Who Wants to Work? Shorewood's Got $110,000 For New Village Administrator

If you're out of work or looking for a job, the village of Shorewood has one paying six figures for somebody with at least five years of experience and a bachelor's degree.

The firm the village retained to find a new village administrator — for a price not to exceed $22,000 — has posted a help wanted ad on the website govtjobs.com.

The posting gives a brief background of Shorewood ("The DuPage River runs through the community, which provides a picturesque location in wide open spaces offering a superior quality of life in which to live, work, and raise a family") before getting into the good stuff: a $110,000 starting salary with "excellent benefits."

To rake in this kind of money, the successful candidate is "expected to have a strong background in economic development, labor relations/negotiation, infrastructure development and financial management."

Not to mention a bachelor's degree and five years of experience. And the new village administrator is going to have to live in Shorewood.

The village is looking to replace former administrator Kurt Carroll, who left town in May to go work for New Lenox, where he is reportedly pulling down $153,000 a year.