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
Ward, Andre LFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Olifer, George BFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Zuniga, VicenteFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Holy, Scott RFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Clark Jr, RamonFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Martinez, Israel GFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Klausing, JasonFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Polek, Craig TFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Sterbis, Adam PFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Borsch, Richard AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Salbego, Michael AFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Oleksy, Brian MFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Lecodet, VictorFirefighter-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Piccolo, Michael GLieutenant-EmtChicago Fire Department$131,472
Feliciano, IvanPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Plewa, DanielPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Pawlowski, CarlPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Jasinski, MateuszPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Martinez, Jose APolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Lee, ArthurPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Schorsch, PhillipPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Okon, EddiePolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Kusinski, JohnPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Mulligan, DaniellePolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Bastien, ThomasPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Pfeiffer, MichaelPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Romo, IvanPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Kearney, PatrickPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Flores, AdrianPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Hayden, AsahiPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Cradick, Patrick MPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Djordjevic, MilanPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Montalvo, DenisePolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Burg, KylePolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Abraham, Nancy APolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Haro, AbelPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Gatsios, VasiliosPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Sanchez, NoemyPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Knabjian, KevinPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Harte, ErinPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Zulkey, JosephPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Stewart, Chad KPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Hodgeman, DavidPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Cunningham, JosephPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Saxton, DerekPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Burzinski, JohnPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Smith, James JPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Kalenik, PeterPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Albert, DonnaPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
Torres, RicardoPolice Officer (Assigned As Detective)Chicago Police Department$131,448
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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.