What is the highest and lowest pay for Museum Director?

As of December 01, 2024, the average annual pay of Museum Director in Lowell, MA is $71,567. While Salary.com is seeing that the highest pay for Museum Director in Lowell, MA can go up to $106,133 and the lowest down to $48,146, but most earn between $59,307 and $89,660. Salary.com shows the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Museum Director in the United States.

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Museum Director Salaries by Percentile
Percentile Salary Location Last Updated
10th Percentile Museum Director Salary $48,146 Lowell,MA December 01, 2024
25th Percentile Museum Director Salary $59,307 Lowell,MA December 01, 2024
50th Percentile Museum Director Salary $71,567 Lowell,MA December 01, 2024
75th Percentile Museum Director Salary $89,660 Lowell,MA December 01, 2024
90th Percentile Museum Director Salary $106,133 Lowell,MA December 01, 2024
25% $59,307 10% $48,146 90% $106,133 75% $89,660 $71,567 50%(Median) Didn’t find job title? Click
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What is a Museum Director ?

A curator (from Latin: cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library, or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material. A traditional curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort — artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific collections. More recently, new kinds of curators have started to emerge: curators of digital data objects and biocurators....

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    Retail Store Manager - Museum

    3 - 5 years experience
    Bachelor's Degree

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    Museum Director

    5 + years experience
    Bachelor's Degree

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These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Museum Director in Lowell, MA. The base salary for Museum Director ranges from $59,307 to $89,660 with the average base salary of $71,567. The total cash compensation, which includes base, and annual incentives, can vary anywhere from $59,847 to $89,781 with the average total cash compensation of $72,338.

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About Lowell, Massachusetts    Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massach....More

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