ALA Librarian Salary Survey 2008

Mean librarian salary increaded 2 percent to $58,960 in 2008, according to the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian - Public and Academic.  Published by the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) in cooperation with the ALA Office for Research and Statistics, the survey shows aggregated data from more than 16,259 individual salaries of ALA MLS librarians. The six librarian positions are directors/dean, associate/assistant director, department head, manager of support staff, librarians who do not supervise and beginning librarians. [RJ]