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Department of Human Resources

Headcount, pay, and awarded contracts for the Department of Human Resources, computed live from the City of Chicago's open data. Salaried and hourly employees are reported separately, because the city records only one of the two pay fields for each person.

108

People on the payroll

Salaried and hourly combined

$100,248

Median salaried pay

Across 106 salaried staff

$109,921

Average salaried pay

Excludes hourly employees

$11,651,604

Total salaried payroll

Annual, before benefits

Hourly staff

2

Hourly employees

$17.05

Median hourly rate

$17.05

Average hourly rate

Hourly rates are not annualized here. Actual annual earnings depend on hours worked and overtime, neither of which the payroll extract publishes.

Most common job titles in the Department of Human Resources

  1. Recruiter17
  2. Recruiting Coordinator9
  3. Eeo Investigator7
  4. Onboarding Specialist6
  5. Hr Records Specialist6
  6. Testing Administrator5
  7. Deputy Commissioner4
  8. Associate Disability Officer4
  9. Sr Testing / Assessment Spec3
  10. Training & Development Analyst3

Contracts awarded

The city's contracts dataset records 17,947 contract actions naming the Department of Human Resources, with award amounts totaling $2,667,200,916. Award amounts can be negative when a contract is revised downward or funds are de-obligated, so the total is a net figure rather than a spending total. Departments are named slightly differently in the contracts and payroll datasets, so this covers contracts filed under the exact name "DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES".

  1. Inner Voice Inc.$168,465,000
    EMERGENCY SHELTER RESPONSEApproved Aug 10, 2001
  2. Board Of Education Park School$81,710,456
    FY03 HEAD STARTApproved Sep 2, 2003
  3. Board Of Education Of The City Of Chicago$81,710,456
    FY 03 HEAD STARTApproved Apr 15, 2004
  4. Catholic Archdiocese Chicago$35,632,208
    FY03 HEAD START COLLABORATIONApproved Dec 5, 2002
  5. Y M C A Of Metro Chicago$27,114,460
    FY03 HEAD START COLLABORATIONApproved Jan 9, 2003

Sources

Pay figures are base pay only — no overtime, benefits, or pension costs. Medians are the middle record of the ordered list, computed over employees with that pay field filled in.

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Department of Human Resources FAQ

How many people work for the Department of Human Resources?
The City of Chicago's payroll extract lists 108 employees in the Department of Human Resources — 106 paid an annual salary and 2 paid an hourly rate. The city republishes the extract periodically, so the figure moves as people are hired and leave.
What does the Department of Human Resources pay?
Median pay for salaried employees in the Department of Human Resources is $100,248 a year, and the average is $109,921. Hourly employees are reported separately, at a median rate of $17.05 an hour. These are base pay figures — they do not include overtime, benefits, or pension costs.
What jobs does the Department of Human Resources employ?
The most common job titles in the Department of Human Resources are Recruiter, Recruiting Coordinator, Eeo Investigator, Onboarding Specialist, Hr Records Specialist. The full list of titles in the department, with headcount for each, is ranked on this page.
How much has the Department of Human Resources awarded in contracts?
The city's contracts dataset records 17,947 contract actions naming the Department of Human Resources, totaling $2,667,200,916 in award amounts. That total is a net figure: revisions and de-obligations are recorded as negative award amounts, so it is not the same as total spending.