G) Wages and Career Outlook

Salaries for public historians vary depending on the profession, skills and education. They can fluctuate from volunteer, docents, receiving federal grants and or scholarships from private institutions or part time projects or full time positions.

For more information about job outlooks for Public Historians, see the following sites:

The National Center for Public History's Public History Jobs Guide
US Bureau of Labor Statistics's Archivists and Curators Job Outlook from the 1998-1999 Job Outlook Handbook
US Bureau of Labor Statistics's Social Scientists/Historians Job Outlook from the 1998-1999 Job Outlook Handbook


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Prepared by Yvonne Tu, for HST 594--Independent Study--Public History, with assistance from Professor Catherine Lavender, Department of History, The College of Staten Island/CUNY. Last updated: Monday, 29 March 1999.