Chicago · United States
Operations Manager salary in Chicago
The median salary in Operations Manager job ads in Chicago, United States is $146,500 a year (about $12,208 a month before tax). The middle half of those ads list $127,250 to $170,275, based on 9 salaries from 8 employers, updated 8 Nov 2026.
Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
General and Operations Managers: official pay in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, May 2025
In the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, general and operations managers (SOC 11-1021) earned a median $109,390 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 9 job ads for Chicago jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $146,500.
- 10th percentile
- $58,000
- 25th percentile
- $76,900
- Median
- $109,390
- 75th percentile
- $175,170
- 90th percentile
- $298,090
Jobiba's job-ad median is 34% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Chime Financial, Inc. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.
Occupation: General and Operations Managers (SOC 11-1021) · 122,930 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan statistical area, all industries and employer sizes (self-employed excluded) — not only jobs that are advertised. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (metropolitan area data) (public domain), retrieved 1 Nov 2026.
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- Median in job ads
- $146,500
- a year
- 12-month range
- High $146,500
- Oct 2026
- Low $146,500 · Oct 2026
- Salaries
- 9
- from 8 employers
- Last updated
- 8 Nov 2026
- 12-month window to 8 Nov 2026
Salary range
Where pay sits in Chicago
- 10th percentile
- $111,600
- 25th percentile
- $127,250
- Median
- $146,500
- 75th percentile
- $170,275
- 90th percentile
- $183,300
9 salaries · 13 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.
Compared with the United States median of 569 salaries: up +17.2%
Based on 9 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 8 Nov 2026
Pay listed by employers
Latest Operations Manager jobs that show their pay in Chicago
Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.
- Sr. Marketing Operations ManagerOpenGov · Senior level · posted 7 Nov 2026$160,000 – $180,550
- Site Operations ManagerJLL India (Jones Lang LaSalle) · Senior level · posted 31 Oct 2026$97,000 – $115,000
- Operations Manager, Factor ProcurementHelloFresh · Senior level · posted 29 Oct 2026$101,000 – $125,000
- Senior Incident Operations ManagerChime Financial, Inc · Senior level · posted 17 Oct 2026$141,000 – $195,000
- Incident Operations ManagerChime Financial, Inc · posted 17 Oct 2026$123,000 – $170,000
Evidence
Where these numbers come from
9 salaries from 8 employers, posted between 8 Nov 2025 and 8 Nov 2026. Last updated 8 Nov 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.
- Employer hiring-system feeds 89%
- Pay read from posting text 11%
Frequently asked questions
Operations Manager salary in Chicago: common questions
What is the average Operations Manager salary in Chicago in 2026?
In the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, general and operations managers (SOC 11-1021) earned a median $109,390 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 9 job ads for Chicago jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $146,500. The middle half of those job ads pay between $127,250 and $170,275 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
Why is Operations Manager pay in job ads different from the BLS figure?
Jobiba's job-ad median is 34% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Chime Financial, Inc. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.
How does Operations Manager pay in Chicago compare with the United States median?
The Operations Manager median in Chicago is +17.2% versus the United States median for the same role on Jobiba.
How does Jobiba calculate Operations Manager salary in Chicago?
From 9 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.