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Where do you live so I can get one of those sweet jobs? Jeez, the Dean of the University Libraries in University Of Southern California pulls down $250,000, bu
by huxley 15y ago
Where do you live so I can get one of those sweet jobs?
Jeez, the Dean of the University Libraries in University Of Southern California pulls down $250,000, but you do know that isn't really a common thing?
Median salary for librarians is about $50,000, which isn't bad but not "retire on $250K for life".
- MaysonL 15y agoUniversity of Southern California (USC) is a private university.
- huxley 14y agoFair enough but my point was that if there are librarians that make $250,000 it is because they are at the highest level of administration over a library system, not the librarians that you meet at a reference desk. As eli_gottlieb pointed out, many librarian positions are unpaid so the $50K figure may significantly overestimate the salary of a librarian if volunteer ones are not counted.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoI don't know if that number is accurate. Many librarian positions are unpaid nowadays...
- meej 14y agoI completed an MSLIS degree in 2008. My classmates who were bound for traditional library careers used to joke that the only masters-level degree that pays less after graduation is Social Work. The WSJ published a sortable table of unemployment and salaries by degree late last year. Library Science graduates currently face an unemployment rate of 15% in the field (4th highest, out of 173 degrees) and salaries that rank in the bottom 5 amongst all degrees. http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NILF1111/#term= http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NILF1111/#term=
- smackfu 14y agoAnd "librarian" covers a whole lot of ground. Here is the UConn list of job families: http://www.hr.uconn.edu/employment_services/ucpea_salary.html http://www.hr.uconn.edu/employment_services/ucpea_salary.htm... A person you or I would call a librarian can be classed anywhere from UCP V to UCP X, which covers a salary range of $40k to $110k.