Chicago Public Schools / Albert G Lane Technician High School / School Counselor
Job-title file
School Counselor
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
13 employees hold this title in Albert G Lane Technician High School. Median total compensation for the role is $142,937, above the department median of $127,933.
- Employees
- 13
- Total payroll
- $1.8M
- Role median
- $142,937
- Agency median
- $127,933
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 13 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
School Counselor pay vs. the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors — about 9,790 people — is $64,730. Albert G Lane Technician High School pays a median base salary of $108,600 for this role, 68% above that figure — about the 89th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Albert G Lane Technician High School sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors across every employer in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Albert G Lane Technician High School’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors — about 353,310 people — is $64,330. Albert G Lane Technician High School’s median base salary is 69% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Albert G Lane Technician High School is $142,937, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
This role across Chicago Public Schools
School Counselor is held in 517 Chicago Public Schools departments. In Albert G Lane Technician High School, the median of $142,937 ranks #202 of 517.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the School Counselor role in other Chicago Public Schoolsdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
School Counselor beyond Chicago Public Schools
This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In Chicago Public Schools, the median of $135,773 ranks #1 of 3. See School Counselor across all of Chicago Public Schools →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable School Counselorroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
Employees with this title
Page 1
No employees match these filters.