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
Employees31,75524,845 salaried · 6,910 hourly
Median salary$115,158salaried staff only (24,845)
Average salary$115,983highest $360,504
Median hourly rate$50.23/hrhourly staff only (6,910)

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31,755 people
NameJob titlePay
Higgins, Francis SFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Daly, Kevin MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Poole, Daniel WFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Maty, Matthew PFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Sorensen, Brandon AFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Sterrenberg, William TFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Mazmanian, Nicholas TFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Morsovillo, James DFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Joyce, Sarah MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Werner, Jason MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Kostelny, Kyle AFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Tollison, EugeneFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Kennedy, Justin MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Kehoe, Gloria LFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Bojarowicz, Daniel MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Bergquist, Christopher DFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Toscano, DenisseFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$126,672
Adams Jr, John WFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Sawyer, Shawn JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Davis, Christopher GFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Little, Conan GFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Baker, William MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Koranda, Jeffrey KFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Dalcamo, Marc ELieutenant-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Biros, Jacob AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Prado, OmarFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Mcnaughton, Edward JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Mcgee Jr, Antwine TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Hughes, Myles CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Musil, Richard CFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Cusack, Sean MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Henrichsen, Kevin PFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Helma, Marc JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Parks, Christopher JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Gomez, Luis MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Quayle, Sean TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Roman, Danielle MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Spears, Chris AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Mallee, Sean PFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Zakee, AmeerFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Mulchrone, MartinFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Slay, Jamaar DFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Arroyo, Horacio AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Zaller, Matthew JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Rakowiecki, Jeffrey EFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Nieves, Joe AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Kerzich, Joseph JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Zarlenga, NicholasFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Nowicki, Robert JFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
Ansier, Michael AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$126,384
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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.