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Job outlook for humanities coordinators in the United States
Are humanities coordinator jobs in demand?
Humanities coordinator job and salary trends over time
Humanities coordinator jobs over time
Humanities coordinator job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 388 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 430 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 450 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 453 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 459 | 0.00% |
Average humanities coordinator salary over time
Humanities coordinator salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $41,615 | $20.01 | +0.7% |
| 2025 | $41,307 | $19.86 | +2.9% |
| 2024 | $40,161 | $19.31 | +2.6% |
| 2023 | $39,148 | $18.82 | +1.9% |
| 2022 | $38,437 | $18.48 | +2.8% |
Humanities coordinator jobs by state
Most common states for humanities coordinators
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 380 | 20% |
| 2 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 556 | 18% |
| 3 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 133 | 18% |
| 4 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 505 | 17% |
| 5 | Delaware | 961,939 | 164 | 17% |
| 6 | Arkansas | 3,004,279 | 431 | 14% |
| 7 | New Mexico | 2,088,070 | 301 | 14% |
| 8 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 110 | 13% |
| 9 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 207 | 12% |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 3,930,864 | 413 | 11% |
| 11 | Alabama | 4,874,747 | 496 | 10% |
| 12 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 50 | 4% |
| 13 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 26 | 4% |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 223 | 3% |
| 15 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 31 | 3% |
| 16 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 27 | 3% |
| 17 | Vermont | 623,657 | 18 | 3% |
| 18 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 17 | 3% |
| 19 | Connecticut | 3,588,184 | 74 | 2% |
| 20 | Nevada | 2,998,039 | 65 | 2% |
Most common cities for humanities coordinators
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Rosa | 1 | 1% | $64,816 |
| 2 | Washington | 1 | 0% | $56,649 |
Humanities Coordinator job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of humanities coordinator experts
Lewis-Clark State College
Hanover College
University of Central Arkansas
Connecticut College
Heidelberg University
Brigham Young University
Austin Community College
Wichita State University
Marshall University
What skills stand out on Humanities Coordinator resumes?
Amy Minervini: The humanities coordinator should have experience in higher education as well as familiarity with project management. They must also balance budgets and determine how a company's finances will be allocated throughout the year. They should be innovative, creative problem solvers who can lead teams without micromanaging. They should also be well versed in in-person teaching and distance learning. Superior oral and written skills are a must, as is familiarity with Zoom or other online meeting tools.
What soft skills should all Humanities Coordinators possess?
Amy Minervini: A humanities coordinator should foremost be diplomatic. Their job requires them to liaise among students, faculty, and administrators--each of whom has different needs and end goals. The coordinator should be flexible and accommodating, compassionate, and empathetic. The coordinator should also be the person a faculty member can feel comfortable approaching for guidance and support. Finally, the coordinator should recognize their employees' strengths and find ways to highlight their talents.
What hard/technical skills are most important for Humanities Coordinators?
Amy Minervini: Strong digital communication skills are necessary. The humanities coordinator may need to be involved in marketing their division's events to the rest of the college or the community. Excellent writing skills are also essential. The humanities coordinator will send off dozens of emails a day, craft monthly, quarterly, or annual reports, and write performance reviews and recommendations for employees.
What skills will help Humanities Coordinators earn the most?
Amy Minervini: Having a master's degree is the minimum, but having a Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree will help a humanities coordinator to earn more. Technical know-how is also crucial--familiarity with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and online learning systems, such as Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle. Since many colleges are moving to open educational resources, a person who can lead in this area can be a great resource.
Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of SpanishHanover College
Department of Modern Languages
What skills stand out on Humanities Coordinator resumes?
Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar Ph.D.: Something that stands out in any resume is the ability to speak two or more languages. If we are thinking of medievalists and early modern professionals, having a good command of romance languages and other European languages will be a great asset without any type of doubt. In any case, for anybody interested in history, it is critical to know the languages spoken in the studied space and those in the surrounding areas as an excellent way to understand and monitor mutual influences. Likewise, grads with a major in medieval, early modern, or general history, will have more opportunities in the job market if they show imagination and creativity as skills in their resumes. Unfortunately, we can only travel in time with our minds; being able to supply with our imagination and creativity what we cannot see presently is extremely important for a good historian. We often count on scarce, disconnected pieces of information, and having the necessary imagination to sense the possible connections is essential to develop a meticulous methodology to support our research findings. Talking about methods, if it is true that we need to be very imaginative to set the first steps to reconstruct history, we also need to be very systematic to produce a rigorous vision that we can call history and not fiction!
What soft skills should all Humanities Coordinators possess?
Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar Ph.D.: As professionals with expertise in the past, our best contribution is to help people see history from a non-presentist point of view. Presentism tends to judge history with our present values and morals, which highly prevents us from understanding the studied period itself. While this type of judgment is debunked at a synchronic level -we don't apply our values spatially- we still see examples of this perspective diachronically applied when comparing different periods to ours. Judging history this way is unfair to the period we are analyzing. It can also lead us to dismiss significant advancements as just backward attitudes because, of course, everything that happened before us will look "obsolete" to our eyes. Although we can see a particular event in history as something negative according to our standards, it could have represented a major step ahead for the world at that moment. So, for professionals who deal with previous ages, connecting humans across time and not only across space is a priceless skill nowadays. With the vast increase in scholarship on the past, we will need more professionals able to transport people from one period to the other and help them understand its importance in the whole picture of a specific human group or the whole of humankind. This is what will allow us to value our present correctly. The most precious soft skill for everyone is often to try to understand before judging. Connectors are a great source of creativity and growth.
What skills will help Humanities Coordinators earn the most?
Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar Ph.D.: If we focus on the future, we are observing a merging between the sciences and the humanities. We are experiencing the rise of what C.P. Snow called "the third culture." And it makes sense because, with our current ability to process extensive amounts of information, we are opening doors to study history and the past in many disciplines from a more holistic perspective. People in the humanities and the sciences are getting closer in methodologies, technologies, and languages. Anybody wanting to have a flourishing career will need to have an interdisciplinary education that will enable them to cross-disciplinary boundaries. While scientists are getting more acquainted with disciplines like philosophy or literature (for instance, narrative medicine), humanists need to become familiar with statistics, coding, or cognitive sciences. With the rise of automation, humans who can see the whole picture will be more necessary than ever.
Dr. Katherine Conley
Associate Professor of EnglishUniversity of Central Arkansas
English Department
What skills stand out on Humanities Coordinator resumes?
Dr. Katherine Conley: The key reason why humanities and liberal arts majors do so well in their careers is because of the unique and flexible skill sets they bring to the job. Employers across many industries routinely cite their need for people with advanced communication skills and the capacity to think critically and analytically.
So, for example, although it might look like an English major who writes a paper on Shakespeare, Frederick Douglass, or Alice Walker is unprepared for a job in marketing and public relations, the opposite is true. Training in the humanities and liberal arts requires students to analyze ideas and perspectives that differ from their own, to discern relevant and high-quality research and sources, to articulate an original concept/point of view, to back it up with evidence-based analysis, and, ultimately, to convey the ideas in a form best suited to a specific audience.
In essence, you might say that humanities and liberal arts majors learn how to learn.
We frequently hear about how things like increased automation and artificial intelligence will irrevocably change the landscape of employment in America. The skills that will be most needed in the future are not those which can be automated by a machine or replicated by a computer program, but rather those which are uniquely human in empathetic and adaptive thinking.
What skills will help Humanities Coordinators earn the most?
Dr. Katherine Conley: Over the long term, research shows that humanities and liberal arts majors gain competitive salaries in a wide range of fields. For example, in 2019, the median salary for someone with a bachelor’s degree in English, about 5-10 years out of school, was close to $60,000. The stereotype that humanities and liberal arts majors default to working at coffee shops or turn into “starving artists" just doesn’t hold any truth.
What are the biggest trends we'll see in the Humanities Coordinator job market given the pandemic?
Julia Kushigian Ph.D.: The exciting trends for students graduating in Hispanic Studies and for those already in the job market are the potential benefits of a remote learning anticipated years ago through pedagogical tools designed by those in language, literature and culture. The interactive formulas, ability to engage participants and broaden the definition of language learning to include cultural studies of a variety of professional fields were already in the works and Covid was the impetus to move even faster. We know from a variety of studies, including a major report by the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, for example, that 9 out of 10 U.S. employers rely on employees with language skills other than English. Spanish being in high demand is the most sought after language. Of course, beyond the more obvious benefits of being bilingual ("Why Bilinguals are Smarter" NYT 2012) are the less obvious of being adept at solving certain mental problems, thriving in ambiguity, flexibility with unknowns and the potential to stave off dementia later in life.
How have salaries changed over time for Humanities Coordinators?
Julia Kushigian Ph.D.: As demand has increased, salaries have risen tremendously to try and keep pace. In fields like education, business, health care, government, social services, service related employment, law, etc., salaries have improved year over year to stay competitive.
Paige Atterholt
Adjunct ProfessorHeidelberg University
What's a good job out of college for Humanities Coordinators?
Paige Atterholt: A good job out of college is a job that you feel passionate about because I believe your happiness comes first. Being in the world of education, a good job in my eyes is a job that you enjoy going to every day, want to make an impact, and enjoy the time you have with your students.
What soft skills should all Humanities Coordinators possess?
Dr. Stephen Duncan Ph.D.: Graduates should know how to get along collaboratively, having strong interpersonal skills, empathy for others' circumstances. In the School of Family Life, we not only stress thinking, writing, and numeracy skills and data organization, but interpersonal skills of clear speaking and listening, engaging with others, and working collaboratively on a team.
How have salaries changed over time for Humanities Coordinators?
Dr. Stephen Duncan Ph.D.: The human sciences continue to be at the lower salary ranges of professional positions. Never will they rival our friends in engineering and other technical fields. Starting salaries at the bachelor's level are similar to elementary and secondary school teachers, and have followed their pattern over a number of years.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Humanities Coordinators?
Stuart Greenfield Ph.D.: According to the National Student Clearinghouse estimates for Fall 2018-Fall 2020, Nscresearchcenter, enrollment inf post-secondary institutions declined by 703.9K. Of this decline, 621.4K (88.3%) were attributed to Public 2-year institutions.
What soft skills should all Humanities Coordinators possess?
Stuart Greenfield Ph.D.: Given the changing demographics that the country has experienced, the entire education continuum must change. According to the Brookings Institution, Brookings, the non-Hispanic White population in the under 18 cohort since 2000 has declined.
As you'll note from the occupations that are projected to increase the greatest, most require face-to-face contact, so that soft-skills will be necessary. I would also expect that critical thinking skills will be needed as more responsibility will be required of front-line workers.
Sonja Armbruster
Health Sciences EducatorWichita State University
Department of Public Health Sciences
What's a day at work look like for a Humanities Coordinator?
Sonja Armbruster: The pandemic has re-defined what it even means to have a "day at work". I'm writing this response from my home office. Work in public health jobs can involve so many kinds of roles and responsibilities. The only thing I can guarantee is that the successful person seeking a career in public will be constantly curious and constantly learning. There are many public health jobs that are clearly defined with a set of protocols and software and office time that is scripted. Many more public health jobs require learning something new about community members, community partners, the system (including the department/organization one works for), the latest science and political realities that enable and constrain public health work. A day at work will involve continuously learning and seeking to understand new connections.
Dr. E.Del Chrol
Chair of Humanities, Professor of ClassicsMarshall University
Humanities Department
What certifications/licenses/courses can have the biggest impact for Humanities Coordinators?
Dr. E.Del Chrol: The courses that are most useful for employers are those that encourage writing, especially when it requires the student to conceive of and execute a large, complex project. If your major has a capstone project or Senior thesis option (and not just examination), take it. Secondarily, upper division courses that draw connections between the classical world and today are vital, especially with professors who aren't stupid. It's easy to say "Today is just like the fall of Rome!", you hear that all the time. But which fall of Rome? The one that created the long-enduring empire in 27 BCE? Or the final death in the West in 476CE (which doesn't include the Eastern empire in Constantinople)? Being able to recognize patterns as well as specificity of a historical moment is of vital importance to navigating our fraught times. That level of cultural awareness is infinitely adaptable to work that one does at a job, even a complex one. Finally, courses that tackle rhetoric are key, since, as Aristotle says, politics is the queen of disciplines. Everything is politics, and being able to navigate that is key.