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 30, 2026Source on the data portal
Employees31,75524,844 salaried · 6,911 hourly
Median salary$115,158salaried staff only (24,844)
Average salary$115,978highest $360,504
Median hourly rate$50.23/hrhourly staff only (6,911)

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31,755 people
NameJob titlePay
Thiel, Joseph MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Tapia, EdwinFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Kintz, Collin JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Mallary, Ryan WFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
O'Connell, Sean PFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Johnson, Zachary TFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Guarascio, Joseph AFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Timothy, Sean FFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Sanchez, OmarFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Kinnear, Patrick RFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Moore, Asia CFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Goecking, Michael EFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Kraatz, Kyle RFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
La Buda, Erik AFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Cintron, DanielFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Michaels, Robert FFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Buckley, Sean MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Hall, Kevin SFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Nelson, Michael JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Lopez, Paige MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
White, Cody RFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Dela Cruz, Jorell CFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Carrillo Jr, SimonFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Flynn, Conor TFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Chang, BrettonFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Luczak, Victoria BFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Ramirez, Juan FFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Cappello, Thomas VFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Garcia, Saul DFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Holly, John PFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Infante, Anthony JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Vanek, Mark JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Mercado Estrada, MichaelFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Pochinskas, Christopher WFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Hagman, Eric GFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Bianchi, Michael JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Nitti, Nicholas LFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Sheehan, Ryan PFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Vo, David DFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Stell, Sean MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Stedman, Matthew JFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Schopper, Brian AFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Wilson, Chase WFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Maroney, David PFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Rhodes, Timothy CFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Kamer, Brian MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Haas, Michael TFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Hoffman, Jake EFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Creely, John MFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
Chan, Peter SFirefighter/ParamedicChicago Fire Department$122,376
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Source: Employee Salaries, City of Chicago open data · city last published Aug 30, 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.