Library Director Salary in Los Angeles, CA

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What is the salary range of a Library Director?

As of August 01, 2025, the average annual salary for a Library Director in Los Angeles, CA ranges from $77,180 (25th percentile) to $94,220 (75th percentile), with a median annual salary of $85,147 and an hourly rate of $41. A Library Director's salary is shaped by several key factors, including experience level, specific skills, industry differences, company size, and more. Below, we'll explore how each of these influences compensation.

View as table View as graph 25% $77,180 10% $69,926 90% $102,480 75% $94,220 $85,147 50%(Median) Didn’t find job title? Click

Library Director Salaries by Percentile

Annual
Salary
Monthly
Pay
Weekly
Pay
Hourly
Wage
75th Percentile $94,220 $7,852 $1,812 $45
Average $85,147 $7,096 $1,637 $41
25th Percentile $77,180 $6,432 $1,484 $37
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How does experience level affect a Library Director's Salary?

An entry-level Library Director with under 1 year experience makes about $81,847. With less than 2 years of experience, a mid-level Library Director makes around $82,086. After 2-4 years, the Library Director pay rises to about $85,147. Those senior Library Director with 5-8 years of experience earn roughly $88,883, and those Library Director having 8 years or more experience are expected to earn about $89,149 on average.

Levels Salary
Entry Level Library Director $81,847
Intermediate Level Library Director $82,086
Senior Level Library Director $85,147
Specialist Level Library Director $88,883
Expert Level Library Director $89,149
$81,847 0 yr
$82,086 < 2 yrs
$85,147 2-4 yrs
$88,883 5-8 yrs
$89,149 > 8 yrs
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Best-Paid Skills and Qualifications for Library Director

What skills does a Library Director need?

Each competency has five to ten behavioral assertions that can be observed, each with a corresponding performance level (from one to five) that is required for a particular job.

  1. Commitment: An agreement or pledge to do something in the future a commitment to improve conditions at the prison especially : an engagement to assume a financial obligation at a future date.
  2. Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is a suite of desktop productivity applications that is designed by Microsoft for business use. You can create documents containing text and images, work with data in spreadsheets and databases, create presentations and posters.
  3. Content Management: Content management (CM) is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. When stored and accessed via computers, this information may be more specifically referred to as digital content, or simply as content. Digital content may take the form of text (such as electronic documents), multimedia files (such as audio or video files), or any other file type that follows a content lifecycle requiring management.The process is complex enough to manage that several large and small commercial software vendors such as Interwoven and Microsoft offer content management software to control and automate significant aspects of the content lifecycle.
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Skills Demand Percentage
Commitment 6.18%
Microsoft Office 2.06%
Content Management 1.14%
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