Compared with the local labor market
Library Assistant I pay vs. Texas
Across all employers in Texas, the median wage for Library Assistants, Clerical — about 1,600 people — is $31,200. Texas State Library & Archives pays a median base salary of $42,150 for this role, 35% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Texas State Library & Archives sits in the local pay range
$21,900
$24,960
$31,200
$37,510
$39,940
Texas State Library & Archives median · $42,150
The bar is the range of annual wages for Library Assistants, Clerical across every employer in Texas, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Texas State Library & Archives’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Library Assistants, Clerical — about 85,520 people — is $36,910. Texas State Library & Archives’s median base salary is 14% above that national figure, about the 65th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$27,730
$31,820
$36,910
$45,620
$55,310
Texas State Library & Archives median · $42,150
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 Texas range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 14 of 18 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Texas State Library & Archives is $40,284, 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.