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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''DLF WG on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives and Museums: Valuing Labor Subgroup'''<br />
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Meeting minutes: July 1, 2019<br />
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'''''Salaries'''''<br />
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Facilitator: Liz Caringola<br />
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Note-takers: Liz Caringola, Sandy Rodriguez<br />
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[https://wiki.diglib.org/Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls Complete 2019 schedule]<br />
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== Discussion ==<br />
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Arts + All Museums Salary Transparency 2019<br />
* [https://www.inquirer.com/news/art-museum-salaries-transparency-spreadsheet-20190618.html (background information from The Philadelphia Inquirer)]<br />
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[https://dpeaflcio.org/programs-publications/issue-fact-sheets/library-workers-facts-figures/ DPE AFL-CIO Library Professionals: Facts & Figures] (see section “Library Worker Earnings and the Wage Gap”)<br />
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Living wage<br />
* [http://livingwage.mit.edu/ MIT Living Wage Calculator]<br />
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Researching public salaries<br />
* For California: [https://www.sacbee.com/news/databases/state-pay/article229468549.html Sacramento Bee Salary Database]<br />
* [https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/ University of California salary database] (search Librarian, not Archivist)<br />
* [https://salaryguide.dbknews.com/ UMD salary database] (search “LIBR” to just see salaries in the Libraries)<br />
* [https://www.utah.gov/transparency/ For Utah] (state and local government entities)<br />
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Researching private salaries<br />
* [https://trust.guidestar.org/topic/guidestar-nonprofit-compensation-report Guidestar]: publishes salary information for non-profit institutions<br />
* [https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm Glassdoor]<br />
* Perhaps it is even more important for workers at private institutions to self-report in the surveys below?<br />
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Salary surveys<br />
* [https://publications.arl.org/ARL-Annual-Salary-Survey-2017-2018/ ARL Annual Salary Survey]<br />
* [https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/WArS-SAA-Salary-Survey-Report.pdf 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey]<br />
* Library Salaries Inequity Resource List (features self-reported salaries under “Voluntary Payscale Information”)<br />
* [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RRCLTSN AMIA Field Survey] (currently underway and focused on moving image archives) <br />
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_cn3afoas7NhKvHWaFKqQGkaZS5rvL6DFxzGqXQa6o/edit#gid=0 Arts + All Museums Salary Transparency 2019_View Only] (includes art museums, historical societies, etc.) - feel free to request edit access from the owner & add your salary, if applicable; there’s also valuable info in the tabs<br />
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Additional topics discussed<br />
* Individual negotiation vs. collective negotiation<br />
** For individual<br />
*** [https://salary.aauw.org/ AAUW Salary Negotiation Programs]<br />
*** Counter offer as expedited promotion<br />
*** Other things to negotiate besides salaries (i.e. moving expenses, more vacation time, professional development funding)<br />
* Cost of living<br />
** Is it strategic disadvantage for long-term salary growth to take a lower paying job even if somewhere with a lower cost of living?<br />
** Wages are not keeping pace with the extremely high cost of living in cities like San Francisco and New York<br />
* Compression<br />
** Definition: “Compression is when you have small differences in pay regardless of experience, skills, level, or seniority. You see this when the starting salaries for your new employees in a particular job title are too close to the wages of your existing workers. In really awful circumstances, the starting salaries might even exceed what your current employees are earning.” ([https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2011/07/pay-compression –PayScale])<br />
* Equity <br />
* Ranking/classifications<br />
** Do not always correspond to salary differences<br />
* Raises including merit and cost-of-living increases<br />
** Eligibility difference with contract workers (i.e. term limited workers not qualifying for cost-of-living increases)<br />
* Who in institution oversees salary issues<br />
** Budget Committees<br />
** Unions<br />
** HR (sometimes impose constraints that are out of the control of hiring managers)<br />
* Types of arguments for collective approaches:<br />
** Compression<br />
** Compare to peer institutions (i.e. based on salary surveys)<br />
** Compare to comparable positions within the institution<br />
** Recruitment (making salaries competitive to help bring on new staff)<br />
** Reducing pay inequality<br />
** Reducing turnover/attrition<br />
** Within broader diversity/equity/inclusion iniatives<br />
* Strategies for collective approaches:<br />
** Professional organizations advocating on behalf of workers<br />
*** Requiring salaries on job postings<br />
**** [https://www.change.org/p/american-library-association-joblist-ala-joblist-ala-joblist-must-require-employers-to-post-their-salary-band Petition: ALA Joblist must require employers to post job salaries]<br />
**** [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Best-Practices-for-Job-Postings.pdf Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings]<br />
**** [https://www.southwestarchivists.org/archival-pay-and-saa-some-modest-proposals/ Article on Society of Southwest Archivists blog re: proposals for SAA]<br />
**** [https://nationalempnetwork.org/salary-range-on-museum-job-postings-letter-writing-campaign/ National Emerging Museum Professionals Network, Salary Range on Museum Job Postings Letter Writing Campaign]<br />
** Advocacy Toolkits (discussed at Collective Responsibility forum)<br />
** Make visible and put in writing salary rules/processes within one’s own institution for greater transparency</div>Adw