52 US ARL University Libraries Table 28: Average Salaries of Professional Staff in US 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 ......210,103 4 232,969 7 Associate Director ‡ 1 ‡ 2 113,154 17 113,289 23 124,766 43 Assistant Director ‡ 1 ‡ 5 83,198 6 105,128 17 105,351 17 Head, Branch 61,883 9 67,712 21 76,655 26 83,269 45 84,551 40 Administrative Specialist 59,279 51 64,826 48 68,489 68 77,195 44 79,176 52 Digital Specialist 58,483 167 63,591 186 67,438 230 73,203 189 79,412 139 Functional Specialist 52,583 153 57,790 188 61,761 186 66,266 143 72,067 116 Subject Specialist 56,319 129 60,035 163 64,774 248 69,973 175 73,466 146 Dept. Head, Acquisitions ‡ 2 60,021 7 76,391 9 78,711 19 78,543 11 Dept. Head, Research/ Reference/Information or Learning Commons ‡ 2 ‡ 2 71,840 17 86,071 13 87,394 21 Dept. Head, Cataloging ‡ 1 ‡ 10 71,322 14 76,943 19 83,629 14 Dept. Head, Circulation 53,479 5 58,887 9 79,876 12 71,836 13 80,946 12 Dept. Head, Rare Books/ Manuscripts/Special Collections ‡ 3 ‡ 3 75,548 8 87,234 11 90,953 15 Dept. Head, Library Technology ..100,650 4 88,187 11 92,638 22 99,341 16 Dept. Head, Other 69,547 21 67,718 34 72,472 78 80,350 78 85,781 68 Public Services 49,741 31 56,104 23 60,540 31 61,823 25 63,192 19 Technical Services 51,975 10 56,344 18 56,306 18 63,483 8 69,618 11 Research/Reference/ Instruction 52,612 103 57,617 126 61,053 107 69,175 80 73,220 65 Cataloger/Metadata Analysts 52,958 58 55,870 49 64,881 77 68,816 74 69,351 66 All Positions: 55,797 747 61,244 898 66,765 1,163 74,739 1,002 81,254 878 Years of experience reflect total professional experience. Excludes Canadian libraries. See Table 41 for salaries of Canadian librarians expressed in Canadian dollars. Excludes medical and law libraries. ‡ 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.