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Career Overview

The right career can provide years of enjoyment, challenge and personal enrichment. Libraries offer an incredible range of opportunities to "make a living making a difference."

• Salary Information
  The ALA-APA: the Organization for the Advancement of Library Employees advocates to improve the salaries and status of librarians and other library workers.
  • Library Salary Database (trial database now available) 
    Includes data from both the Librarian and Non-MLS Salaries – Public and Academic.  The Non-MLS data is for 62 positions from 836 public and academic libraries. The Librarian data is for positions from 1,053 public and academic libraries. See Caveats and Response Rates. The Salary Surveys are a project of the ALA-APA and the American Library Association Office for Research and Statistics.
  • Description of the Library Salary Surveys
    http://www.ala-apa.org/salaries/alaapasurveys.html
  • Other Library Salary Surveys
    http://www.ala-apa.org/salaries/librarysurveys.html
    
    
• Labor Trends & Statistics
  Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO,  publishes a Library Workers Fact Sheet with trends and salary data.
  
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Librarians - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068.htm
  • Library Technicians - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos113.htm
  • Library Assistants, Clerical - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos147.htm