Just a word of warning. You won't be able to live on your salary alone. If you are lucky enough to get a job at all, you will be making very little. Prepare yourself for less than $30K. Also the job market is extremely tight in the Bay area. I have a BA in History from an Ivy League, an MA in Museum Studies, lived in the area for 2 years, volunteered at 2 local museums, and made tons of connections. Still I never managed to land a museum job. I also found out I make more working in the library here at Stanford than comparable level museum positions, and if it weren't for my wife being an engineer, I couldn't live here. On the up side, the area is great, the people are great, and I am glad to be here and want to stay. I would also happily give you any names and contact info to the people I met in my networking frenzy. What sort of museum are you interested in? (I don't mean to sound bitter. I would take a lower paying museum job if my family concerns would allow that. I intend on continuing to support museums, but from the outside.) Vincent Lyon At 10:00 AM 1/11/2001 -0800, you wrote: >I am relocating from Florida to California and would >like some salary advice from those of you in the >museum field. > >I am a recent B.A. graduate of art history, with >mainly just internship experience. My work history >has, also, given me strong computer and organizational >skills; I have served one year as a registrar at a >charter school. > >I would like to know if any of you could offer advice >regarding average salaries for museum entry-level >positions (i.e. registrar's assistant; exhibition >assistant, and education assistant) in both/either San >Francisco and/or L.A. The costs of living are quite >higher in CA than FL, so I'd like to know how salaries >differ and what to expect. Please feel free to answer >either on Museum-L or at my e-mail. > >Any tips would be appreciated! > >Thanks, > >Ginger Hill > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! >http://photos.yahoo.com/ > >========================================================= >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at >http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed >information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail >message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should >read "help" (without the quotes). > >If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to >[log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read >"Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). Vincent T. Lyon Robert Crown Law Library Stanford University 650-725-0810 [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).