Chicago Public Schools / City Wide Pension & Liab Ins / School Bus Aide
Job-title file
Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.
1 employees hold this title in City Wide Pension & Liab Ins. Median total compensation for the role is $47,909, above the department median of $47,909.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for School Bus Monitors — about 5,210 people — is $33,890. City Wide Pension & Liab Ins pays a median base salary of $31,132 for this role, 8% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for School Bus Monitors 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 City Wide Pension & Liab Ins’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for School Bus Monitors — about 78,420 people — is $35,100. City Wide Pension & Liab Ins’s median base salary is 11% below that national figure, about the 22nd 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 City Wide Pension & Liab Ins is $47,909, 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
School Bus Aide is held in 2 Chicago Public Schools departments. In City Wide Pension & Liab Ins, the median of $47,909 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the School Bus Aide role in other Chicago Public Schoolsdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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School Bus Aide/City Wide Pension & Liab Ins
Source-specific fields
At City Wide Pension & Liab Ins, Glynnease Parker serves as a School Bus Aide. Their 2026 pay totaled $47,909.