Compared with the local labor market
Librarian 3 pay vs. the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area
Across all employers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, the median wage for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists — about 1,390 people — is $80,800. Library pays a median base salary of $66,543 for this role, 18% below that figure — about the 28th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Library sits in the local pay range
$62,280
$64,950
$80,800
$97,670
$99,990
The bar is the range of annual wages for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists across every employer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Library’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. Library’s median base salary is 3% below that national figure, about the 46th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$43,660
$56,310
$68,270
$84,480
$103,990
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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 49 of 68 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 Library is $63,624, 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 Ramsey County, Minnesota
This role is reported in 32 jurisdictions. In Ramsey County, Minnesota, the median of $63,624 ranks #18 of 32. See Librarian across all of Ramsey County, Minnesota →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.