The 2010 edition of the “ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian - Public and Academic” revealed average increases across all six position types, ranging from 2 percent for managers of support staff to 13 percent for directors of public and academic libraries.
The survey is based on data from more than 580 library directors and human resources staff members who reported more than 11,000 salaries, giving this year’s survey a remarkable 35 percent response rate. The data is available in two ways – immediately for subscribers to the “ALA-APA Library Salary Database” and in print from the American Library Association (ALA) online store. Data can be used by employers to justify budgets, job seekers looking for salary ranges, human resources departments conducting pay equity studies and researchers tracking compensation trends.
In contrast to 2009’s mean and median decrease, analysis of 2010 data for librarians with ALA-accredited master’s degrees showed a 3 percent mean increase from $58,860 in 2009 to $60,734 and a 2 percent median increase from $54,500 in 2009 to $55,883. Salaries ranged from $22,000 (ALA minimum) to $302,500.
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