name string | source string | attribution string | license string | note string | generated string | count int64 | observations list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Curatorial Pay Archive | https://curatorsearch.com/salaries | CuratorSearch — free to use and cite with attribution. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | Figures are as advertised by the employer: never converted between currencies, never inferred. 'per' is the pay period the posting itself stated. | 2026-09-06T09:13:51.761Z | 139 | [
{
"url": "https://curatorsearch.com/opportunities/assistant-conservator-for-east-asian-works-of-art-on-paper-philadelphia-museum-o-f73802c9",
"title": "Assistant Conservator for East Asian Works of Art on Paper",
"institution": "Philadelphia Museum of Art",
"category": "Conservation",
"location"... |
CuratorSearch Curatorial Pay Archive
Every salary a museum, gallery or cultural institution stated in a job advertisement indexed by CuratorSearch, recorded exactly as the employer published it and kept after the posting closed.
- Observations: 139 (snapshot of 2026-09-06; the live archive grows daily at https://curatorsearch.com/salaries)
- Institutions: 96
- Collected: 2026-08-15 to 2026-09-05
- Currencies: USD 88, EUR 36, CAD 9, GBP 6
- DOI (all versions): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22544232
- Licence: CC BY 4.0
Headline at snapshot: of the 187 museum and curatorial roles live on 6 September 2026, 24% stated a salary. Among those that did, the median advertised figure was about EUR 58,480 a year, annualised for comparison. Counts are small: this is a record of what employers advertised on particular occasions, not a benchmark.
Files
curatorial-salaries-2026-09-06.csv— one row per posting that stated paycuratorial-salaries-2026-09-06.json— the same observations with dataset metadata
Columns
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
| url | the posting's permanent page on curatorsearch.com |
| title | job title as advertised |
| institution | hiring institution |
| category | CuratorSearch field: Curatorial, Collections, Conservation, Archives, Education & Public Programmes, Production, Leadership, Intern & Fellowship, Other |
| location | city and country as advertised |
| currency | ISO 4217 code |
| min, max | the stated range (equal when a single figure was given) |
| per | YEAR, MONTH or HOUR, as stated |
| analogous | true when a German public-sector grade was cited "in Anlehnung an" (analogous to) a scale rather than binding |
| captured | when the figure was first recorded (ISO 8601) |
How it was collected
CuratorSearch gathers vacancies daily from institutions' own careers pages, never from Indeed or LinkedIn. A salary observation is recorded when a posting states an explicit amount, or a German public-sector pay grade (TV-L or TVöD, e.g. "E13 TV-L") that maps to a published pay table; the grade is decoded into the euro range from step 1 to the top step. Nothing is estimated, modelled or inferred from job titles.
Known limits: UK pay bands and US pay-transparency ranges written in prose are not yet parsed, so the archive understates disclosure in those countries. Methodology: https://curatorsearch.com/salaries#methodology
Citation
The canonical record is on Zenodo; this copy is identical to the 2026-09-06 deposit.
@dataset{samman_2026_curatorial_pay_archive,
author = {Samman, Nadim},
title = {CuratorSearch Curatorial Pay Archive (snapshot 2026-09-06)},
year = {2026},
publisher = {CuratorSearch},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22544232},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22544232}
}
Related
- Live archive and per-field, per-country pages: https://curatorsearch.com/salaries
- German edition: https://curatorsearch.com/de/gehaelter
- GitHub mirror: https://github.com/nsamman/curatorsearch-salary-archive
- Machine access: https://curatorsearch.com/openapi.json
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