ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021

This report analyzes salary data for professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during 2021. Data are reported for 10,751 professional staff from the 117 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 3,504 professional staff of the 8 US federal and public ARL libraries. In the Salary Survey, data for university library staff are usually reported in three distinct groups: general library systems, health sciences libraries, and law libraries.

Mian, Anam. ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.29242/salary.2021

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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021

Keyword(s): research libraries; salary data; salary trends; library professional staff
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This report analyzes salary data for professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during 2021. Data are reported for 10,751 professional staff from the 117 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 3,504 professional staff of the 8 US federal and public ARL libraries. In the Salary Survey, data for university library staff are usually reported in three distinct groups: general library systems, health sciences libraries, and law libraries.

Mian, Anam. ARL Annual Salary Survey 2021. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2023.