Association of African American Museums

The Association of African American Museums will conduct the first salary survey focused on people who work, or recently worked, in African American museums. The project team will work with a research firm to develop the survey instrument, test it with a sample of museums, and then launch the full survey. Findings will provide data that informs two research questions: 1) whether staff at African American museums do not have compensation equity with their counterparts at other, predominantly white museums, and 2) whether low salaries are leading to high staff turnover. The project team will publish research findings widely and, if the survey results show that the hypotheses are correct, they will create a toolkit to help African American museums create more equitable compensation for their staff.