Museum Curator
Everything OPM FedScope (June 2026) reports about the Museum Curator occupation series (code 1015): headcount, average salary, length of service, and pay comparison.
The verdict
Museum Curator is a smaller, specialized federal occupation: 490 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) in the Information and Arts Group family. At an average salary of $125,118 it pays near the federal average, and headcount edged down from the prior period.
- Headcount change
- -0.6%
- Pay change
- -0.2%
- Avg tenure
- 17.5 yrs
- Rank in family
- #9 of 19
What the Numbers Say About Museum Curator
On pay, the move between reporting periods was a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change. On length of service, this series shows a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement. Headcount moved down versus the prior period, though at this small a headcount, year-to-year swings can reflect a handful of hires or departures rather than a broad hiring trend.
Code 10, the Information and Arts Group family, is where the federal government classifies Museum Curator alongside 18 related occupations. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Museum Curator postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Information and Arts Group family. Across the Information and Arts Group family, 14,755 employees work in 19 occupations; Museum Curator is 3.3% of that headcount.
Salary context · rich-pay series
How Museum Curator pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$125,118
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+6.6%
Where Museum Curator ranks on rich federal pay
Museum Curator earns more on average than 72% of federal occupation series (389 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Museum Curator sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Museum Curator.
Related Occupations in Information and Arts Group
10 other occupations in the same family
| Occupation | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Affairs | 5,552 | $129,060 | 14.3 yrs |
| General Arts and Information | 2,759 | $126,733 | 14.5 yrs |
| Visual Information | 1,245 | $110,638 | 15.6 yrs |
| Language Specialist | 864 | $117,705 | 11.8 yrs |
| Technical Writing and Editing | 816 | $128,063 | 14.1 yrs |
| Writing and Editing | 760 | $138,055 | 15.2 yrs |
| Museum Specialist and Technician | 657 | $91,362 | 13.8 yrs |
| Audiovisual Production | 619 | $128,404 | 16 yrs |
| Interior Design | 355 | $105,579 | 11 yrs |
| Exhibits Specialist | 268 | $103,348 | 16.7 yrs |
Nationwide occupation series with similar scale or pay
Two peer sets for Museum Curator outside the Information and Arts Group family, on headcount and average salary axes that vary across all OPM occupation series.
Similar headcount
Nearest employee counts in other occupation families (490 here).
Similar rich average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($125,118 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Museum Curator pay in context with the pay-rank chart above, then compare it with another occupation.
- Turn an average salary into a grade: the GS pay grade tables show how grades and steps map to pay.
- Browse the Information and Arts Group family occupations in the table above, or search current Museum Curator postings on USAJOBS.
OPM FedScope and Federal Workforce Data figures are federal civilian headcounts, average salaries, and length-of-service statistics - not job-quality scores, hiring advice, or a live vacancy listing. A larger or higher-paid agency is not a better employer.