SLA’s 2003 Salary Survey
This month’s “Information Outlook,” the magazine of the Special Libraries Association, reports on the 2003 Salary Survey in an article restricted to organization members. The median for Americans is $57,000 and the mean is $61,522. The 2002 survey found the mean to be $56,500 and the median to be $60,583. Recent salary surveys are also available online.
Many librarians aren’t going to believe that salaries are reported to be that high.
Please note that the survey is of association members, which means most of the respondants do not work in public, school, or academic libraries. Special librarians often earn more than their counterparts at those institutions. Special libraries are corporate, law, news, broadcast, medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, and other libraries with special collections or libraries that serve a specific population with atypical information needs, etc., etc.
