Archives salaries in museums
What museum archives roles have advertised as pay — 9 postings that stated a figure, listed exactly as published. Not a benchmark: with counts this small, “what they paid on these occasions” is the only honest framing. 8 roles are open right now.
What do museum archives roles pay?
Median advertised salary: ≈ €62,172 / year (annualised, 9 figures, from ≈ €30,410 to ≈ €97,412)
USD postings ≈ €51,875 (n=7) · EUR postings ≈ €72,573 (n=2)
Annualised euro figures are deliberately approximate — monthly grades ×12, hourly ×2080, coarse rates for other currencies. The stated figure is always the authoritative one. Methodology
- Archives/Registration Assistant
Artist Studio · Los Angeles, USA
$28 – $30 / hour · seen 1 September 2026
- Project Archivist
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston · USA
$39 / hour · seen 25 August 2026
- Archivar (w/m/d) / Registrar (w/m/d)
Deutsches Museum, München · Germany
€4,344 – €6,018 / month, gross · seen 22 August 2026
- Archivist
Augusta Museum of History
$17 / hour · seen 17 August 2026
- Archivist, Augusta Museum of History
Georgia Association of Museums - Jobs
$17 / hour · seen 16 August 2026
- Processing Archivist and Cataloger
The University of Chicago · - Chicago, USA
$25 / hour · seen 16 August 2026
- Archivist
The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York) · USA
$75,000 / year · seen 16 August 2026
- Go to Archivist
The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York) · USA
$75,000 / year · seen 15 August 2026
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) für den Bereich „Archivierung“ – 2639
Deutsches Museum, München · Germany
€5,711 – €8,118 / month, gross · seen 15 August 2026
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Archive last added to 1 September 2026. Free to use and cite under CC BY 4.0 — “CuratorSearch Curatorial Pay Archive, curatorsearch.com/salaries” with the date, or by DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22544232. Download the whole archive.