2000 SLA Salary Survey
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• 2000 Basic Annual Salaries
• Survey Administration
• Organization of the 2000 Report
• Summary of Contents
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Basic Data
|
Salary |
Percent Change | |||||||
|
10th Percentile |
First Quartile 25% |
Median 50% |
Third Quartile 75% |
90th Percentile |
Number |
Mean |
Mean Percent Change 1999-2000 | |
| Canada | 40,000 | 45,000 | 54,000 | 65,000 | 73,207 | 340 | 56,808 | 4.2% |
| United States | 35,000 | 42,000 | 51,073 | 65,000 | 81,390 | 2,124 | 55,806 | 5.9% |
• As the table above shows, the mean increase in salaries from 1999 to 2000 was 4.2% for Canadian respondents and 5.9% for U.S. respondents.
• The median increase in salary for special librarians was 3.8% in Canada and 4.0% in the United States.
• Both mean and median salary increases in Canada and the United States gained relative to the inflation rate (3.5% in Canada, 3.1% in the U.S.) between April 1999 and April 2000.
• The salary figures above are based on the annual earnings for full-time workers, not including overtime earnings, bonuses, benefits and deferred compensation.
Survey Administration In early April, 2000 SLA mailed questionnaires to a random sample of approximately 50% of the U.S. membership and to all of the regular and associate Canadian members, a total of 6200 surveys. A second mailing was sent in June reminding respondents who had not completed the survey of its importance. Simultaneously, SLA posted a similar reminder on all SLA discussion lists. Members returned a total of 2718 surveys to Association Research, Inc. (ARI). After eliminating 128 surveys returned for incorrect addresses, the completion rate for the 2000 salary survey is 45.8%.
Organization of the 2000 Salary Survey Report The 2000 salary survey report has been reorganized so that information likely to be of use to a single user is more likely to be grouped together. Specific changes are as follows: • Data on the United States and Canada has been separated so that all tables relevant to each country are now grouped together. Chapters one through five include Canadian data, while chapters six through ten are U.S. data.
• Each chapter now represents the data for a specific job description. See the Summary of Contents below for a listing of the job descriptions covered by a full chapter.
• 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 is that which relates to the particular job held by the respondent.
Summary of Contents
| Chapters | |||
| Canada | |||
| Chapter One: | All Canadian Respondents | ||
| Chapter Two: | Primary Responsibility - Administrative/Management | ||
| Chapter Three: | Primary Responsibility - Reference | ||
| Chapter Four: | Primary Responsibility - General Responsibilities | ||
| Chapter Five: | Primary Responsibility - Technical Services | ||
| United States | |||
| Chapter Six: | All United States Respondents | ||
| Chapter Seven: | Primary Responsibility - Administrative/Management | ||
| Chapter Eight: | Primary Responsibility - Reference | ||
| Chapter Nine: | Primary Responsibility - General Responsibilities | ||
| Chapter Ten: | Primary Responsibility - Technical Services | ||
| Tables within Each Chapter | ||
| Demographic Data | ||
| Table 1 - Salary Distribution by Census Division | ||
| Table 2 - Salary Distribution by Metropolitan Areas | ||
| Table 3 - Salary Distribution by Subject Degree Field | ||
| Table 4 - Salary Distribution by Library/Information Science Degree | ||
| Table 5 - Salary Distribution by Degree Held | ||
| Table 6 - Salary Distribution by Years of Library Experience | ||
| Table 7 - Salary Distribution by Years of Total Work Experience | ||
| Table 8 - Salary Distribution by Gender | ||
| Table 9 - Salary Distribution by Ethnicity/Race | ||
| Institutional Data | ||
| Table 10 - Salary Distribution by Number of Employee | ||
| Table 11 - Salary Distribution by Non-profit Status | ||
| Table 12 - Salary Distribution by Business Sector | ||
| Table 13 - Salary Distribution by Institution/Industry | ||
| Table 14 - Salary Distribution by Union v. Non-union | ||
| Job-specific Data | ||
| Table 15 - Salary Distribution by Number of Years with Present Employer | ||
| Table 16 - Salary Distribution by Number of Employees Supervised or Managed | ||
| Table 17 - Salary Distribution by Primary Job Responsibility | ||
| Table 18 - Salary Distribution by Primary Job Title | ||
| Table 19 - Salary Distribution by Library or Information Resource Center Setting | ||
| Table 20 - Salary Distribution by Library/Information Center Annual Budget | ||
| Table 21 - Salary Distribution by Full-time Equivalent Employees in Library/Information Center | ||
| Table 22 - Number and Percentage of Employees by Type of Benefits Provided by Institution Group | ||
| Table 23 - Salary Distribution by Self-Employed Status | ||
| Table 24 - Salary Distribution by Contract Basis at Primary Job | ||
| Table 25 - Salary Distribution by Number of Part-time Jobs Held | ||
| Table 26 - Salary Distribution by Number of Part-time Hours Worked per Week | ||
| Table 27 - Salary Distribution by Reasons for Working Part-time | ||
| Table 28 - Average Hourly Rate for Part-time Employees by Census Division | ||
Also available are Executive Summaries of SLA's annual salary surveys for earlier years included in the Salary Surveys Information Portal.
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