City of Greensboro / Libraries / Librarian
Job-title file
Manage collections and information services and help patrons with research and access.
24 employees hold this title in Libraries. Median total compensation for the role is $61,294, above the department median of $46,998.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 24 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Greensboro-High Point, NC area, the median wage for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists — about 270 people — is $60,090. Libraries pays a median base salary of $61,664 for this role, 3% above that figure — about the 58th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists across every employer in the Greensboro-High Point, NC area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Libraries’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists — about 133,790 people — is $68,270. Libraries’s median base salary is 10% below that national figure, about the 36th 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 Greensboro-High Point, NC range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 22 of 24 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 Libraries is $61,294, 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 32 jurisdictions. In City of Greensboro, the median of $61,294 ranks #19 of 32. See Librarian across all of City of Greensboro →
Median total compensation for comparable Librarianroles 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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Tim Cole is a Librarian at Libraries. 2026 total compensation came to $39.