The magazine found that 72 of Illinois' small-town city and village managers earn more than all 50 state governors.
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, IL
By JOE VINCE (Patch Staff)
A collection of North Shore village and city managers made a dubious list compiled by Forbes magazine recently.
And Lake Forest's city manager has landed in the No. 2 spot on it.
The magazine found in Illinois that "72 small-town city and village managers out-earn every governor of the 50 states" as part of
its 2016 "Big Dogs" of municipal government list for the state. In that group, managers from Glenview, Northbrook, Lake Forest and Evanston had the top 10 highest pensionable salaries in the state.
Here's how the rankings shake out:
- No. 1: Lawrence Hileman, Glenview village manager, $303,076 (pop. 45,417)
- No. 2: Richard Nahrstadt, Northbrook village manager, $263,392 (pop. 33,170)
- No. 5: Robert Kiely, Lake Forest city manager, $256,196 (pop. 19,375)
- No. 9: Walter Bobkiewicz, Evanston city manager, $232,671 (pop. 75,570)
The magazine also found that "[a]nother 111 local employees of water districts, airport districts, park districts, counties, forest preserves, mass transit districts, health clinics and planning districts also earn more than the 50 governors."