Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010–2011 , which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in 125 ARL member libraries during 2010–2011. Data are reported for 10,037 professional staff in the 115 university ARL libraries and for 3,709 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries.

The median salary for US ARL university libraries in 2010 was $65,000, an increase of 1.5% over the 2009–2010 median salary of $64,069. This modest salary increase compared favorably to the severe economic contraction of the same period, when the US CPI rose just 1.2%. The experience of academic librarians in Canada was more favorable. While the Canadian CPI rose 1.8%, median salaries in Canadian university libraries increased 2.0%, from $80,654 to $82,251 (Canadian dollars).

The ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010–2011 analyzes salary data from a number of different perspectives, including race, ethnicity, and gender. Minority librarians make up 14.2% of the professional staff in US ARL university libraries; the percentage of minorities in managerial or administrative positions is lower. Women comprise 68.6% of minority staff members. Gender-based salary differentials persist in ARL libraries in 2010–2011. The overall salary for women in the 115 ARL university libraries is about 96% of that paid to men.

Other characteristics of ARL university libraries, such as size, public/private status, and location, are also significant determinants of salary. The current state of these indicators is outlined in the salary survey’s introduction and extensive tables.

Online access to the ARL Annual Salary Survey from 2005–2006 to the present is now available through ARL Digital Publications. Please visit http://publications.arl.org/ARL_Annual_Salary_Survey for additional information.

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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2010–2011
Martha Kyrillidou and Shaneka Morris, comps. and eds.
2011 * ISBN 1-59407-866-1 * 122 pages
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/ .

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