What do we mean by staff?

Staff in museums and archives carry out a wide range of different roles.

For museums:

The Museums Association’s Salary Guidelines 2017 categorise museum roles into 7 job areas:

• Museum attendants/front of house
• Museum technicians and buildings management
• Fundraising and marketing
• Learning, programming and outreach
• Conservators
• Curators and collections management
• Directors/museum managers

For archives:

The Archives & Records Association lists:

• Salary Recommendations for the Record-Keeping Sector
• Competency framework
• Job role outlines for archivists, archive conservators and records management

Archives also commonly employ staff covering similar roles to museums.