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City of Greensboro / Libraries / Librarian

Job-title file

Librarian

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.

Employees
24
Total payroll
$1.4M
Role median
$61,294
Agency median
$46,998
Comparison
Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$37$74,428+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

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

Librarian pay vs. the Greensboro-High Point, NC area

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 figureabout the 58th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Libraries sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$48,830
$52,520
$60,090
$64,750
$76,400
Libraries median · $61,664

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.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$43,660
$56,310
$68,270
$84,480
$103,990
Libraries median · $61,664

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

Librarian beyond City of Greensboro

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

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Los Angeles County
$149,365 · 299
City of San Jose
$142,838 · 64
City of Seattle
$113,277 · 91
City of Boston
$112,505 · 78
City of Los Angeles
$106,657 · 477
City of Chicago
$101,664 · 384

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

Employees with this title

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Marya Ryals

Librarian/Libraries

2026 total comp
$75,135
Base pay
$75,135
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$0
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$75,135
Middle name
L

Source-specific fields

Es Id
2936
Firstname
Marya
Lastname
Ryals

Marya Ryals works as a Librarian for Libraries. Marya earned $75,135 in 2026.

Melanie Buckingham

Librarian/Libraries

2026 total comp
$73,599
Base pay
$73,599
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$0
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$73,599
Middle name
S

Source-specific fields

Es Id
2955
Firstname
Melanie
Lastname
Buckingham

Melanie Buckingham works as a Librarian for Libraries. Melanie earned $73,599 in 2026.

Arthur Erickson

Librarian/Libraries

2026 total comp
$73,383
Base pay
$73,383
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$0
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$73,383
Middle name
G

Source-specific fields

Es Id
2891
Firstname
Arthur
Lastname
Erickson

Arthur Erickson works as a Librarian for Libraries. Arthur earned $73,383 in 2026.

Brandon Bensley

Librarian/Libraries

2026 total comp
$71,204
Base pay
$71,204
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$0
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$71,204
Middle name
R

Source-specific fields

Es Id
2908
Firstname
Brandon
Lastname
Bensley

Brandon Bensley holds the role of Librarian at Libraries. In 2026, their total compensation was $71,204.