Information on the 1987 salaries and benefits of faculty, staff, and administrators employed in the Illnois public community college system is presented in this report. After introductory material provides a summary overview of the report, statewide and institutional data are given on fiscal year (FY) 1988 contractual base salaries for 9- and 12-month full-time faculty; FY88 part-time faculty salary rates per course credit hour and full-time faculty overload and summer term salary rates; FY88 schedule-based salaries for full-time faculty members with a master's degree; institutional policies related to faculty salaries and contracts; FY88 contractual base salaries for 9- and 12-month non-teaching professional staff; FY88 contractual base salaries for administrative staff; salaries paid to selected administrators; monthly classified staff salaries; low, high, and average monthly salaries for specified classified staff; comparison of monthly FY87 salaries of community college classified personnel with university civil service salaries; FY87 fringe benefits for full-time employees; and FY88 weighted mean percentage salary increases. Selected findings include the following: (1) the median FY88 contractual base salary for faculty with 9-month contracts was $32,008, while that for faculty with 12-month contracts was $28,898; (2) part-time faculty salary rates averaged $292 per course semester hour; and (3) the average salary for district chief executive officers was $70,570. (EJV)