City of Los Angeles / Senior Librarian
Role across City of Los Angeles
Senior Librarian
Manage collections and information services and help patrons with research and access.
94 people hold the Senior Librarian role across 1 department in City of Los Angeles, with a median total compensation of $150,829. Among 2 jurisdictions where this role is reported, City of Los Angeles ranks #1 by median pay.
- Employees
- 94
- Median pay
- $150,829
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #1 of 2
Compared with the local labor market
Senior Librarian pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists — about 3,270 people — is $97,510. City of Los Angeles pays a median base salary of $131,019 for this role, 34% above that figure — about the 89th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City of Los Angeles sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows City of Los Angeles’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. City of Los Angeles’s median base salary is 92% 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at City of Los Angeles is $150,829, 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
Senior Librarian pay in other jurisdictions
Where Senior Librarians are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Senior Librarianroles 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.