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Chicago Public Library

Headcount, pay, and awarded contracts for the Chicago Public Library, 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.

1,089

People on the payroll

Salaried and hourly combined

$88,524

Median salaried pay

Across 776 salaried staff

$90,849

Average salaried pay

Excludes hourly employees

$70,499,076

Total salaried payroll

Annual, before benefits

Hourly staff

313

Hourly employees

$19.05

Median hourly rate

$23.12

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 Public Library

  1. Library Page182
  2. Librarian I147
  3. Library Clerk112
  4. Librarian IV91
  5. Head Library Clerk85
  6. Librarian III79
  7. Library Associate - Hourly66
  8. Librarian II63
  9. Library Clerk - Hourly56
  10. Library Associate51

Contracts awarded

The city's contracts dataset records 1,591 contract actions naming the Chicago Public Library, with award amounts totaling $350,208,619. 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY".

  1. Public Building Commission Chicago$100,000,000
    Building Costs: New and Renovated CPL BranchesApproved Mar 14, 2005
  2. Ingram Library Services, Inc$33,444,000
    LIBRARY MATERIALS AND SERVICES - PRINT MATERIALS AND NON-PRINT MATERIALS (AUDIOBOOKS ON CD AND MIXED MEDIA KITS)Approved Mar 24, 2016
  3. Public Building Commission Chicago$30,300,000
    Building Costs for new and renovated Chicago Public Library BranchesApproved Feb 3, 2010
  4. Public Building Commission Chicago$30,000,000
    Building Costs for new and renovated Chicago Public Library BranchesApproved Nov 28, 2007
  5. Library Corporation|Cleaned-Up$13,684,617
    Integrated Library System Development, Procurement and IntegrationApproved Aug 18, 2005

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 Public Library FAQ

How many people work for the Chicago Public Library?
The City of Chicago's payroll extract lists 1,089 employees in the Chicago Public Library — 776 paid an annual salary and 313 paid an hourly rate. The city republishes the extract periodically, so the figure moves as people are hired and leave.
What does the Chicago Public Library pay?
Median pay for salaried employees in the Chicago Public Library is $88,524 a year, and the average is $90,849. Hourly employees are reported separately, at a median rate of $19.05 an hour. These are base pay figures — they do not include overtime, benefits, or pension costs.
What jobs does the Chicago Public Library employ?
The most common job titles in the Chicago Public Library are Library Page, Librarian I, Library Clerk, Librarian IV, Head Library Clerk. The full list of titles in the department, with headcount for each, is ranked on this page.
How much has the Chicago Public Library awarded in contracts?
The city's contracts dataset records 1,591 contract actions naming the Chicago Public Library, totaling $350,208,619 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.