"The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2008-2009, which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2008-2009. Data are reported for 10,148 professional staff in the 113 university ARL libraries and for 3,748 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries.

The 2008-2009 data show that ARL librarians' salaries did not keep pace with inflation. The combined median professional salary in US and Canadian ARL university libraries was $64,823--a 3.8% increase from the previous year. Over the same period, the Consumer Price Index rose 5.6% in the US and 3.4% in Canada."