This dataset is a listing of all active City of Chicago employees, complete with full names, departments, positions, employment status (part-time or full-time), frequency of hourly employee –where applicable—and annual salaries or hourly rate. Please note that "active" has a specific meaning for Human Resources purposes and will sometimes exclude employees on certain types of temporary leave. For hourly employees, the City is providing the hourly rate and frequency of hourly employees (40, 35, 20 and 10) to allow dataset users to estimate annual wages for hourly employees. Please note that annual wages will vary by employee, depending on number of hours worked and seasonal status. For information on the positions and related salaries detailed in the annual budgets, see https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/obm.html

Data Disclosure Exemptions: Information disclosed in this dataset is subject to FOIA Exemption Act, 5 ILCS 140/7 (Link:https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/000501400K7.htm)

Current Employee Names, Salaries, and Position Titles records where Full or Part-Time is F.

Context

This dataset contains the name, job title, department, and salary of every employee that was on the City of Chicago payroll at the time of capture in mid-2017. It provides a transparent lens into who gets paid how much and for what.

Content

This dataset provides columns for employee name, the city department they work for, their job title, and various fields describing their compensation. Most employee salaries are covered by the Annual Salary field, but some employees paid hourly are covered by a combination of Typical Hours and Hourly Rate fields.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is published as-is by the City of Chicago (here).

Inspiration

• How many people do the various city agencies employ, and how much does each department spend on salary in total?
• What are the most numerous job titles in civic government employment?
• How do Chicago employee salaries compare against salaries of city employees in New York City? Is the difference more or less than the difference in cost of living between the two cities?

Number of employees in each department or sister agency who owe funds to the City. For each department, the dataset provides the following as of the date noted: total number of individuals employed by the department or agency, number of individuals that owe funds to the City in the department; and the total amount of debt owed by those employees. Data Owner: Revenue. Time Period: mid-October 2011 to present. Frequency: Data is updated weekly.

This dataset is a listing of all current City of Chicago employees, complete with full names, departments, positions, and annual salaries. For hourly employees the annual salary is estimated. Data Owner: Human Resources. Frequency: Data is updated quarterly. Last Updated: September, 2011. For information on the positions and related salaries detailed in the budget as of January 1, 2011, visit the "Budget - Positions and Salaries in 2011 Appropriation Ordinance" dataset: http://j.mp/mC2VLO

Note, 7/10/2025: Please see this article for information on a change to the EMPLOYEE DATASET ID column and this article for information on a data correction. Welcome to the official source for Employee Payroll Costing data for the City of Chicago. This dataset offers a clean, comprehensive view of the City's payroll information by employee. About the Dataset: This has been extracted from the City of Chicago's Financial Management and Purchasing System (FMPS). FMPS is the system used to process all financial transactions made by the City of Chicago, ensuring accuracy and transparency in fiscal operations. This dataset includes useful details like employee name, pay element, pay period, fund, appropriation, department, and job title. Data Disclaimer: The following data disclaimer governs your use of the dataset extracted from the Payroll Costing module of the City of Chicago's Financial Management and Purchasing System (FMPS) or (FMPS Payroll Costing). Point-in-Time Extract: The dataset provided herein, represents a point-in-time extract from the FMPS Payroll Costing module and may not reflect real-time or up-to-date data. Financial Statement Disclaimer – Timeframe and Limitations: This dataset is provided without audit. It is essential to note that this dataset is not a component of the City's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR). As such, it remains preliminary and is subject to the end-of-year reconciliation process inherent to the City's annual financial procedures outlined in the ACFR. Note on Pay Elements: All pay elements available in the FMPS Payroll Costing module have been included in this dataset. Previously published datasets, such as "Employee Overtime and Supplemental Earnings," contained only a subset of these pay elements. Payroll Period: The dataset's timeframe is organized into 24 payroll periods. It is important to understand that these periods may or may not directly correspond to specific earnings periods. Aggregating Data: The CIty of Chicago often has employees with the same name (including middle initials). It is vital to use the unique employee identifier code (EMPLOYEE DATASET ID) when aggregating at the employee level to avoid duplication. Data Subject to Change: This dataset is subject to updates and modifications due to the course of business, including activities such as canceling, adjusting, and reissuing checks. Data Disclosure Exemptions: Information disclosed in this dataset is subject to FOIA Exemption Act, 5 ILCS 140/7 (Link:https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/000501400K7.htm)

Context

There aren't many datasets that openly share information that is included in this dataset. Thus, it is very crucial to take advantage of the fact that this data exists for public use.

Content

This dataset includes the names, salaries, and position titles of numerous employees from Chicago, Illinois, America.

Acknowledgements

This data was found at https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Current-Employee-Names-Salaries-and-Position-Title/xzkq-xp2w.

This dataset is a listing of all active City of Chicago employees, complete with full names, departments, positions, employment status (part-time or full-time), frequency of hourly employee –where applicable—and annual salaries or hourly rate. Please note that "active" has a specific meaning for Human Resources purposes and will sometimes exclude employees on certain types of temporary leave. For hourly employees, the City is providing the hourly rate and frequency of hourly employees (40, 35, 20 and 10) to allow dataset users to estimate annual wages for hourly employees. Please note that annual wages will vary by employee, depending on number of hours worked and seasonal status. For information on the positions and related salaries detailed in the annual budgets, see https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/obm.html

Content

This dataset is a listing of all current City of Chicago employees, complete with full names, departments, positions, employment status (part-time or full-time), frequency of hourly employee –where applicable—and annual salaries or hourly rate. For hourly employees, the City is providing the hourly rate and frequency of hourly employees (40, 35, 20 and 10) to allow dataset users to estimate annual wages for hourly employees. Please note that annual wages will vary by employee, depending on number of hours worked and seasonal status. For information on the positions and related salaries detailed in the annual budgets, see https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/obm.html

Context

This is a dataset hosted by the City of Chicago. The city has an open data platform found here and they update their information according the amount of data that is brought in. Explore the City of Chicago using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the City of Chicago organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated annually.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using Socrata's API and Kaggle's API. Socrata has assisted countless organizations with hosting their open data and has been an integral part of the process of bringing more data to the public.

Cover photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash
Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique Unsplash License.

Content

More details about each file are in the individual file descriptions.

Context

This is a dataset hosted by the City of Chicago. The city has an open data platform found here and they update their information according the amount of data that is brought in. Explore the City of Chicago using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the City of Chicago organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using Socrata's API and Kaggle's API. Socrata has assisted countless organizations with hosting their open data and has been an integral part of the process of bringing more data to the public.

Cover photo by Jonathan Brinkhorst on Unsplash
Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique Unsplash License.

This dataset is distributed under the following licenses: Public Domain

This dataset includes recommended positions and salaries for 2023 by title (without names) and salary. The dataset is excerpted from the 2023 Budget Recommendations, which is the line-item budget proposed by the Mayor to the City Council for approval. Disclaimer: the “Total Budgeted Unit” column displays either A) the number of employees AND vacancies associated with a given position, or B) the number of budgeted units (ie. hours/months) for that position. “Position Control” determines whether Total Budgeted Units column will count employees and vacancies or hours/months. If a Position Control is 1, then employees and vacancies are displayed; if a Position Control is 0, then the total number of hours/months recorded is displayed. This dataset follows the format of the equivalent datasets from past years except that Division Code, Section Code, Subsection Code, and Position Control have changed from Number to Text (not all in the same year) in order to accommodate non-numeric values. For more information about the budget process, visit the Budget Documents page: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/budget.html.

This dataset is a listing of all active City of Chicago employees customer_name = Name of employee job_title = Title of employee at the time when the data were updated department = Department where employee worked. Full_or_part_time = Whether the employee was employed full- (F) or part-time (P). salary_or_hourly = Defines whether an employee is paid on an hourly basis or salary basis. Hourly employees are further defined by the number of hours they work in a week typical_hour = Describes the typical amount of work for hourly employees. This data does not apply to salary employees. 40 - Employee paid on an hourly basis; works an 8 hour day; can be either full-time permanent (FT/P) or full-time temporary (FT-T) which is a seasonal employee; 35 - Employee paid on an hourly basis; works a 7 hour day; can be either full-time permanent (FT/P) or full-time temporary (FT-T) which is a seasonal employee; 20 - Employee paid on a part-time, hourly basis; typically works a 4 hour day, 5 days a week; 10 - Employee paid on a part-time, hourly basis; works 10 hours or less in a week. salary = Salary rates

Source : https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Current-Employee-Names-Salaries-and-Position-Title/xzkq-xp2w

This dataset includes recommended positions and salaries for 2026 by title (without names) and salary. The dataset is excerpted from the 2026 Budget Recommendations, which is the line-item budget proposed by the Mayor to the City Council for approval. Disclaimer: the “Total Budgeted Unit” column displays either A) the number of employees AND vacancies associated with a given position, or B) the number of budgeted units (ie. hours/months) for that position. “Position Control” determines whether Total Budgeted Units column will count employees and vacancies or hours/months. If a Position Control is 1, then employees and vacancies are displayed; if a Position Control is 0, then the total number of hours/months recorded is displayed. This dataset follows the format of the equivalent datasets from past years except that Division Code, Section Code, Subsection Code, and Position Control have changed from Number to Text (not all in the same year) in order to accommodate non-numeric values. For more information about the budget process, visit the Budget Documents page: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/budget.html.

This information is derived from payments made to City of Chicago employees from January 1 of the previous calendar year to the present. Payments are initiated by City Departments and issued by the Department of Finance. Descriptions of each attribute follow:

• Voucher Number: This is a unique number assigned to each payment and is used for identifying that particular payment.

• Amount: This is the dollar amount of the payment made.

• Payment Date: This is the date payment was issued.

• Vendor Name: This is the name of the person or entity to which payment was made.

• Description: This is an optional field that indicates the reason payment was made.

On May 16, 2011, Mayor Emanuel enacted Executive Order 2011-1. It requires Shakman-exempt employees of Executive Departments, department heads, non-clerical employees of the Mayor's Office, and persons appointed by the Mayor to City boards, commissions, authorities or agencies on or after May 16, 2011, to sign an Ethics Pledge http://bit.ly/mSkLU1. On July 28, 2011, this requirement was enacted into law by the City Council, as Section 2-156-015 of the Governmental Ethics Ordinance (effective September 8, 2011) http://bit.ly/qYti7P. The law requires new hires or appointees to sign the pledge within 14 days of starting their employment or appointments. The pledge obligates signers to abide by a ban on lobbying activity for two years after their City service ends. The Board of Ethics maintains these signed pledges. As a convenience, we are pleased to attach a list of persons who have signed this pledge. This list is sortable by name and department.

This dataset is a listing of all current City of Chicago employees, complete with full names, departments, positions, and annual salaries. For hourly employees the annual salary is estimated. Data Owner: Human Resources. Frequency: Data is updated quarterly. For information on the positions and related salaries detailed in the annual budgets, see https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=datasets&q="Budget+Ordinance+-+Positions+and+Salaries"&sortBy=newest&tags=budget.

The Annual Appropriation Ordinance is the final City operating budget as approved by the City Council. It reflects the City’s operating budget at the beginning of the fiscal year on January 1, 2015.This dataset displays the positions and related salaries detailed in the budget as of January 1. It is extracted from the personnel portion of the Appropriation Ordinance. The dataset presents the position titles (without names) and salaries described in the budget, but does not provide a reflection of the current city workforce with full names and salaries. Disclaimer: the “Total Budgeted Units” column displays either A) the number of employees AND vacancies associated with a given position, or B) the number of budgeted units (ie. hours/months) for that position. “Position Control” determines whether Total Budgeted Units column will count employees and vacancies or hours/months. If a Position Control is 1, then employees and vacancies are displayed; if a Position Control is 0, then the total number of hours/months recorded is displayed. Owner: Budget and Management. Frequency: Data are updated annually. For information on the current city workforce, with names, positions and salaries, visit the "Current Employee Names, Salaries, and Position Titles" dataset: https://data.cityofchicago.org/id/xzkq-xp2w.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Chicago Municipal Employees Credit Union

Chicago Police district station locations and contact information.

This dataset includes recommended positions and salaries for 2025 by title (without names) and salary. The dataset is excerpted from the 2025 Budget Recommendations, which is the line-item budget proposed by the Mayor to the City Council for approval. Disclaimer: the “Total Budgeted Unit” column displays either A) the number of employees AND vacancies associated with a given position, or B) the number of budgeted units (ie. hours/months) for that position. “Position Control” determines whether Total Budgeted Units column will count employees and vacancies or hours/months. If a Position Control is 1, then employees and vacancies are displayed; if a Position Control is 0, then the total number of hours/months recorded is displayed. This dataset follows the format of the equivalent datasets from past years except that Division Code, Section Code, Subsection Code, and Position Control have changed from Number to Text (not all in the same year) in order to accommodate non-numeric values. For more information about the budget process, visit the Budget Documents page: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/obm/provdrs/budget.html.