Museum Conservator
Stabilises and restores objects using chemistry, craft and documentation. Every treatment must be reversible and recorded.
- Pay band (est.)
- $47k–$83k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- studio
- Leverage
- low
- Place constraint
- high
- Physical demand
- 35/100
- Hours burden
- 42/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play86th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge95th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage14th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand38th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay9th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body74th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy29th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit49th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility8th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance79th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Extremely few positions; graduate training with no guarantee.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is high. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 42/100 and people intensity 35/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Museum Technicians and Conservators (25-4013): median $47,460, 90th percentile $82,790. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +3.6%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.