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Effectively Using ARL Salary and Demographic Data

salary-survey-coverARL is now offering a series of four webcasts illustrating effective uses of data from the ARL Annual Salary Survey. The webcasts will address what data are available through ARL, how these data can be used locally to make a case for better salaries, how to develop equitable salary structures, and how to analyze demographic information and trends about aging and other characteristics.

The ARL Annual Salary Survey reports salaries for more than 12,000 professional positions in ARL member libraries on an annual basis. These data are used to determine whether salaries are competitive, equitable across institutions and personal characteristics, and keeping up with inflation. The survey also tracks minority representation in US ARL libraries and reports separate data for health sciences and law libraries.

The webcasts will be hosted by Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs.

Register now for Effectively Using ARL Salary and Demographic Data

Online registration is now open for this webcast series. The cost is $10 per webcast or $40 for all four.

Introduction to the ARL Salary Survey (video on YouTube)

Tuesday, March 5 
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern 
Presenters: 
Shaneka Morris, Statistics Editorial Assistant, ARL 
Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs 
This webcast will give an overview of the ARL Salary Survey, provide snapshots and examine trends in the data, and discuss recent changes to the survey.

Using ARL Salary Data to Make the Case for Higher Salaries (video on YouTube)

Tuesday, May 21 
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern 
Presenters: 
Arnold Hirshon, Associate Provost and University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University 
Carla Stoffle, Dean of Libraries, University of Arizona 
Jeffrey Trzeciak, University Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis 
How are ARL libraries using custom peer-group analysis to make a case for higher salaries at their institutions? Carla Stoffle has systematically used these data for a number of years and will share her experience. Arnold Hirshon and Jeffrey Trzeciak have used and augmented the data ARL provided to make a similar case at their institutions.

Case Study: Using ARL Salary Data to Establish and Maintain an Equitable Salary Structure for Faculty Librarians

Tuesday, September 10 
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern 
Presenters: 
Brian Keith, Associate Dean for Human & Financial Resources, University of Florida Libraries 
Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries, ARL 
Brian Keith will describe how the University of Florida Libraries used data from the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 ARL Salary Surveys to establish and implement a market-equity design with an internally and externally equitable salary structure for faculty librarians. Judy Ruttenberg will talk from the perspective of “Transforming Research Libraries” about how staff transformation relates to the future health of our organizations.

Analyzing Age and Race/Ethnicity Demographics

Tuesday, November 5 
1:00–2:00 p.m. eastern 
Presenters: 
Stanley Wilder, University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 
Mark Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs, ARL 
What are retirement trends in the profession? How are these trends affecting the racial and ethnic composition of the profession? What are the job categories with the highest growth and how are new entrants coming into the profession? These topics and more will be featured in this fourth and final webcast featuring data from the ARL Annual Salary Survey.

The webcasts will be recorded and made freely available on ARL’s YouTube channel shortly after each live event.


The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 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 https://www.arl.org/.

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