Joliet’s Highest Paid Employees Over $200,000: Water Department Foreman Drew $63,000 In Overtime Pay

November 17, 2025 By John Ferak, Patch Staff, Patch.com

November 17, 2025

JOLIET, IL — One of Joliet’s highest paid employees continues to be Terry Juricic, a maintenance foreman in the water department of the city’s public utilities division, a Joliet Patch public salary analysis shows. Last year, Juricic made $202,484 and his overtime compensation for 2024 was more than some of Joliet’s City Hall staff make in annual salary.

In 2024, Juricic made $63,067 in overtime wages in addition to his $134,439 in regular salary as a water department maintenance foreman. Juricic also made $1,713 for holiday worked double pay and $1,357 holiday worked triple pay and $1,909 under the category “callback pay.”

As a Joliet public utilities employee, Juricic is a union member of the AFSCME Local 440 that remains unable to negotiate a new collective bargaining contract with Mayor Terry D’Arcy and his city administration.

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