City employee salaries

Name, job title, department, and pay for every City of Chicago employee. Search anyone, sort by pay, and drill into any department.

Money & PeopleCity last published Aug 28, 2026Source on the data portal
Employees matching231230 salaried · 1 hourly
Median salary$136,656salaried staff only (230)
Average salary$137,295highest $210,552
Median hourly rate$17.05/hrhourly staff only (1)

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Department Of Buildings

231 people
NameJob titlePay
Lopez, Manuel MPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Haggerty, JosephPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Hughes, LolitaPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Ryan, Kevin WPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Smith, AaronPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Payne, Carla YPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Delcarmen, BaltazarPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Brown, Gregory EPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Mc Ging, Michael JPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Brennan, Cory JPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Woodward, Paul BPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Ruiz, JesusPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Fox, VictorPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Patterson, Brian DPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Reidy, Edward JPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Prophet, MarvinPlumbing InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,656
Amick, David JBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,872
Nayman, David TSuprvng Building/Contruct InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,872
Cherry, Alesia RBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,872
Alvarez, TibaldoBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$136,872
Davis, PamelaPlumbing Inspector I/CDepartment Of Buildings$139,256
Maloney, Patrick GAsst Chief Engineer Of SewersDepartment Of Buildings$140,496
Griffin, Eamon GIron InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$140,795
Jenkins, Marlon DIron InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$140,795
Griffin, GeraldIron InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$140,795
Seymore, ShirleySupvsr Of Personnel AdministrationDepartment Of Buildings$140,796
Mccarthy, Morgan JStructural EngineerDepartment Of Buildings$141,564
Leung, Man HStructural EngineerDepartment Of Buildings$141,564
Hussain, Syed RProject Manager - BuildingsDepartment Of Buildings$141,564
Powell, HopeBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Buehring, Kenneth VBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Martinez, Mario SBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Mulyk, Mark ABuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Goolsby, Jules EBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Chukwu, Basil OBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Bialoruski, Keith SBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Brady, Kevin LBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Vasquez, JesusBuilding/Construction InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$143,352
Campos, JorgeElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Merriweather, Derrica CElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Sonne, Lawrence MElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Satterfield, James LElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Chirikos, Nicholas TElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Mc Dermott, Patrick SElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Dyess, GordonElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Sowder, VictorElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Sarabia, ReneElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Moore, Chantel AElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Castaneda, DanielElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
Dragovic, DuloElectrical InspectorDepartment Of Buildings$144,487
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Source: Employee Salaries, City of Chicago open data · city last published Aug 28, 2026.

Pay figures are base pay as published. Salaried and hourly staff are reported in separate columns by the city, so medians and averages above are computed over each group separately — never blended. Overtime and other earnings are not in this dataset. Open in the raw explorer.