Whether someone is overqualified or overpaid depends on the other people available to do the job. For librarians, MA is not overqualified. It is qualified. As for $25/hr, the point of my argument was that in most of the USA, $25/hr is not an extravagant wage. It's pretty solidly middle class. It would be a lot if you're 22 and not much if you're 55. It's weird if rural America, this is consider "too much" for a head librarian. That shows that rural wages are way out of line with urban wages.