City of Chicago / Chicago Department of Public Health / Public Health Administrator II
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
26 employees hold this title in Chicago Department of Public Health. Median total compensation for the role is $85,200, below the department median of $102,588.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 26 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
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Medical and Health Services Managers — about 16,680 people — is $123,090. Chicago Department of Public Health pays a median base salary of $102,588 for this role, 17% below that figure — about the 30th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Medical and Health Services Managers 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 Chicago Department of Public Health’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Medical and Health Services Managers — about 597,080 people — is $123,860. Chicago Department of Public Health’s median base salary is 17% below that national figure, about the 32nd 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 Chicago Department of Public Health is $102,588, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In City of Chicago, the median of $102,588 ranks #2 of 4. See Public Health Administrator across all of City of Chicago →
Median total compensation for comparable Public Health Administratorroles 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
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Public Health Administrator II/Chicago Department of Public Health
Source-specific fields
Tammi West holds the role of Public Health Administrator II at Chicago Department of Public Health. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $93,504.