City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish / Library Technician
Role across City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish
Library Technician
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
182 people hold the Library Technician role across 1 department in City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish, with a median total compensation of $38,171. Among 7 jurisdictions where this role is reported, City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish ranks #5 by median pay.
- Employees
- 182
- Median pay
- $38,171
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #5 of 7
Compared with the local labor market
Library Technician pay vs. the Baton Rouge, LA area
Across all employers in the Baton Rouge, LA area, the median wage for Library Technicians — about 420 people — is $36,010. City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish pays a median base salary of $43,693 for this role, 21% above that figure — about the 65th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Library Technicians across every employer in the Baton Rouge, LA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Library Technicians — about 68,690 people — is $44,580. City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish’s median base salary is 2% below that national figure, about the 47th 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 Baton Rouge, LA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 133 of 182 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish is $38,171, 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
Library Technician pay in other jurisdictions
Where Library Technicians are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Library Technicianroles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.