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 matching102102 salaried · 0 hourly
Median salary$97,488salaried staff only (102)
Average salary$105,984highest $213,840
Median hourly ratehourly staff only (0)

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Department Of Housing

102 people
NameJob titlePay
Collins, TamraManaging Deputy CommissionerDepartment Of Housing$200,532
Castaneda, LissetteCommissioner Of HousingDepartment Of Housing$213,840
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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.