58 TABLE 31: FILLED POSITIONS AVERAGE, MEDIAN, AND BEGINNING PROFESSIONAL SALARIES AND AVERAGE YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN CANADIAN ARL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, FY 2005-06* Filled Positions Average Salaries Median Salaries Beginning Salaries Average Yrs. Exp. Institution FY 2006 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY2005 FY2006 FY2005 FY2006 FY 2006 Alberta ‡ 65 $78,706 $79,028 $82,364 $84,550 $43,910 $45,447 16.9 British Columbia ‡ 76 73,931 71,766 72,085 68,910 44,700 44,700 16.1 Guelph ‡ 39 67,991 71,439 65,278 69,447 41,187 42,217 18.6 Laval 63 65,415 62,559 69,620 68,283 42,683 42,683 17.6 McGill ‡ 55 69,949 70,820 73,414 73,217 41,000 41,000 19.6 McMaster ‡ 25 69,692 69,652 68,190 69,384 39,610 40,798 18.5 Manitoba ‡ 43 76,794 79,885 80,379 82,526 42,566 43,843 22.9 Montreal ‡ 90 63,666 63,733 63,214 63,214 40,260 41,541 16.1 Queen’s ‡ 34 73,795 76,676 73,355 76,660 42,149 43,413 19.3 Saskatchewan ‡ 38 74,423 73,473 72,008 70,212 41,807 41,807 16.8 Toronto ‡ 144 77,937 79,101 82,426 81,799 45,000 45,800 16.8 Waterloo ‡ 33 70,159 72,667 71,212 74,767 40,517 41,854 20.0 Western Ontario ‡ 64 59,280 60,795 56,795 58,057 45,340 46,470 14.2 York ‡ 55 84,327 86,418 82,738 80,371 42,226 42,225 16.4 * Salaries expressed in Canadian dollars. Directors are included in figures for average years of experience and filled positions, but not in the average and median salary statistics. Excludes Canadian medical and law libraries. See Tables 35 and 42 for statistics related to medical and law library salaries. ‡ See Footnotes.