Category Archives: Salaries

Equal Pay Day April 17, 2012

This article is from the April 2012 issue.

The next Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 17, 2012. This date symbolizes how far into 2012 women must work to earn what men earned in 2011. Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay. The wage gap is even greater … Read the rest

Texas A&M University Libraries announce salary increase for Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program graduates

This article is from the February 2012 issue.

Texas A&M University Libraries announced that they will award up to a 4 percent salary increase to any library support staff members who complete the Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program.  Employees must show the relevancy of LSSC to their job and must receive advance approval. 

Texas A&M’s Charles Gilreath, interim dean of libraries, said, “We have been waiting for this opportunity for some time.  Texas A&M University regulation allows skill enhancement pay for many of our employees, but until now, we did … Read the rest

“App” the Gap: “Equal Pay App Challenge” to Help Close the Gender Pay Gap

This article is from the February 2012 issue.

Work in Progress, the official blog of the U.S. Department of Labor, announces the launch of The Equal Pay App Challenge, a national competition “to develop software applications, or ‘apps,’ that leverage public data to promote equal pay for men and women.” The competition is co-administered by the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force,

According to Work in Progress, competitive entries will increase access to pay data; provide interactive tools that can facilitate early career coaching; provide … Read the rest

ALA issues RFP for national salary survey

This article is from the September 2011 issue.

CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals to conduct a national Web-based salary survey for the 2012 edition of the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian – Public and Academic. The survey is sent to directors and human resources staff in a random sample of both public and academic libraries.

The contractor will be responsible for distributing the survey to the sample in early 2012, collecting and analyzing the data and preparing the data for print and database use. The … Read the rest

Minimum Salary for Library Employees and State Library Salary Data Updated

This article is from the March 2011 issue.

CHICAGO – The updated minimum salary for librarians should be $42,485/yr and for all staff $13.81/hr, based on American Library Association-Allied Professional Association resolutions passed in 2007 and 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator. These figures are updated annually by ALA-APA. Thanks to a partnership with the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO in Washington, DC, the Directory of State Libraries that collect salary data has also been updated. The 2-page document, … Read the rest

American Association of University Women Gives Thanks For New, Equal Opportunities

This article is from the December 2010 issue.

President John F. Kennedy once said, “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” With that in mind, the American Association of University Women would like to pause this Thanksgiving to give thanks for the many wonderful opportunities and advancements for women and girls during 2010. Here are just a handful of them:

We’re thankful for the increased number of female ambassadors to the United … Read the rest

Salary Survey: 2010 Librarian Pay Up 3 Percent Despite Economic Woes

This article is from the November 2010 issue.

By Jenifer Grady

How can the American Library Association (ALA) and ALA-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) report that librarian salaries rose three percent in 2010 when librarians are losing jobs; salaries are stagnant; hours are being cut; and new librarians are struggling to find positions? Despite the conditions faced by some individual librarians and libraries in 2010, the aggregate of 11,554 salaries reported by directors and human resources (HR) staff from public and academic libraries calculated to a mean librarian salary … Read the rest

Wage Gap Remains Static

This article is from the October 2010 issue.

Census statistics released September 16, 2010, show that the women still earn 77 percent of what men earn, based on the median earnings of full-time, year-round workers in 2009. Both men’s and women’s earnings showed slight increases from 2008 to 2009, with men’s at $47,127 and women’s at $36,278, a difference of $10,849.

Median earnings for most women of color are even lower. In 2009, the earnings of African American were $31,824, 67.5 percent of all men’s earnings (a slight … Read the rest

Survey: Over Half of North American Academic Libraries Saw Salary, Benefit Declines

This article is from the September 2010 issue.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition” report to their offering.

The report presents more than 245 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of academic library issues including: spending on books, ebooks, journals, databases and other content vehicles; hiring plans and trends in salaries and benefits; subject specific and overall academic library investment plans in content and trends in the capital budget; data on the use of laptops in … Read the rest

British Women Win World’s Biggest Discrimination Case:

This article is from the May 2010 issue.

British Council Faces $1 Billion Equal Pay Bill

Up to 5000 women on April 27, 2010, learned that they have won their claims for equal pay against the Council based on bonus payments which allowed male employees to earn in excess of £50,000 per year.

The women, many of whom were represented by Stefan Cross Solicitors Limited, had submitted claims against their employer in respect of their jobs which included Cleaners, Cooks and Care Assistants and the Employment Tribunal … Read the rest