The gap in pay between male and female information professionals has closed to the point that the median salary of women information professionals is now higher than that of their male counterparts, according to a salary survey conducted by the Special Library Association.
In the SLA’s 1999 Salary Survey, female SLA members have a median salary figure of $49,550 compared to that of $48,672 for male SLA members. In Canada, the report says, the mean salaries paid to SLA members of both sexes come out to be $52,000.
The survey says the mean pay for men is slightly more ($53,440) than that for women ($52,730) in the United States, while the gap is just less than $500 ($55,646 for men and $55,149 for women) in Canada.
The SLA will release the entire salary survey in November.
Posted October 25, 1999.