Six Figures
- The number of people making $100,000 or more from the city of Chicago almost doubled since 2013 with 4,813 employees collecting six-figure paychecks as of last March, a review of payroll data show.
The total is a 13 percent increase from last year when 4,262 workers made at least $100,000 a year and a 92 percent increase from 2013 when 2,502 people reached that threshold, according to a Better Government Association analysis of city records.
The data represents base salary rates and does not include overtime or other forms of pay. The number of city workers taking home at least $100,000 in total compensation is even higher.
We just read another report where there are less city employees total, but more breaking the $100,000 barrier.
There are a bunch of interactive graphs and such that show police have the highest number of six-figure salaries (and highest number of employees), but a lower percentage than other segments of the city. Factor in the overtime pay (which this report doesn't), you'll see how short-handed certain departments are.
There are a bunch of interactive graphs and such that show police have the highest number of six-figure salaries (and highest number of employees), but a lower percentage than other segments of the city. Factor in the overtime pay (which this report doesn't), you'll see how short-handed certain departments are.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
35 Comments:
The Sgt. Test was rigged.....i saw the names.....what the fukk
Money isn't what it used to be. Minimum wage in chicago is $23,000 a year.
A lot of six figure salaries with a high school education.
Didn't Garrrrry add about a dozen new positions to the gold star ranks? We could afford to eliminate those pretend-positions immediately.
The real question is, "How many people are worth their six figure salary?"
I have no problem paying good money for valuable services.
Speaking of overtime,
Are the CPD officers turning down voluntary overtime for Labor Day?
"The city pointed to a number of measures that have been negotiated into labor agreements under Emanuel’s tenure that Poppe said are projected to save millions of taxpayer money. Police and fire, for example, received “the second smallest wage package in more than 30 years of formal collective bargaining,” according to the city."
I'm going to transfer to Streets & San for a pay increase!
I'd like to be Assistant Deputy UnderCommissioner of the Department of Redundancy Department.
Retired .38spl +P
Police: 86,614.29
Fire: 95,886.38
Water 85,554.64
Transportation: 85,087.72
Fleet & Facility 83,375.04
Buildings: 96,285.81
Etc, Etc
For all the P.O.'s that keep saying we make a lot of money take a look at the list!
Andy Shaw? Enough said - on to the next thread.
I'd like to see the list of those making over $100,000 that couldn't get hired by burger king.
Good timing. Now they want us to look like well paid kid killers.
Yeah but DOJ wants more bosses without filling the blue shirts and running us thin.
No bitching about property taxes by those big earners cause they probably have a spouse on the payroll too.
Want to look at another state, try Indiana, pay is about 60-65 percent of Chicago salaries and cost of eating , gasoline etc is the same, property tax may be less but it wont make up the salary.
Well when the Lt answers are given out to some you should expect to have people make more money
Just leave the cops and fireman out of this. No amount of money is enough for that job. But, when you look at the other government employees, well, that is a vastly different story. They make 30% more then there private sector counterparts and are vastly over paid. And, that does not count the pension and early retirement and the number of vacation and holidays that are double that of the private sector. patronage and political payback at its best. No college degree or skills necessary to make six figures in this town.
How much do the useless fucks that stand around and smoke in Mt greenwood park make you know the 6 overweight females that just stand around with their green vests on that work for the park district. Hey pick up some garbage or the cigarette butts you are throwing all over. Useless
$100,000 is not that big of a deal.
It is the progressive liberal way.
I hit $100,000 on July 1st. Here comes commanders pay. Thanks for not hiring anyone.
how about cta andy. rented home to a electrician. did a background and this guy earned 118k.
I'd like to see the list of those making over $100,000 that couldn't get hired by burger king.
8/10/2016 03:31:00 AM
That's easy, just walk into 3510 S. Michigan and look for anybody wearing a white shirt. If the DOJ really wanted to make changes in this department there would be a heap of gold stars putting in their papers today!! We have an entire upper echelon of supervisors that can't spell whopper with cheese!
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
(OT) again a non-clouted CPD officer cannot get a fair trial:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laquanmcdonald/ct-laquan-mcdonald-jason-van-dyke-juvenile-records-met-20160810-story.html
This is very relevant they are trying to make this offender a saint! Glorifying the criminal again you coppers being aggressive you really need immediate medical psychological counseling make appointment today! What does it take to make coppers stop acting "stupidly" Obama's word. Take it from a veteran copper long ago who learned valuable lesson when told "officer state your assets and liabilities" it was a win but in this totally topsy turning anti-police environment everything on camera done by police you must stop the go get em bosses nothing but poseurs they don't care about anything but next promotion!
Andyvshaw is now a friend of Rahm. He got his daughter clouted into a magnate school years ago. Recently his daughter got hired at the White House as a lawyer when Rahm was chief of staff. This week he wrote an article about how great lolla is. We all why he doesn't investigate any crime in city hall. He's another bought and sold ahole.
Anonymous said...
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
8/10/2016 12:47:00 PM
You're right.
SOME people really DON'T understand how good they have it.
Right?
We don't imagine that any of your "end users" are ever so unhappy
with the "service" you provide that they take up the notion of
injuring you or possibly taking your life for the sheer savage
joy of it... Right?
And if they ever do, it's all because of something YOU did/didn't do.
Right?
Sometimes shit falls off the damn shelf and kills someone
but damn it, they didn't understand how good they had it.
Right.
Good on you never having a union to speak for you.
You don't work in a politically and culturally tribal and
savage place like Chicago.
Breathlessly awaiting some meat-head to go all up their own ass
about how "Safe" Policing is compared to being a Commercial Fisherman...
Commercial Fishermen aren't looking at being sent to Prison
on an agenda driven whim or whistled into federal court and asked
to list their family assets pending litigation for violating a
King Crab's rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness etc.
What say you, Mr. Manufacturing Engineer?
Apples and Oranges comparison.
BTW... Policemen don't get social security because it was felt
they get a "Lavish" mid five figure (give or take a few grand) pension.
Now... From the top again.
Who has it good in this equation?
Lat's keep the ginned-up outrage bubbling...
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
Amen brother. I look at the Pension Database and get sick. There are people on that list who will get enough pension money in three years than they ever contributed and they still bitch and moan. Hey good for them but the system was rigged to fail and it will not end pretty due to fucking greed. Not ever position should recieve a fucking pension.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A lot of six figure salaries with a high school education.
8/10/2016 12:32:00 AM
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Yep, and I'm proud to say I've made a couple legit promotions (no merit) with that same high school education.
If you think you need college degrees to do this job, you're outta your mind!
Just leave the cops and fireman out of this. No amount of money is enough for that job. But, when you look at the other government employees, well, that is a vastly different story. They make 30% more then there private sector counterparts and are vastly over paid. And, that does not count the pension and early retirement and the number of vacation and holidays that are double that of the private sector. patronage and political payback at its best. No college degree or skills necessary to make six figures in this town.
My dad is a retired paramedic, his pension is pretty sweet. And he took a lot of bullshit on the job and off so I always tell him that is well deserved. He was one of the first paramedics to work in Chicago. But yes there are other departments that should be paid hourly and no fucking benefits.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
8/10/2016 12:47:00 PM
You made a career choice. Good for you. It's clean and it's safe. A good choice. When was the last time you were shot at while doing your job? Punched? Had a colostomy bag thrown at you? Pulled a bloated dead body out of the river lately? Held a blood-covered 3yr old girl who'd been raped? Do you drive a car that isn't maintained properly and that will NOT be accepted for air-conditioning repairs when it's a hundred degrees out? Have you missed most of the weddings, christenings, graduations, family reunions you were supposed to attend? Do you work from eleven at night til seven-thirty in the morning, then kill an hour and drive to court, so you can sit there and try to stay awake til you're called to testify after being awake for twenty hours, then go home to sleep for three hours and turn around and do it all again? I bet you regularly climb ten flights of stairs in urine-soaked stairwells with no lights and God knows what around the next turn, as you try to get to someone who called for help! Do you have to be tested regularly for tuberculosis and for AIDS, thanks to those little needle thingys you encounter so often when you search stinking, filthy, diseased invdividuals? Do rats regularly run over the tops of your shoes and do you strip your clothes off on the enclosed back porch because you spent too long in an apartment with roaches crawling on the ceiling and walls?
Well, those are some of the things I've dealt with in my career. There are a lot more, including permanent injuries that will never be right again. I've seen things I would never have imagined, I've been called on to manage other people's lives when they couldn't, right down to their razor-bladed wrists and their tin-foil hats and their booby-trapped thresholds.
Please don't ever say police don't know how good they have it. You haven't got the beginning of an inkling of a clue what we do out there so 'normal people' can live their 'normal lives'. Don't begrudge us our hard-fought battle to finally unionize and guarantee ourselves the perks of no more split shifts and compensation for our mandatory overtime that keeps us from going home to OUR 'normal life'. Don't begrudge us our 9% deduction from every paycheck for our pensions. (You know; those pension funds the City raped and pillaged and jeopardized their very existence...those pensions.) If you wanted more money, more stress, more likelihood of divorce and alcoholism and heart attacks, well, hey, you should have taken the police test, so you could have life EASY, like us.
8/10/2016 07:37:00 PM
Amen.
Couldn't have said it any better.
8/10/2016 07:37:00 PM,
You are spot on but give the man a break, He is in the manufacturing industry for 43 years. He obviously doesn't live in the city or work here. Chicago hasn't made anything but headlines like Detroit. He lives and works in the suburbs, drives a company car, and his kids go to a public school that is not infested with gang bangers. I would let him go for a ride along, but I might have to protect him from the getting his feeling hurt or his soft as silk moisturized hands scraped up when he gets knocked to the ground and his iPhone taken. He believes this code of silence thing is running rampant thru the department like the media says. He does not get to see the ignorant illogical never ending crap you do. The code of silence is the media. They like him never hold or recount endlessly what the OFFENDER does that causes their own miserable existence. Steal cigars, (Brown) Steal cars (Oneil), Slash a tire (McDonald). Never mind the assaulting of the police in any case. Each and every instance is escalated by the OFFENDER. The OFFENDER determines how the police officer re-acts. But accountability for their actions is never placed on them. It's ours the lucky few who stand between order and chaos. The poor guy can't help but be stupid. He only gets the media spin and hangs on every word. How much does Andy Shaw make? How about his leaving Tommy Dart's bloated inefficient Jail and Sheriff's Department alone. I'm sure it is not because his daughter was given an executive position with the Cook County Sheriff's Department. Then there is the media people themselves, drunk drivers wife beaters cocaine users and on and on. Im so lucky to know the truth, Mr manufacturer is lucky he does not.
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
8/10/2016 12:47:00 PM
Go take the test and stop being a pussy
To all of you guys and gals out there reaping the benefits of big money, put some aside please, I know everyone likes nice th I ngs, new big SUV's, Harleys, etc. But it will come crashing down one day I promise. Like no more VRI YOUR UNION HAS TO PUSH FOR BENEFITS. SCREW THAT BULLSHIT 1 OR 2 PERCENT RAISE. WHEN YOU HIT MEDICARE AGE WHICH IS 65, ALL THAT FREE INSURANCE ENDS, NO MORE VISION, DENTAL. YOU PAY FOR YOUR MEDICARE, YOU PAY FOR A SUPPLEMENT AND IF YOUR SPOUSE IS NOT MEDICARE AGE OR IF YOU HAVE KIDS IN COLLEGE YOU PAY BIG MONEY. YES I AM A Sergeant with a good pension but it is being crush by me paying $ 1600.00 per month for Healthcare from the city. Start saving your money kids. Retirement is not that far off.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am a manufacturing engineer by trade with 43 years in the industry and manage my department. I have several undergraduate degrees and an MBA. I am just under $100K and only have my 401K and social security to fall back on. I have no union to speak for me and work a lot of uncompensated overtime. This is the norm for my business. Some people just don't understand how good they have it.
8/10/2016 12:47:00 PM
Go take the test and stop being a pussy
8/10/2016 11:03:00 PM
He can't. He's approaching our mandatory retirement age, according to his bio.
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