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Salary Librarian Australia | Australian Librarian Salaries

Average Librarian Salary / Wages

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Salary and pay information for librarians is compiled regularly by analysis of Australian jobs advertised in major publications. Salaries are annual unless otherwise stated.

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations Code (ANZSCO) is 224611 for librarians.

Job titles and exact tasks vary in this work and examples of some occupation titles are librarian, bibliographer, cataloguer, children’s librarian, legal librarian, reference librarian and special needs librarian.

This occupation is currently on the Australian Combined Skilled Occupation List, Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL).

The average Australian weekly full-time ordinary earnings across all occupations in mid-2018 were $1,586, giving an annual income of approximately $82,472. This was 2.6% higher than in mid-2017.*

Data supplied from Indeed over the past 36 months, based on over 300 salaries, estimated that the average salary for a librarian was $76,020 per year in Australia in 2017/18.

Librarian Salaries / Wages in 2018

Job TitleSalary / Wage $Location
Local Studies and Family History Librarian

70,000 – 89,000 Sydney
Librarian, Information Services

66,000 – 72,000 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Liaison and Lending & Enquiry Services Librarian

70,000 – 89,000 Sydney
Media Technologist

66,000 – 72,000 New South Wales
Library Technician, Grade 5

$1,015 – $1,137 per weekNew South Wales
Information Resources Librarian, Band 5

67,000 – 77,000 Victoria
Subject Librarian

85,500 – 93,800 Melbourne, Victoria
Children’s and Youth Services Librarian, Band 5

67,000 – 77,000 Victoria
Local History Librarian

65,000 – 80,000 Brisbane, Queensland
Reference Librarian

65,000 – 80,000 Queensland
Systems and Data Librarian

77,000 – 88,000 ACT
Assistant Librarian

68,000 Perth, Western Australia

*Source:ABS

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