Staff photo / The clock tower in front of Collegedale City Hall is pictured in 2019. Collegedale has the highest paid city manager in Hamilton County at $144,830 per year.
A Chattanooga Times Free Press survey of compensation for managers of Hamilton County municipalities — aside from Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Ridgeside and Walden, which do not have city or town managers — reveals the municipalities’ top administrators make an average of $128,730, or $17.24
