Information Outlook, Vol 5, No. 11, November 2001
Are You Making What You're Worth?
Information professionals in both Canada and the United States are making more than they did in 2000. This and other salary news comes straight out of SLA's newly released 2001 Salary Survey.
2001 Mean and Median Salary Data
Information professionals in Canada saw a 2.4 percent increase in median income (the salary in the middle of the distribution), while their colleagues in the United States enjoyed a healthy median increase of 10.9. Canadian respondents in the same positions between April 1, 2000, and April 1, 2001, reported an average (or mean) percent change of 4.7 percent in earnings. The mean reported change for similar U.S. respondents was 6.6 percent.
The median pay for full-time information professionals in Canada as of April 1, 2001, was $55,344 and the average was $57,904 (Canadian salary data is reported in Canadian dollars). The U.S. median pay for full-time information professionals was $54,500 and the mean was $58,930. Results from the 2001 SLA data for Canada and the United States are presented separately.
The inflation rates for Canada were 3.6 percent, while the United States was slightly lower at 3.3 percent.
Survey Administration
2001 was the fifth straight year SLA conducted its salary survey. This was the fifteenth survey since 1967. In early April, 2001 SLA mailed questionnaires to a random sample of less than half of the U.S. membership and to all of the regular and associate Canadian members. This was a total of 4,745 surveys. Members returned 2,339 surveys to Association Research, Inc. (ARI). As in prior years, data from the 2001 salary survey was entered and tabulated by ARI to ensure respondent confidentiality.
After eliminating the 73 surveys returned for incorrect addresses, the completion rate for the 2001 salary survey was 50.1 percent.
Organization of the 2001 Salary Survey Report
Data about the United States and Canada is separated so that all tables relevant to each country are grouped together. Chapters one through five include Canadian data, while chapters six through ten are comprised of U.S. data.
The data within each chapter is divided into three sections: demographic, institutional, and job-specific. Demographic data relates to personal characteristics of the respondent, institutional data relates to characteristics of the respondent's employer, and job-specific data relates to the particular job held by the respondent.
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SLA's 131-page Salary Survey provides salary breakdowns by industry, geographic region, budget size, primary responsibility, job title, number of employees supervised, years of experience, and level of education, as well as summaries of historical median and average salary data.
Distribution of salaries for all Canadian and US respondents.
2001 Basic Annual Salaries: Canada and the United States
| Salary | Percent Change | |||||||
| 10th Percentile | First Quartile 25% | Median 50% | Third Quartile 75% | 90th Percentile | Number | Mean | Mean Percent Change | |
| All Canadian Respondents* |
42,000
|
47,000
|
55,344
|
65,000
|
77,325
|
334
|
57,904
|
4.7%
|
| All U.S. Respondents |
37,118
|
44,000
|
54,500
|
69,150
|
85,596
|
1,683
|
61,522
|
6.6%
|
*All salaries in Canadian tables are reported in Canadian dollars. The exchange rate on April 1, 2001 was $1.57 Canadian = $1 U.S.
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New features!
In addition to the data you've come to depend on, this year we've included more breakdowns by industry, size of library, title, responsibility and geographic region. The book also contains salary data on the dynamic and expanding responsibilities of special librarians.
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