Education & Library

Archivists

SOC 25-4011

Acquire, appraise, and preserve historical records and documents.

The job

Median pay

$65k

$51k to $83k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing

+3.4% projected

Openings a year

1.1k

BLS projection

Typical education

Master's

Our model

AI displacement risk

Very high

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

8/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

96th pct

More exposed than 96% of occupations · modeled estimate · 85th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

45/100

At a glance

Modeled AI exposure for Archivists ranks at the 96th percentile; displacement risk is very high and works-with-AI 8/100, closer to displacement than to help. Projected employment change for 2025 to 2035 is +3.4%, close to the typical occupation we cover. Roughly 1,100 positions open up annually for Archivists, counting growth and replacement, a thin hiring pool by comparison. The usual way in is a master's degree. A median wage of $64,550 sits in line with the typical occupation we cover (in line with the Education & Library median). Set against Middle School Teachers (-0.4%), the +3.4% projection here is 3.8 points higher.

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Key skills

Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Writing
Speaking
Critical Thinking
Active Learning

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	1,160	0.1	1.2×	$71k
New York	960	0.1	1.9×	$74k
Maryland	660	0.2	4.7×	$76k
Washington	640	0.2	3.5×	$76k
Texas	490	0.0	0.7×	$50k
Pennsylvania	360	0.1	1.2×	$61k
Massachusetts	270	0.1	1.4×	$78k
Virginia	222 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$65k (estimated)
Wisconsin	220	0.1	1.5×	$59k
Washington DC	200	0.3	5.6×	$93k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Illinois	200	0.0	0.6×	$59k
Connecticut	160	0.1	1.8×	$80k
Michigan	160	0.0	0.7×	$64k
Georgia	150	0.0	0.6×	$59k
Missouri	150	0.1	1.0×	$60k
Ohio	150	0.0	0.5×	$59k
Arizona	133 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$47k
North Carolina	130	0.0	0.5×	$55k
Tennessee	110	0.0	0.7×	$53k
Alabama	100	0.0	0.9×	$58k
Florida	100	0.0	0.2×	$52k
Minnesota	90	0.0	0.6×	$66k
Oklahoma	80	0.0	0.9×	$52k
Utah	80	0.0	0.9×	$57k
Colorado	70	0.0	0.5×	$59k
Indiana	70	0.0	0.4×	$54k
New Jersey	70	0.0	0.3×	$68k
Oregon	70	0.0	0.7×	$62k
Mississippi	61 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$53k (estimated)
Maine	60	0.1	1.8×	$56k
South Carolina	60	0.0	0.5×	$53k
Nebraska	54 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$64k (estimated)
Nevada	52 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$59k (estimated)
Delaware	50	0.1	2.0×	$54k
Louisiana	50	0.0	0.5×	$59k
New Hampshire	50	0.1	1.4×	$61k
New Mexico	47 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$67k (estimated)
Arkansas	40	0.0	0.6×	$59k
Iowa	40	0.0	0.5×	$59k
Kentucky	40	0.0	0.4×	$49k
Rhode Island	40	0.1	1.6×	$77k
West Virginia	37 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$56k (estimated)
Hawaii	36 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$63k (estimated)
Idaho	30	0.0	0.7×	$58k
Kansas	30	0.0	0.4×	$49k
Montana	25 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$52k (estimated)
South Dakota	23 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$52k (estimated)
North Dakota	22 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$59k (estimated)
Vermont	22 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.4× (estimated)	$66k (estimated)
Wyoming	18 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.3× (estimated)	$56k (estimated)
Alaska	17 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$80k (estimated)

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ760 jobs · $77k median
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV670 jobs · $85k median
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA490 jobs · $71k median
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA310 jobs · $79k median
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD230 jobs · $76k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH230 jobs · $78k median
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA180 jobs · $74k median
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN160 jobs · $58k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.