City of Chicago / City Council / Legislative Aide
Job-title file
Legislative Aide
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
69 employees hold this title in City Council. Median total compensation for the role is $82,008, above the department median of $67,992.
- Employees
- 69
- Total payroll
- $5.9M
- Role median
- $82,008
- Agency median
- $67,992
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 69 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
Legislative Aide pay vs. the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Legal Support Workers, All Other — about 2,120 people — is $63,240. City Council pays a median base salary of $82,008 for this role, 30% above that figure — about the 73rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City Council sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Support Workers, All Other 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 Council’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Legal Support Workers, All Other — about 46,760 people — is $72,110. City Council’s median base salary is 14% above that national figure, about the 57th 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 Council is $82,008, 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
Legislative Aide beyond City of Chicago
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In City of Chicago, the median of $82,008 ranks #1 of 6. See Legislative Aide across all of City of Chicago →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Legislative Aideroles 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.
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