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Chicago Police Department

Headcount, pay, and awarded contracts for the Chicago Police Department, computed live from the City of Chicago's open data. Salaried and hourly employees are reported separately, because the city records only one of the two pay fields for each person.

12,157

People on the payroll

Salaried and hourly combined

$115,158

Median salaried pay

Across 12,121 salaried staff

$118,207

Average salaried pay

Excludes hourly employees

$1,432,784,886

Total salaried payroll

Annual, before benefits

Hourly staff

36

Hourly employees

$17.05

Median hourly rate

$23.15

Average hourly rate

Hourly rates are not annualized here. Actual annual earnings depend on hours worked and overtime, neither of which the payroll extract publishes.

Most common job titles in the Chicago Police Department

  1. Police Officer7,835
  2. Sergeant1,292
  3. Police Officer (Assigned As Detective)1,145
  4. Police Officer / Fld Trng Officer336
  5. Lieutenant271
  6. Detention Aide162
  7. Police Officer (Assigned As Evidence Technician)115
  8. Police Administrative Clerk73
  9. Training Officer64
  10. Police Officer (Assigned As (Swat)57

Contracts awarded

The city's contracts dataset records 3,306 contract actions naming the Chicago Police Department, with award amounts totaling $741,780,038. Award amounts can be negative when a contract is revised downward or funds are de-obligated, so the total is a net figure rather than a spending total. Departments are named slightly differently in the contracts and payroll datasets, so this covers contracts filed under the exact name "CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT".

  1. Sutton Ford, Inc.$49,186,744
    POLICE AND FIRE MARKED/UNMARKED VEHICLESApproved Mar 28, 2003
  2. V H Blackinton & Co., Inc$44,737,984
    STARS, SHIELDS AND BADGESApproved Jun 10, 2014
  3. Taser International$40,000,000
    Taser International - New Sole Source ContractApproved Jan 24, 2018
  4. Axon Enterprise Inc$39,815,436
    Taser International - New Sole Source ContractApproved Jun 24, 2026
  5. Shotspotter Inc$33,000,000
    AREA ACOUSTIC GUN SHOT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMApproved Aug 22, 2018

Sources

Pay figures are base pay only — no overtime, benefits, or pension costs. Medians are the middle record of the ordered list, computed over employees with that pay field filled in.

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Chicago Police Department FAQ

How many people work for the Chicago Police Department?
The City of Chicago's payroll extract lists 12,157 employees in the Chicago Police Department — 12,121 paid an annual salary and 36 paid an hourly rate. The city republishes the extract periodically, so the figure moves as people are hired and leave.
What does the Chicago Police Department pay?
Median pay for salaried employees in the Chicago Police Department is $115,158 a year, and the average is $118,207. Hourly employees are reported separately, at a median rate of $17.05 an hour. These are base pay figures — they do not include overtime, benefits, or pension costs.
What jobs does the Chicago Police Department employ?
The most common job titles in the Chicago Police Department are Police Officer, Sergeant, Police Officer (Assigned As Detective), Police Officer / Fld Trng Officer, Lieutenant. The full list of titles in the department, with headcount for each, is ranked on this page.
How much has the Chicago Police Department awarded in contracts?
The city's contracts dataset records 3,306 contract actions naming the Chicago Police Department, totaling $741,780,038 in award amounts. That total is a net figure: revisions and de-obligations are recorded as negative award amounts, so it is not the same as total spending.