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 Sep 4, 2026Source on the data portal
Employees31,76124,849 salaried · 6,912 hourly
Median salary$115,158salaried staff only (24,849)
Average salary$116,091highest $406,536
Median hourly rate$50.23/hrhourly staff only (6,912)

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31,761 people
NameJob titlePay
Sherwood, Christopher CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Phoxay, Ackhadej NFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Mcdonald, Christian SFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Walsh, Daniel RFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Morrissette Jr, Kevin CFire Marshal-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Maxie, Randall CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Letz, Garnett PFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Maloy Jr, David PFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Corvo, Keith TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Sosnowski, Theodore EFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Pruger, Louis RFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Carey, Patrick WFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Rossi, JosephFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Palacios, RicardoFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Solis Davila, DanielFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Oshita, Aaron YFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Gildein Jr, JosephFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Ternes Jr, Richard JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Williams, John JFire Marshal-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Cortes, UlyssesFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Rosales, William MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Johnson, Eric EFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Santiago Jr, BennyFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Nowacki Jr, Michael AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Detlaff, Nicholas TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Quinones, Michael AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Dillon, Kyle TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Baacke, Ryan CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Kadich, Jonathan BFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Williams, Kenneth DFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Lingel, Travis CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Flowers, Ramone BFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Talavera, DanielFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Chambers, LionelFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Mc Afee III, Felix WFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Moreno, Marcus SFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Cabrera, EricFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Mcmanus, Kevin BFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Hill, Jeremy AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Mendoza, RubenFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Santiago, EdwardFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Boyer, JoshuaFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Rodriguez, Cesar LFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Meier, Ryan AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Valdivia, HeribertoFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Solis, RoldanFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Goff, Josh JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Oswald Jr, Kurt TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Coglianese, Anthony LFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
Salvo, Joseph SFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$122,136
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Source: Employee Salaries, City of Chicago open data · city last published Sep 4, 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.