City of Chicago / Office of Budget & Management / Administrative Manager
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1 employees hold this title in Office of Budget & Management. Median total compensation for the role is $89,112, below the department median of $121,668.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, the median wage for Administrative Services Managers — about 8,600 people — is $108,940. Office of Budget & Management pays a median base salary of $89,112 for this role, 18% below that figure — about the 34th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Administrative 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 Office of Budget & Management’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Administrative Services Managers — about 263,960 people — is $114,130. Office of Budget & Management’s median base salary is 22% below that national figure, about the 27th 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 Office of Budget & Management is $89,112, 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
Administrative Manager is held in 5 City of Chicago departments. In Office of Budget & Management, the median of $89,112 ranks #5 of 5.
Median total compensation for the Administrative Manager role in other City of Chicagodepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In City of Chicago, the median of $97,836 ranks #2 of 5. See Administrative Manager across all of City of Chicago →
Median total compensation for comparable Administrative Managerroles 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
Page 1
Administrative Manager/Office of Budget & Management
Source-specific fields
Aja Hughes is a Administrative Manager at Office of Budget & Management. They work full-time. 2026 total compensation came to $89,112.