35 ARL Annual Salary Survey 2015–2016 Table 17: Average Salaries of Professional Staff in ARL University Libraries by Position and Years of Experience, FY 2015–2016, Part 1: 0 to 19 Years of Experience 0–3 years 4–7 years 8–11 years 12–15 years 16–19 years Position Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Salary No. Director ..‡ 1 ..‡ 5 224,079 8 Associate Director ‡ 1 ‡ 2 112,903 21 114,047 28 123,382 47 Assistant Director ‡ 1 ‡ 5 82,463 8 105,535 18 104,173 19 Head, Branch 61,883 9 68,893 22 77,684 30 84,990 55 86,448 48 Administrative Specialist 59,907 58 64,808 60 68,375 84 76,097 49 79,100 62 Digital Specialist 58,527 183 63,947 212 68,120 252 73,233 207 79,183 153 Functional Specialist 52,741 166 58,038 193 62,576 195 67,194 153 72,503 121 Subject Specialist 55,822 157 60,328 193 65,925 283 71,462 205 75,154 164 Dept. Head, Acquisitions 58,369 4 62,018 9 76,643 10 80,627 20 84,593 13 Dept. Head, Research/ Reference/Information or Learning Commons ‡ 2 ‡ 3 74,557 22 86,596 17 87,394 21 Dept. Head, Cataloging ‡ 2 ‡ 11 73,483 16 76,943 19 83,629 14 Dept. Head, Circulation 52,830 6 64,470 13 76,444 15 71,836 13 80,946 12 Dept. Head, Rare Books/ Manuscripts/Special Collections ‡ 3 ‡ 4 83,254 12 88,271 12 91,937 17 Dept. Head, Library Technology ..91,473 6 88,187 11 92,060 23 98,064 18 Dept. Head, Other 69,547 21 68,902 38 73,017 87 80,940 85 85,868 77 Public Services 50,202 37 59,247 32 63,593 41 64,452 29 68,258 24 Technical Services 52,664 12 57,476 22 59,508 21 68,321 12 69,711 14 Research/Reference/ Instruction 52,523 120 58,629 145 63,168 125 71,134 89 74,658 72 Cataloger/Metadata Analysts 53,302 61 56,197 55 64,966 80 70,505 82 70,108 71 All Positions: 55,767 843 61,901 1,026 67,884 1,313 75,713 1,121 81,869 975 Years of experience reflect total professional experience. Excludes medical and law libraries. Canadian salaries are expressed in US dollars. See Table 41 for salaries of Canadian librarians expressed in Canadian dollars. ‡ 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. .No positions reported in this category.