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Office of City Clerk

Headcount, pay, and awarded contracts for the Office of City Clerk, 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.

86

People on the payroll

Salaried and hourly combined

$93,072

Median salaried pay

Across 82 salaried staff

$98,399

Average salaried pay

Excludes hourly employees

$8,068,752

Total salaried payroll

Annual, before benefits

Hourly staff

4

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 Office of City Clerk

  1. Payment Services Representative16
  2. Documentation Specialist - City Clerk9
  3. Deputy Director - 227
  4. Senior Administrative Assistant5
  5. Customer Account Representative5
  6. Assistant Director-235
  7. Payment Reconciler4
  8. Student Intern - City Clerk4
  9. Project Manager3
  10. Licensing Enforcement Aide - City Clerk3

Contracts awarded

The city's contracts dataset records 188 contract actions naming the Office of City Clerk, with award amounts totaling $38,933,749. 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 "OFFICE OF CITY CLERK".

  1. Electronic Knowledge Interchange$2,753,400
    TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT DOCUMENT INTAKE SYSTEM WITH ONGOING UPDATES, MAINTENANCE, AND SUPPORT SPEC 984153Approved May 12, 2021
  2. Gem Business Forms, Inc.$2,435,591
    OFFSET PRINTED ENVELOPES, VARIOUS TYPES AND SIZESApproved Jul 17, 2015
  3. Electronic Knowledge Interchange$2,046,599
    TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT DOCUMENT INTAKE SYSTEM WITH ONGOING UPDATES, MAINTENANCE, AND SUPPORT SPEC 984153Approved Jan 26, 2024
  4. Standard Register Co$1,986,750
    ADHESIVE VEHICLE LICENSE EMBLEMSApproved Apr 11, 2007
  5. Continental Envelope Corp|Cleaned-Up$1,877,001
    OFFSET PRINTED ENVELOPES, VARIOUS TYPES AND SIZESApproved Apr 11, 2006

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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Office of City Clerk FAQ

How many people work for the Office of City Clerk?
The City of Chicago's payroll extract lists 86 employees in the Office of City Clerk — 82 paid an annual salary and 4 paid an hourly rate. The city republishes the extract periodically, so the figure moves as people are hired and leave.
What does the Office of City Clerk pay?
Median pay for salaried employees in the Office of City Clerk is $93,072 a year, and the average is $98,399. 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 Office of City Clerk employ?
The most common job titles in the Office of City Clerk are Payment Services Representative, Documentation Specialist - City Clerk, Deputy Director - 22, Senior Administrative Assistant, Customer Account Representative. The full list of titles in the department, with headcount for each, is ranked on this page.
How much has the Office of City Clerk awarded in contracts?
The city's contracts dataset records 188 contract actions naming the Office of City Clerk, totaling $38,933,749 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.