California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) librarian salary, 2025

The California Department of State Hospitals is a state department: the State Controller's file lists its librarians at 5 facilities. Its figures are compared with the state as a whole, not one county. 5 people worked as librarians for California Department of State Hospitals in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its librarian titles runs from $67,788 to $102,732.

What does California Department of State Hospitals pay its librarians?

Official pay range1

$67,788 to $102,732

from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest librarian title

Average total pay, full-year librarians1

Fewer than 5

5 librarians in all, 4 of them full-year: too few for an average.

Median total pay
Fewer than 5
the middle librarian: half earned more, half less
Overtime
Fewer than 5
average per full-year librarian
Starting salary
Not reported
no plain Librarian or Librarian I range
Average pay rank
Fewer than 5
too few full-year staff to rank

What does each librarian title at California Department of State Hospitals pay?

Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1

  1. Librarian (Residental Care Centers), Range A$67,788 to $93,600 · fewer than 5 people
    Fewer than 5
  2. Senior Librarian (Specialist) (Residential Care Centers), Range A$74,460 to $102,732 · fewer than 5 people
    Fewer than 5

official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.

What do librarians earn around California Department of State Hospitals?

Average total pay of full-year librarians across Statewide County and across California. California Department of State Hospitals's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its librarians worked the full year.1

What do librarians earn at employers near California Department of State Hospitals?

California Department of State Hospitals has no average of its own. These are the closest employers that report one, in Statewide County and the counties next to it, with their figure for prison or state hospital operators where they have one. They're other employers' figures, not an estimate of its pay.1

Average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included. Each employer's own year.

Questions about librarian pay at California Department of State Hospitals

Why is there no average librarian salary for California Department of State Hospitals?

5 people worked as librarians for California Department of State Hospitals in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.

What is the pay range for a librarian at California Department of State Hospitals?

The official range across California Department of State Hospitals's librarian titles runs from $67,788 to $102,732 in 2025.

More public salaries at California Department of State Hospitals

Sources for the California Department of State Hospitals figures

Every person who held a librarian position at California Department of State Hospitals at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.

  1. State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by California Department of State Hospitals.

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