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2005 Salary Survey Results
2005 Basic Annual Salaries:
Canada and the United States
| All Canadian Respondents* | All U.S. Respondents | |
| Salary | ||
10th Percentile |
43,000 | 39,860 |
First Quartile / 25% |
50,472 | 48,000 |
Median 50% |
60,000 | 60,000 |
Third Quartile / 75% |
72,000 | 78,525 |
90th Percentile |
84,600 | 98,760 |
Number |
267 | 2,245 |
Mean |
63,083 | 65,482 |
| Mean percentage change | 3.6% | 4.6% |
*All salaries in Canadian tables are reported in Canadian dollars. The exchange rate on April 1, 2005, was $1.21 Canadian = $1 U.S.
The 2005 SLA Salary Survey results show that the average salary increases for SLA members have outpaced inflation again, although by a lesser margin than last year. Based on salaries as of April 1, the mean percentage increase in salaries for 2005 over 2004 was 4.6% for U.S. based respondents. For the same 12 month period, the Consumer Price Index rose only 3.5%. For Canadian members, salaries were 3.6% higher on April 1, 2005 than a year earlier, while the CPI had only increased by 2.4%.
The average salary for US members who answered the survey was $65,482, compared with $63,151 in 2004, and for Canadian members Canadian $63,083 compared with Canadian $63,548. The apparent anomaly between salary amounts and percentage increases can be explained by the fact that the dollar amounts reflect the average salaries of the respondents to the 2004 and 2005 surveys, whereas the percentage increases reflect the percentage increases of the respondents of the 2005 survey over their salaries in 2004.
A workplace study based on an additional survey sent with the salary survey to members' HR departments will be published with the salary survey results. The workplace study enhances the SLA annual salary survey results with additional information about the benefits, trends in hiring and expenditure, and changes in job descriptions and competencies of information professionals.
More information on the survey results and workplace study is available in the November 2005 issue of the Information Management column in Information Outlook.
SLA Salary Calculator
SLA has developed the salary calculator as an online interactive tool to analyze salaries based on multiple characteristics, rather than two dimensional in the print version. The 2005 SLA Salary Calculator is available to purchasers of the 2005 salary survey only.
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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 Region/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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