Skip to main content
Filing year 2024

LEGAL AID CHICAGO

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 36-2754650·NTEE I80Z · Crime & Legal-Related·3
Total revenue
$30.6M
Total assets
$20.4M
Total expenses
$25.7M
Reported officers
57
Mission

AT LEGAL AID CHICAGO, WE WORK TOGETHER TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY CIVIL LEGAL AID TO PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS.THROUGH ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, COLLABORATION, AND LITIGATION WE EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS, PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES, CREATE OPPORTUNITIES, AND ACHIEVE JUSTICE.IN CARRYING OUT OUR MISSION, WE TREAT EVERYONE WITH COMPASSION AND RESPECT.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefits
Base salaryBonusOther compensationBenefitsExecutive compensation
Ceo/exec. Director
officer (unspecified)
$260k
$278k
Chief External Relations O
highest compensated employee
$196k
$210k
Chief Information Officer
chief information officer
$179k
$192k
Director of Litigation
highest compensated employee
$179k
$192k
Chief Strategy Officer
highest compensated employee
$178k
$191k
Chief Financial Officer
$175k
$187k
Director of Immigration & Worker's Rights
highest compensated employee
$163k
$175k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 50 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Crime & Legal-Related

Up 22%
from 2023

From $213k in 2023 to $260k in 2024.

$213k
2023
$260k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 18% in real terms$236k to $278k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

LEGAL AID CHICAGO reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$25.2M
$25.1M
2023
$30.6M
$25.7M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Crime & Legal-Related executives earn in Illinois

Comparable crime & legal-related organizations in Illinois pay their highest-earning executive a median of $93,274.

25th percentile
$57k
Median
$93,274
75th percentile
$145k
90th percentile
$227k

These are crime & legal-related sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 105 organizations across 105 filings (2021 – 2024).

See full Crime & Legal-Related pay data for Illinois
Free, forever
Build lists. Save your benchmarks.
A free Lucido account lets you build lists of nonprofits and save your search filters. No credit card.
Create free account
Already a member? Sign in
Build a benchmark

Compare any role, sector, or revenue band

Build your own benchmark from millions of reported positions.