49 ARL Annual Salary Survey 2015–2016 Table 27: Average Salaries of Professional Staff in ARL University Libraries by Position and Geographic Region, FY 2015–2016, Part 2 East South Central (6) West South Central (9) Mountain (7) Pacific (12) Canada (15) Position Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Director 203,505 6 229,898 9 215,164 7 240,514 11 173,259 15 Associate Director 122,561 16 104,862 35 137,102 12 143,095 34 120,048 40 Assistant Director ‡ 2 103,508 10 126,653 8 110,768 16 97,372 15 Head, Branch 78,212 18 80,197 31 76,750 4 81,798 28 99,464 47 Administrative Specialist 62,187 18 69,841 44 75,951 26 79,638 56 72,094 68 Digital Specialist 59,796 53 64,712 84 72,974 71 74,440 136 74,249 128 Functional Specialist 58,081 43 55,451 108 66,757 47 72,054 100 75,553 66 Subject Specialist 65,031 53 60,372 112 70,719 81 76,564 215 77,255 203 Dept. Head, Acquisitions 76,869 5 75,425 7 84,963 6 84,724 10 102,790 15 Dept. Head, Research/ Reference/Information or Learning Commons ‡ 3 73,315 13 81,146 9 100,245 11 89,831 15 Dept. Head, Cataloging 74,498 11 71,493 8 86,891 5 92,505 12 89,223 11 Dept. Head, Circulation ‡ 2 74,272 10 ‡ 5 81,602 12 81,296 14 Dept. Head, Rare Books/ Manuscripts/Special Collections 86,517 5 75,942 10 96,356 8 85,848 8 103,966 12 Dept. Head, Library Technology 93,008 4 81,679 5 98,098 9 108,120 13 85,480 8 Dept. Head, Other 71,519 20 73,564 52 88,737 13 92,417 82 91,524 60 Public Services ‡ 3 50,610 23 ‡ 3 58,913 6 75,299 42 Technical Services ‡ 1 56,054 7 ‡ 1 59,633 13 75,335 21 Research/Reference/ Instruction 62,657 39 55,324 35 66,762 44 75,046 77 80,438 104 Cataloger/Metadata Analysts 60,049 20 56,475 43 68,255 32 80,782 62 80,988 41 All Positions: 70,802 322 68,467 646 78,726 391 83,646 902 83,756 925 Excludes medical and law libraries. Canadian salaries are expressed in US dollars. ()Indicates number of ARL libraries included. ‡ Salary data are not published when fewer than four individuals are involved. When this applies to only one position category, a second category is also not published.