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Curatorial salaries in museums

What museum curatorial roles have advertised as pay — 70 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. 53 roles are open right now.

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What do museum curatorial roles pay?

Median advertised salary: ≈ €64,378 / year (annualised, 70 figures, from ≈ €29,929 to ≈ €132,300)

EUR postings ≈ €69,144 (n=29) · USD postings ≈ €55,060 (n=29) · CAD postings ≈ €63,200 (n=7) · GBP postings ≈ €37,440 (n=5)

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

Also by field and country

53 live Curatorial roles right now.

Members saw today's roles today — not in Friday's sample. Every field, every region, the day it's posted.

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Samman, N. (2026). Curatorial salaries in museums. CuratorSearch. https://curatorsearch.com/salaries/curatorial (accessed 23 October 2026). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22544232.

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