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Office of Emergency Management and Communications

Headcount, pay, and awarded contracts for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, 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.

869

People on the payroll

Salaried and hourly combined

$86,772

Median salaried pay

Across 682 salaried staff

$90,549

Average salaried pay

Excludes hourly employees

$61,754,214

Total salaried payroll

Annual, before benefits

Hourly staff

187

Hourly employees

$25.54

Median hourly rate

$25.54

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 Office of Emergency Management and Communications

  1. Police Communications Operator II217
  2. Traffic Control Aide-Hourly187
  3. Police Communications Operator I164
  4. Traffic Control Aide49
  5. Fire Communications Operator I46
  6. Communications Operator I - 31131
  7. Supervising Traffic Control Aide25
  8. Supervising Police Communications Operator25
  9. Fire Communications Operator II25
  10. Senior Emergency Management Coord19

Contracts awarded

The city's contracts dataset records 611 contract actions naming the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, with award amounts totaling $1,038,666,215. 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 "OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS".

  1. Northrop Grumman It, Inc$91,800,000
    HARDWARE/SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE FOR CAD SYSTEMApproved Nov 14, 2006
  2. Tritech Software Systems$74,909,640
    COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH (CAD) SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE SERVICESApproved Dec 31, 2019
  3. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation$47,586,016
    HARDWARE/SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE FOR CAD SYSTEM (REFERENCE ORIGINAL PO # 13270)Approved Oct 3, 2013
  4. Motorola Solutions Inc$40,000,000
    OEMC Camera Infrastructure ProgramApproved Jul 17, 2024
  5. Motorola Solutions Inc$30,000,000
    OEMC Camera Infrastructure ProgramApproved Dec 18, 2025

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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Office of Emergency Management and Communications FAQ

How many people work for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications?
The City of Chicago's payroll extract lists 869 employees in the Office of Emergency Management and Communications — 682 paid an annual salary and 187 paid an hourly rate. The city republishes the extract periodically, so the figure moves as people are hired and leave.
What does the Office of Emergency Management and Communications pay?
Median pay for salaried employees in the Office of Emergency Management and Communications is $86,772 a year, and the average is $90,549. Hourly employees are reported separately, at a median rate of $25.54 an hour. These are base pay figures — they do not include overtime, benefits, or pension costs.
What jobs does the Office of Emergency Management and Communications employ?
The most common job titles in the Office of Emergency Management and Communications are Police Communications Operator II, Traffic Control Aide-Hourly, Police Communications Operator I, Traffic Control Aide, Fire Communications Operator I. The full list of titles in the department, with headcount for each, is ranked on this page.
How much has the Office of Emergency Management and Communications awarded in contracts?
The city's contracts dataset records 611 contract actions naming the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, totaling $1,038,666,215 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.