48 TABLE 25: AVERAGE SALARIES OF ARL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIANS BY POSITION AND GEOGRAPHIC REGION, FY 2005-06* Northeast North Central South West Canada Total New Middle East West South East West Mountain Pacific England Atlantic N.Central N.Central Atlantic S.Central S.Central Position (9) (14) (17) (7) (18) (6) (9) (7) (12) (14) (113) Director $180,846 $210,114 $168,257 $164,604 $182,260 $151,086 $175,438 $147,808 $173,477 $115,721 $168,894 Associate Director 122,836 115,114 100,974 101,747 100,078 87,233 94,653 98,738 110,927 85,136 102,484 Assistant Director 89,772 98,539 88,307 93,519 89,592 † 87,741 96,246 118,271 73,124 92,478 Head, Branch 81,640 76,036 69,672 66,707 61,127 62,373 63,369 69,204 73,251 68,782 70,179 Functional Specialist 63,055 58,622 50,777 57,098 56,013 50,985 48,702 55,124 64,485 54,276 56,491 Subject Specialist 63,595 61,218 57,392 58,062 52,870 48,387 51,340 58,805 66,252 55,502 58,871 Dept. Head: Acquisitions 72,603 66,823 67,516 67,618 68,160 75,757 58,508 74,890 64,269 63,445 67,821 Reference 74,769 76,621 67,506 69,301 68,884 66,791 57,432 66,405 81,652 62,564 69,618 Cataloging 76,694 64,957 63,776 62,116 58,839 58,244 62,053 71,912 68,556 64,867 65,898 Serials † 69,038 62,187 † 57,715 † † 61,589 65,029 69,996 62,301 Documents/Maps 64,640 62,023 56,418 61,253 57,157 † 55,404 50,851 68,247 68,909 60,082 Circulation 63,800 59,997 63,938 63,381 62,228 † 54,833 71,549 61,196 59,482 61,342 Rare Books/Manuscripts 87,249 77,713 67,930 80,319 74,674 † 55,510 68,267 81,430 66,107 74,386 Computer Systems 87,453 89,646 76,661 78,917 75,050 77,300 77,564 81,653 82,896 66,877 79,332 Other 74,202 68,575 66,586 64,018 65,693 64,100 57,744 65,851 74,348 62,814 66,629 Reference: Over 14 years experience 64,757 59,882 57,181 53,724 53,705 58,044 46,805 56,449 65,875 62,447 59,134 10 to 14 years experience 56,358 51,130 49,363 47,073 49,756 48,927 45,858 50,531 55,223 54,000 51,377 5 to 9 years experience 52,438 47,439 46,838 46,660 46,381 44,539 41,132 46,541 48,970 48,224 47,591 Under 5 years experience 49,380 43,254 42,407 43,319 42,057 42,348 37,859 40,033 42,690 41,026 41,970 Cataloging: Over 14 years experience 63,135 58,202 54,445 54,970 53,426 51,396 47,030 55,351 65,998 60,009 57,631 10 to 14 years experience 54,222 50,369 50,407 46,183 46,087 † 44,976 50,478 53,697 45,895 49,474 5 to 9 years experience 52,780 45,452 46,689 45,006 44,539 † 42,108 45,020 50,824 45,227 47,338 Under 5 years experience 47,778 44,178 41,662 40,891 42,210 40,103 38,475 42,376 45,274 44,661 43,440 Other: Over 14 years experience 66,767 63,698 65,740 53,013 58,823 61,472 52,676 56,567 68,164 61,499 63,060 10 to 14 years experience 57,300 54,524 53,982 53,574 48,250 † 51,603 51,571 † 55,061 53,943 5 to 9 years experience 52,918 51,976 45,782 44,694 45,463 45,782 41,287 41,230 49,271 45,286 47,314 Under 5 years experience 50,148 38,698 40,097 47,337 42,659 43,305 40,198 46,850 48,248 40,222 43,622 All Positions: Average Salary $66,944 $64,942 $59,959 $60,437 $60,293 $58,060 $55,267 $60,780 $68,789 $59,202 $62,148 No. of Staff 1085 1097 1286 435 1123 304 581 416 845 824 7996 * Canadian salaries expressed in U.S. dollars. Excludes medical and law libraries. ( ) Indicates number of ARL libraries included. † Salary data are not published when fewer than four individuals are involved. N/A – No positions were reported in this category.