City of Chicago / Department of Administrative Hearing / Senior Hearing Officer
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in Department of Administrative Hearing. Median total compensation for the role is $106,272, above the department median of $93,072.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers — about 350 people — is $121,720. Department of Administrative Hearing pays a median base salary of $106,272 for this role, 13% below that figure — about the 33rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 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 Department of Administrative Hearing’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers — about 16,370 people — is $117,860. Department of Administrative Hearing’s median base salary is 10% below that national figure, about the 42nd 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 Department of Administrative Hearing is $106,272, 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.
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Senior Hearing Officer/Department of Administrative Hearing
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Shawn Wickery is a Senior Hearing Officer at Department of Administrative Hearing. They work full-time. 2026 total compensation came to $106,272.