakee, IL

Highway Maintenance Workers pay range in Kankakee

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $39,130 a year or less, while the top 10% make $100,790 or more. The middle half of highway maintenance workers in Kankakee earn between $45,680 and $78,570.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Highway Maintenance Workers salary after taxes in Kankakee

On the average salary of $67,520, a single filer in Kankakee takes home about $53,129 a year, or $4,427 a month and $2,043 every two weeks. Taxes take 21% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

Is Kankakee a good place for highway maintenance workers? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Kankakee area are 4% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.4), so the average $67,520 buys what about $70,046 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Kankakee ($45,830). A typical home costs $223,721, or 3.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Highway Maintenance Workers salary in other Illinois cities

Kankakee ranks 4th of 8 Illinois metro areas for this job; Springfield pays the most ($72,660).

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Highest-paying cities for highway maintenance workers

San Jose, CA pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($84,480).

Highway Maintenance Workers salary by city

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