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What archivists make
Median
$82,000
Lower end
$42,000
Upper end
$113,000
Job Bank's national median is $39.24 an hour, about $82,000 a year full time, which is high for the arts and heritage side of the job market. The reason is that most archivist jobs are inside governments, universities and hospitals, on public pay scales with pensions.