City of Baltimore / Legislative Reference / Archives Technician
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
1 employees hold this title in Legislative Reference. Median total compensation for the role is $53,870, below the department median of $80,895.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Archivists — about 230 people — is $76,440. Legislative Reference pays a median base salary of $45,220 for this role, 41% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Archivists across every employer in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Legislative Reference’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Archivists — about 7,970 people — is $64,550. Legislative Reference’s median base salary is 30% below that national figure, about the 17th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Legislative Reference is $45,220, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. See Archives Technician across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Archives Technicianroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Archives Technician/Legislative Reference
Source-specific fields
Laura Swangin works as a Archives Technician for Legislative Reference. They have served since 2024 (about a year). Laura earned $53,870 in 2025.