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 29, 2026Source on the data portal
Employees matching2,012312 salaried · 1,700 hourly
Median salary$113,592salaried staff only (312)
Average salary$110,574highest $234,828
Median hourly rate$49.39/hrhourly staff only (1,700)

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Department Of Streets And Sanitation

2,012 people
NameJob titlePay
Arrington, JanetSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$49.39/hr
Rolon, Frankie JTree TrimmerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$49.97/hr
Pup, AlexEquipment Dispatcher I/CDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$52.87/hr
Hutton, Termaine JPool Motor Truck DriverDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$50.23/hr
Alvarez Jr, RaulSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$49.39/hr
Daly, Joseph SSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$44.45/hr
Cooley, Vickie RSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$49.39/hr
Janeteas, NicholasSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$37.04/hr
Salone, Terrance TSanitation LaborerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$49.39/hr
Mayberry, MichaelMotor Truck DriverDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$50.23/hr
Perry, Thomas GHoisting EngineerDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$68.80/hr
Ventura, XavierGeneral Laborer - DssDepartment Of Streets And Sanitation$27.16/hr
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Source: Employee Salaries, City of Chicago open data · city last published Aug 29, 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.