Salary Survey Trends 2014–2015 · 21 Figure 6c: Average Salary by Percentile in Libraries with Four Step Rank Structures, FY 2014–2015 No. of Staff Low 25th Percentile Median 75th Percentile High Librarian 1 494 37,678 50,364 56,146 63,977 119,800 Librarian 2 920 38,642 56,244 63,720 75,500 174,302 Librarian 3 1331 42,734 64,580 74,556 88,110 209,450 Librarian 4 648 50,000 77,268 88,930 109,194 247,800 Figure 6d: Average Salary by Percentile in Libraries with Five Step Rank Structures, FY 2014–2015 No. of Staff Low 25th Percentile Median 75th Percentile High Librarian 1 249 33,155 49,978 58,743 66,817 102,605 Librarian 2 302 33,100 54,704 64,048 71,600 96,923 Librarian 3 471 33,975 61,986 75,110 86,154 125,943 Librarian 4 319 50,228 71,531 86,989 102,071 232,833 Librarian 5 138 40,500 86,237 102,859 124,481 175,000 Inflation Effect Tables 2 and 6 reveal changes in beginning professional and median salaries as reported by both university and nonuniversity research libraries as well as the US Bureau of Labor’s Cost of Living Index (CPI-All Urban Consumers). Table 3 is similar to Table 2, but reports data only on US libraries. Table 4 shows trend data for Canadian libraries and compares them to the changes in the Canadian Consumer Price Index (Consumer Price Index for Canada, all-items, not seasonally adjusted). Tables 2, 3, and 4 include law and medical library staff in ARL university libraries. Tables 3 and 4 indicate that the purchasing power of professionals in the United States did not keep pace with inflation, while the purchasing power of their Canadian counterparts surpassed inflation. US salaries were almost on par with inflation in 2014–2015. US CPI increased by 2% (see Table 3),5 and the median salary for US ARL university libraries in 2014–2015 increased by 1.8% to $70,000 (see Table 3). Canadian salaries (reported in Canadian dollars) surpassed inflation: the Canadian CPI increased 2.1%, while median salaries in Canadian university libraries increased by 3.2% to $92,000 (Canadian dollars, see Table 4).6 The median beginning salary (BPS) for university ARL librarians remained $48,000 in 2014–2015 (see Table 2). Table 6 shows that the median for beginning salaries in nonuniversity libraries increased to $51,888 in 2014–2015, and the overall median salary for nonuniversity librarians increased to $95,329. Readers are reminded that these data reflect only salaries, and that there are other compensation issues which may have influenced the pattern of salaries in various institutions. In addition, a highly standardized structure for capturing data has been used, which may portray results in a way that cannot be fully representative of a local situation. 5 CPI data retrieved from the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index-All Urban Consumers (US All items, 1982-84=100 -CUUR0000SA0) available online at http://www.bls.gov/data/. 6 The source for Canadian CPI data is Table 5: The Consumer Price Index for Canada (All-Items, Not Seasonally Adjusted, Historical Data) published in The Daily, a Statistics Canada publication, available online at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/62-001-x/62- 001-x2015002-eng.htm.
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