City of Boston / City Clerk / Archivist
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in City Clerk. Median total compensation for the role is $137,360, above the department median of $95,207.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Archivists — about 230 people — is $78,220. City Clerk pays a median base salary of $128,884 for this role, 65% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Archivists across every employer in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows City Clerk’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. City Clerk’s median base salary is 100% above that national figure, above the 90th 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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at City Clerk is $137,360, 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 departments
Archivist is held in 2 City of Boston departments. In City Clerk, the median of $137,360 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Archivist role in other City of Bostondepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. See Archivist across all of City of Boston →
Median total compensation for comparable Archivistroles 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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Archivist/City Clerk
Source-specific fields
Kristen Lafferty holds the role of Archivist at City Clerk. In 2024, their total compensation was $137,360.