*Directors are included in figures for average years of experience and filled positions, but not in either the average or median salary statistics. † Canadian salaries expressed in U.S. dollars. ‡ Salary data are not published when fewer than four individuals are involved. § See Footnotes. 64 TABLE 35: FILLED POSITIONS AVERAGE, MEDIAN, BEGINNING PROFESSIONAL SALARIES AND AVERAGE YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ARL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL LIBRARIES, FY 2005-06* Filled Average Median Beginning Average Institution Positions Salary Salary Salary Yrs. Exp. Alabama 3 ‡ ‡ 35,000 16.3 Alberta 5 66,311 68,610 36,366 17.4 Arizona 16 58,226 53,398 41,688 21.3 Boston University 8 54,414 55,593 38,500 14.4 British Columbia 12 53,595 55,069 35,768 16.2 California, Davis 10 68,072 66,558 37,920 20.1 California, Irvine 2 ‡ ‡ 37,920 15.5 California, Los Angeles 17 66,956 64,332 37,920 15.2 California, San Diego 9 69,644 60,100 37,920 16.3 Case Western Reserve 10 58,167 62,647 35,000 24.5 Cincinnati 20 61,046 56,757 35,000 23.2 Columbia 9 55,400 52,034 47,500 15.4 Connecticut 13 70,790 68,386 50,897 16.2 Cornell 9 69,764 69,443 45,000 18.2 Dartmouth 9 52,046 51,349 37,000 15.9 Duke 20 54,227 54,349 36,850 16.4 Emory 11 55,385 51,838 37,000 21.3 Florida 15 53,641 54,497 40,000 18.6 Florida State 3 ‡ ‡ 34,000 18.7 George Washington 16 59,222 55,342 42,000 15.5 Georgetown 8 54,262 55,944 38,000 10.5 Harvard 22 65,437 62,009 43,000 11.5 Howard 7 50,145 47,769 35,049 20.6 Illinois, Chicago 20 57,895 52,994 40,000 15.3 Iowa 12 56,853 48,465 42,600 17.2 Johns Hopkins 28 62,208 55,221 32,800 14.1 Kansas 10 46,601 44,716 37,500 14.0 Kentucky 15 51,939 51,683 31,000 18.2 Louisiana State 2 ‡ ‡ 36,000 20.0 Louisville 7 51,613 49,289 32,808 21.9 McGill 8 51,616 51,205 32,646 15.3 McMaster 11 52,546 48,783 35,083 19.9 Manitoba 14 50,152 46,576 38,000 12.9 Miami 11 59,807 57,960 40,000 22.5 Michigan 15 54,690 51,036 36,000 14.9 Minnesota 11 59,938 56,950 32,500 12.3 Missouri 9 42,498 41,484 38,771 13.2 Montreal 10 51,007 50,583 35,000 19.1 Nebraska 11 56,569 50,470 36,750 16.8