Question 1

What do museum conservation roles pay?

Accepted Answer

Of the museum conservation roles CuratorSearch has indexed, 7 stated their pay. Annualised for comparison, those run from about €49,389 to €78,260 a year, with a median of about €61,920 — 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.

Question 2

Where do these figures come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Conservation salaries in museums

What do museum conservation roles pay?

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