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Median Salaries of Library and Museum Professionals, by Institution Type, 2016-17

Almanac 2017
August 13, 2017

Among doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate institutions, the head of a campus museum had the greatest median salary in 2016-17, and a library cataloger (Level I) had the lowest.

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Among doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate institutions, the head of a campus museum had the greatest median salary in 2016-17, and a library cataloger (Level I) had the lowest.


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Librarians

SpecialtyDoctoralMaster’sBaccalaureateAssociateSpecial/other
Access services $60,141 $47,480 $43,603 $55,262 $56,375
Cataloger (Level I) $50,342 $41,563 $41,369 $50,000 $42,718
Cataloger/metadata (Level II) $62,490 $55,068 $54,230 $49,876 $52,294
Data and geographical information $61,561 $71,071 $63,925 - -
Distance education $60,853 $52,755 $56,371 $61,903 $48,750
Electronic resources/serials $61,970 $53,030 $55,554 $76,957 $37,908
Emerging technology $59,223 $58,396 $60,621 $84,246 $63,761
Government documents/publications $62,000 $57,043 $55,485 $53,075 -
Head of access services $73,250 $54,914 $68,055 $60,148 $65,266
Head of acquisitions $70,179 $60,732 $49,236 $52,218 $51,387
Head of branch library $82,650 $60,694 $76,229 $84,872 $49,375
Head of cataloging $71,567 $60,833 $64,525 $57,591 $52,000
Head of collection development $80,833 $69,180 $63,862 $58,263 $63,985
Head of public services $76,805 $61,333 $59,771 $62,583 $53,690
Head of reference and instruction (Reference Level II) $67,512 $61,498 $59,530 $68,916 $59,570
Head of special collections and archives $77,011 $57,510 $65,799 $52,981 $51,000
Head of technical services $79,682 $62,873 $57,643 $57,114 $56,328
Media $67,987 $56,000 $49,753 $69,332 -
Reference and instruction (Reference Level I) $58,227 $52,000 $52,562 $60,300 $47,840
Special collections and archives $61,305 $51,000 $56,838 $60,919 $63,491
Systems/digital resources $74,406 $56,784 $57,908 $56,794 $53,100
User experience/assessment $67,957 $52,576 $63,000 - $42,677

Museum professionals

PositionDoctoralMaster’sBaccalaureateAssociateSpecial/other
Archive/museum/gallery curator $56,000 $51,870 $59,562 $52,948 $82,897
Head, campus museum $126,232 $74,218 $88,813 $73,440 $64,891

Note: Data for 193,544 higher-education professionals in 355 positions were collected from 1,011 colleges and universities for salaries current as of December 1, 2016. Because 12 systems reported data in aggregate for their campuses, salaries were reported from a total of 1,108 institutions, with public and private institutions nearly equally represented. Data were gathered in late 2016 and early 2017. A hyphen indicates insufficient or no data.

Source: Bichsel, Jacqueline, and McChesney, Jasper. “Professionals in Higher Education Salary Report: Key Findings, Trends, and Comprehensive Tables for the 2016-17 Academic Year.” College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), April 2017. Research report. Available from www.cupahr.org/surveys/phe.aspx.

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A version of this article appeared in the August 18, 2017, issue.
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