Employment statistics for recruiters in Chicago, Illinois

The Chicago Metropolitan Area is divided into three divisions, and recruiters are able to find qualified employees from these three separately identifiable employment areas. Between June 2014 and November 2014, the unemployment rate has progressively reduced from 7.1 % to 6.4%, leaving a pool of 421,000 people available for hire. 85% of the workforce are from the Chicago – Jolt – Naperville Metropolitan Division. The other divisions are the Lake County Kenosha County Division whose workforce grew by 4.3% between November 2013 and November 2014, and the Gary Ind. Metropolitan Division which declined in the same time period.

The fastest growing industry in the Chicago Metropolitan Area is the professional and business services industry, which showed a rise in employment of 2% from the year starting November 2013 to November 2014. The other two industries that have seen considerable growth in the same period are the construction industry with 4.3% and the leisure and hospitality industry with 1.1%.

Candidates can aim for high paying jobs in the healthcare industry, for example physicians and surgeons can earn up to $245,000 annually.As of December 2013, the top five largest employers in Chicago were the United States Government, the Chicago Public Schools, the City of Chicago, Cook County and Advocate Health Care.

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