Archivist Salary

Updated: 31 May 2012

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	National Salary Data (? XAll compensation data shown are gross, national 10th to 90th percentile ranges. Pay can vary greatly by location. To view local data, take the PayScale survey. )	$0	$21K	$42K	$63K
Salary	$30,735 - $62,167
Bonus	$0.00 - $3,064
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Total Pay (? XTotal Pay combines base annual salary or hourly wage, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job. It does not include equity (stock) compensation, cash value of retirement benefits, or the value of other non-cash benefits (e.g. healthcare). )	$27,147 - $62,449
Country: United States \| Currency: USD \| Updated: 31 May 2012 \| Individuals Reporting: 148

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Job Listings for Archivist Jobs

Posted	Job Title	Company	Job Location
Jan 19	NHPRC Electronic Records Archivist	Mount Holyoke College	South Hadley, Massachusetts
	Electronic Records Archivist Profession: Education... Special Collections, the NHPRC Electronic Records Archivist supports the Director of Archives and Special... Indeed
Jan 24	Archivist	National Archives And Records Administration	Boston, Massachusetts
	You will serve as an Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Library, located at Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, under the Archivist Development Program - a... Indeed
Jan 25	Project Archivist, Menuez/Fuller Project	Stanford University	Stanford, California
	Librarian, Project Archivist is responsible for... in Archivists Toolkit • Responsible for EAD output and clean-up of Accession records in Archivists Toolkit... Indeed
Jan 25	Project Archivist, MALDEF/CRLA Records	Stanford University	Stanford, California
	archivist will arrange and describe the MALDEF and CRLA papers • Responsible for process MALDEF and CRLA collections • Describe collection using Archivists... Indeed

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Popular Industries

Salary Range


Education, College/University	$29,457 - $67,862
Museum	$26,737 - $59,593
Public Library Services	$27,935 - $64,163
Government	$31,266 - $77,034
Fundraising	$27,314 - $65,775

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Key Statistics for Archivist Salaries and Jobs

Gender

	Female 68%			Male 32%
Salary:	$33,722 - $52,043			$38,614 - $63,136

Years of Experience

Less than 1 year

1-4 years

47%

5-9 years

27%

10-19 years

16%

20 years or more

Top Degrees

Salary Range


Bachelor's Degree	$27,812 - $66,384
Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS)	$30,500 - $51,923
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History	$37,440 - $60,000
Master of Arts (MA), History	$34,750 - $74,000
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology	Not enough data

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Most Common Health Benefits

	Medical: 77%		Dental: 68%
	Vision: 52%		None: 21%

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Career Path for Archivist Jobs

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Archivist

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$27,147 - $62,449

	Administrative Assistant $21,256 - $43,272
	Library Assistant $17,020 - $39,113

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Archivist

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$27,147 - $62,449

Archivist, Curator, or Museum Technician
$22,380 - $53,510

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1. Washington, District of Columbia

2. New York, New York

Archivist Job Description

People with the job title Archivist typically fall into one of the following PayScale standard occupations.

Historians

Research, analyze, record, and interpret the past as recorded in sources, such as government and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.