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Salary Statistics for the University of Illinois Library School Alumni

In view of the fact that there is.at present much discussion.concerning Library s a W . it mav be timely to publish the following tables which were compiled from quemonnjunn sent' 0 The fo^erstudenis of the School during the summer of 1923. Three hundred and t**nty! three answers were received out of a possible 433 who are at present in active work. Similar statistics have been made up before bv the School and a comparison of them revealed the facts that the average increase for each three-year period of the lar„ ,u receiving the same salary has been three hundred dollars and that the number receiving more than this amount has increased for each period. 228 replies; 19% received $1200; 28% more and 53% leu. 1917 1920 280 replies; 15% received $1500; 40% more and 45% fen, !923 ] . [..... 323 replies; 20% received $1800; 50% more and 30% fen. In Table No. 1 an effort has been made to show how many people are receiving the same salary and also to show whether or not the second year gives any salary advantage. Since 22 women who have had two years receive $2500 and over, and only 5 women who have had one year receive that much, it would seem that the second year docs carry some weight. This does not seem to be true in the case of the men, as seven is the total in each case. The general conclusion in regard to the men students is that the average man will receive than a woman whether he has had one year or two. In Table no. 2 the fact that the salary of Department Heads and Assistant Librarians seems to be more than for the Librarian is easily accounted for. These positions are fov only in large libraries, whereas the salary for the librarian in the small library lowen the average for that position. In spite of the fact that cataloging is supposed to be unpopuk

TABLE NO. 1

General salary statistics

SALARY Two YEAR COURSE ONE YEAR COURSE

Men $5000+ 4000 3600 3400 3300 3200 3000 2800 2700 2600 * 2500 2400 2300 2200 2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 Total no. of Persons Average

Women

Men

Women 1 2

Total 2 2 5 1 3 4 5 4 6 4 8 21 17 14 15 33 17 62 18 32 20 10 9 4 3 1 • 3

*

2

• |

2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2 3 3 3 2 4 5 13 15 10 7 19 7 28 7 9 7 3 4 1 1 155 $2265 10

1

2 6 2 3 8 12 9 33 11 21

1 2

lW

.

W

A

#

i |

\»**s*

v mm

7 5 4 2 1 2 144

14

323 |

Salar?

1 $2850

$2880

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