Librarians' Salaries for 1994-1995 Reported

The ARL Annual Salary Survey 1994 represents the 25th year that salary
data were collected for ARL member libraries, and the 16th edition
compiled and analyzed by Gordon Fretwell, University of Massachusetts
and consultant to ARL. 

	In his introduction to this year's edition, Fretwell notes "the
purchasing power of nonuniversity staff at the median is slightly
reduced (3/4 of 1%) from what it was ten years prior, while the typical
beginning professional salary has gained 18.1% in purchasing power
during the same decade.  This trend inevitably results in salary
compression problems that adversely impact the mid-career and senior
staff.  University library salaries have generally made more progress
than salaries in the nonuniversity libraries.  The current purchasing
power of staff at the median has increased 10.2%."

	The median salary in ARL nonuniversity libraries is $48,000; in
university libraries, it is $41,000.  Figures for 1994-95 average
salaries and years of experience in university libraries are reported in
the accompanying table. 

	Minority librarians in 95 U.S.  university libraries (including
law and medical) now number 841, an increase from 830 in 1993-94, and
account for 11.3% of ARL's U.S.  library professionals.  Minority staff
are disproportionately distributed across the country, with minority
librarians underrepresented in the New England, West North Central, East
South Central, West South Central, and Mountain regions and
overrepresented in the Middle Atlantic, East North Central, South
Atlantic, and Pacific regions.  The salary differential separating
average minority salaries from the average salaries of their Caucasian
counterparts is $1,969, or about 4.5% lower for minority staff.  This
change is an improvement of almost a percent point compared to last
year's 5.6% difference. 

	The salary differential between women and men librarians is
smaller at the director's level for all three types of libraries (main,
medical, and law).  The difference in salaries between men and women
library directors in 3.3% The difference for all professional positions
is 8.3%. 

	The ARL Annual Salary Survey is available from ARL Publications
for $25.00 for member libraries and $65.00 for nonmembers (plus $5.00
shipping and handling per publication).  

- Martha Kyrillidou


ARL University Librarians*
			
				Combined	Men		Women

Average salary			$43,966		$46,189		$42,659

Average years 			16.0		16.5		15.7
of experience	

Total number of 		6,920		2,562		4,358
filled positions

Minority librarians'		$41,997		$44,485		$41,008
average salary	
	
Total number of 		724		206		518
minority librarians	

Average director		$104,832	$106,118	$102,689
 salary

Total number of 		104		65		39
directors

*does not include law or medical librarians

Source: ARL Annual Salary Survey 1994


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ARL 180
A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions
Association of Research Libraries
May 1995