# Counties in Illinois by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 102 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/illinois-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cook County | 2,594,810 |
| 2 | DuPage County | 629,392 |
| 3 | Lake County | 325,826 |
| 4 | Will County | 267,868 |
| 5 | Kane County | 213,552 |
| 6 | Sangamon County | 130,936 |
| 7 | Winnebago County | 125,716 |
| 8 | Madison County | 107,517 |
| 9 | Peoria County | 101,809 |
| 10 | McHenry County | 98,058 |
| 11 | Champaign County | 95,049 |
| 12 | St. Clair County | 89,192 |
| 13 | McLean County | 87,006 |
| 14 | Rock Island County | 69,106 |
| 15 | Tazewell County | 46,709 |
| 16 | Macon County | 45,164 |
| 17 | Kankakee County | 41,919 |
| 18 | LaSalle County | 38,720 |
| 19 | DeKalb County | 36,506 |
| 20 | Adams County | 32,380 |
| 21 | Kendall County | 30,845 |
| 22 | Williamson County | 29,573 |
| 23 | Jackson County | 27,609 |
| 24 | Vermilion County | 25,378 |
| 25 | Coles County | 23,624 |
| 26 | Effingham County | 23,401 |
| 27 | Grundy County | 22,954 |
| 28 | Whiteside County | 20,285 |
| 29 | Jefferson County | 19,432 |
| 30 | Stephenson County | 17,408 |
| 31 | Knox County | 17,188 |
| 32 | Ogle County | 14,427 |
| 33 | Morgan County | 14,194 |
| 34 | Henry County | 13,972 |
| 35 | Livingston County | 13,918 |
| 36 | Clinton County | 12,725 |
| 37 | Lee County | 12,642 |
| 38 | Marion County | 12,335 |
| 39 | Boone County | 11,310 |
| 40 | Woodford County | 11,272 |
| 41 | Randolph County | 11,252 |
| 42 | Bureau County | 10,021 |
| 43 | McDonough County | 9,955 |
| 44 | Macoupin County | 9,921 |
| 45 | Christian County | 9,275 |
| 46 | Franklin County | 9,002 |
| 47 | Montgomery County | 8,847 |
| 48 | Fulton County | 8,639 |
| 49 | Monroe County | 8,577 |
| 50 | Saline County | 8,189 |
| 51 | Logan County | 7,636 |
| 52 | Crawford County | 7,629 |
| 53 | Douglas County | 7,574 |
| 54 | Jo Daviess County | 7,551 |
| 55 | Edgar County | 7,158 |
| 56 | Iroquois County | 7,015 |
| 57 | Warren County | 6,346 |
| 58 | Washington County | 6,218 |
| 59 | Richland County | 5,731 |
| 60 | Ford County | 5,525 |
| 61 | Union County | 5,238 |
| 62 | Moultrie County | 5,171 |
| 63 | Jersey County | 5,105 |
| 64 | De Witt County | 5,070 |
| 65 | Fayette County | 4,954 |
| 66 | Shelby County | 4,919 |
| 67 | Brown County | 4,825 |
| 68 | Clay County | 4,691 |
| 69 | Cass County | 4,595 |
| 70 | Bond County | 4,518 |
| 71 | Perry County | 4,433 |
| 72 | Clark County | 4,304 |
| 73 | Hancock County | 4,257 |
| 74 | Carroll County | 4,081 |
| 75 | White County | 4,075 |
| 76 | Lawrence County | 4,008 |
| 77 | Wayne County | 3,958 |
| 78 | Pike County | 3,819 |
| 79 | Piatt County | 3,776 |
| 80 | Wabash County | 3,339 |
| 81 | Mercer County | 3,190 |
| 82 | Cumberland County | 2,889 |
| 83 | Marshall County | 2,864 |
| 84 | Massac County | 2,853 |
| 85 | Mason County | 2,829 |
| 86 | Johnson County | 2,715 |
| 87 | Greene County | 2,255 |
| 88 | Jasper County | 2,147 |
| 89 | Hamilton County | 2,071 |
| 90 | Putnam County | 2,002 |
| 91 | Menard County | 1,858 |
| 92 | Schuyler County | 1,715 |
| 93 | Edwards County | 1,693 |
| 94 | Stark County | 1,673 |
| 95 | Pulaski County | 1,221 |
| 96 | Henderson County | 1,176 |
| 97 | Scott County | 927 |
| 98 | Gallatin County | 902 |
| 99 | Alexander County | 859 |
| 100 | Hardin County | 780 |
| 101 | Calhoun County | 744 |
| 102 | Pope County | 432 |