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What archivists make
Typical
$82,000
Starting or part time
$42,000
Senior or federal
$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.