And much of it goes toward paying the people who oversee everything from parks to police. Mayor Daley recently released his 2004 budget recommendations, a thick book packed with numbers that shows how the city might try to overcome preliminary projections of a $116 million deficit.
The city employs about 37,700 people, and after some recently announced reductions take effect next year, that total should be about 36,300, said Lisa Schrader, budget department spokeswoman.
The mayor, clerk, treasurer and members of the City Council will be getting a raise over the next four years. Most department heads will not see an increase, unless their positions were involved in contracts that were recently negotiated, such as the head of the fire department, officials said.
Here are the people who run Chicago, their departments, and what Mayor Daley thinks each should be paid for 2004.
$203,802
Mayor Richard Daley
$164,100
James T. Joyce, Fire Commissioner
$159,288
Phil Cline, Superintendent, Dept. of Police
$152,400
Cortez Trotter, Executive Director, Office of Emergency Management and Communications
$149,364
Thomas Walker, Commissioner of Aviation
$149,364
David E. Malone, Chief Procurement Officer, Dept. of Procurement
$147,132
Mara Georges, Corporation Counsel, Dept. of Law
$135,516
William Abolt (the name as published has been corrected in this text), Budget Director, Office of Budget and Management
$134,424
Miguel d’Escoto, Commissioner, Dept. of Transportation
$134,424
Mary A. Dempsey, Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
$134,424
Norma I. Reyes, Commissioner, Dept. of Buildings
$134,424
Richard A. Rice, Commissioner, Dept. of Water
$134,424
Al Sanchez, Commissioner, Dept. of Streets and Sanitation
$134,424
John L. Wilhelm M.D., Commissioner, Dept. of Public Health
$133,908
Alicia Mazur Berg, Commissioner, Office of Planning and Development
$133,824
James M. Reilly, Director, Dept. of Admin. Hearings
$129,708
Glenn E. Carr, Commissioner, Dept. of Personnel
$127,452
Tariq G. Malhance, City Comptroller, Dept. of Finance
$128,712
Bea Reyna-Hickey, Director, Dept. of Revenue
$125,916
John G. Markowski, Commissioner, Dept. of Housing
$125,844
Head of Dept. of Children and Youth Services (new unfilled position)
$125,844
Ray Vazquez, Commissioner, Dept. of Human Services
$125,880
James J. Laski, City Clerk
$119,916
Michael C. McCue, Commissioner, Dept. of General Services
$119,916
Michael J. Picardi, Commissioner, Dept. of Fleet Management
$116,652
Caroline O. Shoenberger, Commissioner, Dept. of Consumer Services
$113,628
Lois Weisberg, Commissioner, Dept. of Cultural Affairs
$110,652
N. Marcia Jimenez, Dept. of the Environment
$110,652
David Hanson, Commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities
$110,652
Joyce Gallagher, Commissioner, Dept. of Aging
$108,216
James Law, Executive Director, Mayor’s Office of Special Events
$107,304
Edward J. Kus, Commissioner, Dept. of Zoning:
$107,304
Alexander Vroustouris, Inspector General
$102,780
Pablo de Leon, Director, Dept. of Graphics and Reproduction Center
$98,832
Dorothy J. Eng, Executive Director, Board of Ethics
$87,756
Nikki Proutsos, Executive Director, Commission of Animal Care and Control
$59,640
Clarence Wood, Chairman, Commission on Human Relations
CEO salaries
Using 2002 information, here are the top 10 CEO salary packages in the Chicago area:
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Name Company Salary
Miles D. White Abbott Laboratories $37.1 million
Timothy R. Schwertfeger Nuveen Investments Inc. 20.3 million
Douglas Crocker Equity Residential 18.5 million
John W. Madigan Tribune Co. 17.7 million
C. Steven McMillan Sara Lee Corp 17.3 million
Edward M. Liddy Allstate Corp. 15.7 million
James Dimon Banc One Corp. 15.1 million
Jack M. Greenberg McDonald’s Corp. 13.3 million
Christopher B. Galvin Motorola Inc. 11.9 million
Samuel Zell * Equity Office Properties Trust 11.6 million
* CEO for part of 2002.
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Note: The total compensation for 2002 includes salary, bonus, other cash compensation, stock grants and the estimated value of stock options.
Source: The Chicago Tribune publishes the salary rankings of the chief executive who ran the 100 largest publicly held companies by market capitalization in Illinois and northwest Indiana.
Top dogs
Money’s no problem for these guys. This is just what we know about some local salaries. Some of these people also can count on hefty bonuses, speaking fees and other jobs to boost their annual intake.
David Schwimmer, Actor: $25 million in 2002 for playing Ross on “Friends”
Henry Bienen, President of Northwestern University: $387,000 in 1999
Hugo Sonnenschein, Former chancellor of the University of Chicago: $412,000 in 2000 (the school wouldn’t release figures for his successor)
James McNulty, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: $1 million in 2002
Bernard Dan, CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade: $891,121 in 2002
William Brodsky, CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange: $1.25 million
City Council
City aldermen will get a pay increase each year for the next four years.
2003: $88,500
2004: $91,600
2005: $94,805
2006: $98,125
Other city jobs
Proposed 2004 salaries for other city jobs of interest:
Mayor’s Chief of Staff: $141,456
City Council Sergeant-At-Arms: $74,970
Animal Control officer: $31,140 to $49,548
City Treasurer: $125,880
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Edited by Lara Weber (lweber@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com) %%
