City of Boston / Office of Arts & Culture / Division Director
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1 employees hold this title in Office of Arts & Culture. Median total compensation for the role is $146,265, above the department median of $21,561.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Education Administrators, Postsecondary — about 6,770 people — is $131,130. Office of Arts & Culture pays a median base salary of $143,559 for this role, 9% above that figure — about the 57th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Education Administrators, Postsecondary 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 Office of Arts & Culture’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Education Administrators, Postsecondary — about 180,470 people — is $104,590. Office of Arts & Culture’s median base salary is 37% above that national figure, about the 74th 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 Office of Arts & Culture is $146,265, 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
Division Director is held in 16 City of Boston departments. In Office of Arts & Culture, the median of $146,265 ranks #5 of 16.
Median total compensation for the Division Director 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 6 jurisdictions. In City of Boston, the median of $126,190 ranks #4 of 6. See Division Director across all of City of Boston →
Median total compensation for comparable Division Directorroles 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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Division Director/Office of Arts & Culture
Source-specific fields
Karin Goodfellow works as a Division Director for Office of Arts & Culture. Karin earned $146,265 in 2024.