Emergency Medical Technicians hiring difficulty in Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL scores 1.7 out of 10 for Emergency Medical Technicians, in the standard band of the public market difficulty score. In Illinois, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.3%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 28.3 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). This occupation's share of jobs in Chicago is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 1.07 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). The metro median of $44,020 a year is within 3 percent of the U.S. median of $44,470 and above the Illinois median of $42,260 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 5,610 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Chicago. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. Chicago is number 3 of 80 metros on this site by healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.

Public market difficulty score

1.7

Standard

Average of three ranked components, shown to one decimal. How this score is built

Key numbers

Metro median pay

$44,020

Illinois $42,260 · U.S. $44,470. BLS OEWS, May 2025, annual wage.

Local 75th percentile

$57,140

Illinois $49,640 · U.S. $50,100. BLS OEWS, May 2025.

Statewide hiring pace

28.3 days

All industries, Illinois, December 2025. U.S. pace 37.8 days that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Levels: 211 thousand openings and 227 thousand hires.

Statewide openings rate

3.3%

All industries, Illinois, December 2025. U.S. rate 4.0% that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Statewide figure, for every industry in the state.

Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types)

Not shown

No count for Chicago. The CMS NPPES extract (retrieved September 28, 2026) was queried in Oklahoma and Texas cities only. Where a count is shown, it covers all provider types in the metro and is the same for every role.

JOLTS on this page is a statewide, all-industry figure. It is the same number for every role in Illinois. It is a December 2025 print, matched to the U.S. total-nonfarm print for that month.

Annual pay

Metro employment 5,610 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 1.07. Metro area: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN.

Percentile	Metro	IL	U.S.
25th	$42,140	$39,430	$37,960
Median	$44,020	$42,260	$44,470
75th	$57,140	$49,640	$50,100

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.

Score components

Component	Input	Score	Reading
Local supply	1.07	4.0	Location quotient, BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component. Ranked among the 1,953 published pages.
Statewide openings rate	3.3%	0.9	Total nonfarm, all industries, Illinois, December 2025. Higher rate, higher component. Ranked among 51 states and DC.
Statewide hiring pace	28.3 days	0.2	Openings ÷ hires × 365.25 ÷ 12, from 211 thousand openings and 227 thousand hires. Higher days, higher component.

Shown score 1.7 is the average, rounded half up to one decimal. Full method

Closest metros for Emergency Medical Technicians

Straight-line miles between principal-city coordinates in the Census 2024 Gazetteer place file used by this site.

Milwaukee, WI · 86 mi Madison, WI · 124 mi Grand Rapids, MI · 129 mi Indianapolis, IN · 164 mi

This role in other metros

Emergency Medical Technicians in New York, NY · 5.3 Emergency Medical Technicians in Los Angeles, CA · 4.3 Emergency Medical Technicians in Philadelphia, PA · 3.4 Emergency Medical Technicians in Dallas, TX · 6.7 Emergency Medical Technicians in Boston, MA · 3.9 Emergency Medical Technicians in Houston, TX · 6.5

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