Compared with the local labor market
Library Technician pay vs. Minnesota
Across all employers in Minnesota, the median wage for Library Technicians — about 1,180 people — is $51,110. MN St Colleges & Universities pays a median base salary of $58,105 for this role, 14% above that figure — about the 67th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where MN St Colleges & Universities sits in the local pay range
$34,340
$45,970
$51,110
$61,260
$63,480
MN St Colleges & Universities median · $58,105
The bar is the range of annual wages for Library Technicians across every employer in Minnesota, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows MN St Colleges & Universities’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Library Technicians — about 68,690 people — is $44,580. MN St Colleges & Universities’s median base salary is 30% above that national figure, about the 83rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$29,300
$35,740
$44,580
$52,430
$63,080
MN St Colleges & Universities median · $58,105
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 Minnesota range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 77 of 90 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 MN St Colleges & Universities is $56,384, 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.