The Library Salary Database (press release) from the American Library Association is an online database where you can find out what people earn in various library positions at various places in the country.
It seems like a good resource, but the ALA is charging quite a bit for access: $250 per year for non-members and $150 per year for members. Their “special deal” is $30 for one months access. I could understand a reasonable fee for access if you were a non-member, but I suspect that they have obtained these figures from surveys of their membership, and to charge this much for access seems excessive.
The book format of this costs quite a bit less than database access: between $63 and $100, depending on membership and whether you want MLS or non-MLS information. And why does the non-MLS book cost at least $30 more?
To the ALA: if you make this resource much more reasonably priced, perhaps making it a no-added-cost benefit for members (or perhaps even “in exchange for providing salary information”), you will find it a much more popular and respected resource. I don’t believe it will get wide use in its present form.
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