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2025 Employment Service
Mission Statement Encourage economic growth and stability in Illinois by providing vital employment services to Illinois residents and employers.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Develop and maintain active employer outreach and engagement with job-seekers.
    1. To reduce the number of UI claimants exhausting benefits before becoming reemployed, 70% of RESEA claimants will receive at least staff assisted service.
    2. Meet or exceed the federal Veterans priority of service target (48%).
    3. Meet or exceed the federal performance goal for participants employed 2nd quarter after exit (65%).
    4. Meet or exceed the federal performance goal for participants employed 4th quarter after exit (66%).
    5. Meet or exceed federal performance goal for veterans employed 2nd quarter after exit (58%).
Source of Funds Federal Title III Social Security and Employment Service Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 1015/0.01-15
Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 58,219.9 $ 56,959.9 $ 59,846.3 $ 58,551.2 $ 59,678.2
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 58,219.9 $ 56,959.9 $ 59,846.3 $ 58,551.2 $ 59,678.2
Average monthly full-time equivalents 247.0 229.0 232.0 232.0 234.0
Output Indicators
Number of individuals who received a staff-assisted service 30,000 29,546 26,000 25,726 19,393
Job openings (a) 675,000 889,834 600,000 1,028,377 1,322,431
Number UI claimants who completed RESEA services 22,000 20,250 18,600 18,449 13,678
Number Veterans receiving staff-assisted services 3,100 3,067 3,000 2,958 2,583
Outcome Indicators
Participants employed 2nd quarter after exit 66.00% 65.50% 65.00% 69.30% 68.40%
Participants employed 4th quarter after exit 70.00% 70.20% 66.00% 71.70% 70.00%
Veterans employed 2nd quarter after exit 58.00% 54.20% 58.00% 59.00% 70.00%
Participants' median earnings 2nd quarter after exit (in dollars) $ 8,100.00 $ 9,187.00 $ 8,100.00 $ 8,980.00 $ 8,732.00
Footnotes
Several factors have contributed to the decrease in job openings: less employers entering job openings in Illinois JobLink (IJL), less job orders for staff to enter in IJL, less jobs coming over from the National Labor Exchange System, and jobs not available.

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