Where do these figures come from?

From the job postings themselves — an explicit amount, or a public-sector pay grade (German TV-L/TVöD) that maps to a published salary table. Nothing is estimated, modelled or inferred from job titles. Once a salary is observed it is archived permanently, so the record survives the listing closing. Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

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Collections salaries in museums

Q: What do museum collections roles pay?

Of the museum collections roles CuratorSearch has indexed, 17 stated their pay. Annualised for comparison, those run from about €32,000 to €97,412 a year, with a median of about €53,664 — a midpoint across junior and senior roles and different employers, not a rate for the job. Every figure is listed exactly as the employer advertised it, never converted or estimated. Most postings in the sector state no salary at all.

What museum collections roles have advertised as pay — 17 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. 28 roles are open right now.

What do museum collections roles pay?

Median advertised salary: ≈ €53,664 / year (annualised, 17 figures, from ≈ €32,000 to ≈ €97,412)

USD postings ≈ €51,600 (n=13) · EUR postings ≈ €69,238 (n=4)

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

Museologe/in (m/w/d) in der Sammlung Alltagskultur 1
Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin · Germany
€4,813 – €6,633 / month, gross · seen 4 September 2026
Leitung der Sammlung und Denkmalpflege
Stiftung Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin · Germany
€5,711 – €8,118 / month, gross · seen 4 September 2026
Exhibitions Registrar and Preparator
The Parrish Art Museum · Water Mill, USA
$36 – $40 / hour · seen 4 September 2026
Part Time Registrar
The Journal Gallery · New York, USA
$25 – $35 / hour · seen 1 September 2026
Depotverwalter (m/w/d)
Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H., Hall i. Tirol (Österreich) · Germany
€32,000 / year · seen 27 August 2026
Leitung Sammlungsmanagement der TLM (m/w/d)
Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H., Innsbruck (Österreich) · Germany
€69,800 / year · seen 26 August 2026
Collection Manager, Library Services Center
The New York Public Library · Queens, USA
$80,000 – $85,000 / year · seen 26 August 2026
Fine Art Gallery Cataloguer
Rogallery · Long Island City, USA
$50,000 – $70,000 / year · seen 25 August 2026
Associate Registrar
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum · Long Island City, USA
$75,000 – $85,000 / year · seen 21 August 2026
Associate Registrar for Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, USA
$56,292 / year · seen 21 August 2026
Assistant to the Registrar
P·P·O·W · New York, USA
$40,000 – $45,000 / year · seen 19 August 2026
Assistant Collections Manager - Insects
The Field Museum · - Chicago, USA
$49,000 – $52,000 / year · seen 16 August 2026
Head Registrar
Columbia Museum of Art · Columbia, USA
$63,000 – $73,000 / year · seen 15 August 2026
Assistant Registrar
Perrotin Los Angeles
$27 – $30 / hour · seen 15 August 2026
Associate Registrar, Exhibitions
SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · San Francisco, USA
$38 – $46 / hour · seen 15 August 2026
Associate Registrar for Outgoing Loans
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, USA
$56,292 / year · seen 15 August 2026
Registrar
Susan Inglett Gallery · New York, USA
$45,000 – $52,000 / year · seen 15 August 2026

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Archive last added to 4 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.