What's an MLIS Worth?, Part II

TABLE 1 STATUS OF 2006 GRADUATES IN LIBRARY PROFESSIONS*

	Number of Schools Reporting	Number of Graduates Responding	Permanent Professional	Temporary Professional	Non-professional	Total	Graduates Outside of Profession	Unemployed or Status Unreported
Northeast	13	580	346	46	72	464	56	60
Southeast	11	331	250	17	20	287	26	18
Midwest	11	566	368	46	43	457	46	63
Southwest	4	211	148	19	10	177	21	13
West	4	229	127	26	29	182	25	22
Canada	2	38	28	7		35	1	2
TOTAL	45	1992	1285	163	180	1628	181	183
*Table based on survey responses from schools and individual graduates. Figures will not necessarily be fully consistent with some of the other data reported. Tables do not always add up, individually or collectively, since both schools and individuals omitted data in some cases.

TABLE 2 PLACEMENTS & FULL-TIME SALARIES OF 2006 GRADUATES/SUMMARY BY REGION*

		Total	Salaries		Low Salary		High Salary		Average Salary			Median Salary
Region	Number of Placements	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	All	Women	Men	All
Northeast	359	259	72	331	$12,000	$11,000	$100,000	$110,000	$40,566	$44,044	$41,277	$40,000	$41,000	$40,000
Southeast	330	239	73	312	16,600	20,000	74,000	65,000	37,842	39,453	38,159	37,000	38,000	37,300
Midwest	336	187	61	248	15,000	20,000	80,000	85,000	38,638	44,593	38,465	38,500	41,000	38,500
Southwest	171	120	32	152	19,000	26,000	63,000	80,000	39,793	40,587	39,911	40,000	40,000	40,000
West	210	152	34	186	23,956	28,000	120,000	85,000	47,921	49,642	48,236	45,624	46,500	45,824
Canada/Intl.*	46	33	12	45	20,000	15,248	74,000	61,248	43,542	43,126	43,321	43,000	46,269	43,000
COMBINED	1485	1042	288	1346	12,000	11,000	120,000	110,000	40,566	43,194	41,040	39,512	41,000	40,000
*All international salaries converted to American dollars based on conversion rates for August 21, 2007. This table represents only salaries reported as full-time. Some data were reported as aggregate without breakdown by gender or region. Comparison with other tables will show different numbers of placements.

TABLE 3 STATUS OF 2006 GRADUATES IN LIBRARY PROFESSIONS**

	Graduates			Employed			Unemployed			Students
Schools	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men	Total
Alabama	68	17	85	9	1	10	2	1	3
Albany	71	31	102	17	6	24				1		1
British Columbia	52	16	68	19	2	21					1	1
Buffalo*	50	8	59	47	7	55	3		3		1	1
Catholic	66	17	83	18	5	23	1		1
Clarion	107	20	127	36	5	41	2		2	1		1
Dalhousie*	10	5	15	10	5	15
Dominican*	14	6	20	8	6	14	2		2
Drexel	99	25	124	20	5	25
Emporia*	18	1	19	18	1	19
Florida State	147	65	212	13	6	19
Hawaii	42	10	52	14	4	18		1	1
Illinois	132	47	179	61	19	80	6	1	7	1		1
Indiana	193	47	240	60	10	70	1		1
Iowa*			14			13			1
Kent State	235	54	289	55	17	72	2		2
Kentucky	93	20	113	25	8	33	1	1	2	1		1
Long Island	135	32	167	47	5	52
Louisiana State	58	6	64	20	1	22
Michigan*	37	24	64	33	24	58				4		6
Missouri-Columbia	79	20	99	5		5
N.C. Central	48	12	60	16	5	21
N.C. Chapel Hill*	22	5	27	19	4	23	2		2
N.C. Greensboro	49	24	73	34	16	50	2		2
North Texas	297	49	346	95	25	122	5		5		1	1
Oklahoma	36	8	44	11	3	14
Pittsburgh	189	140	329	42	10	52
Pratt*	1		1				1		1
Rhode Island	40	12	52	10	6	16	1		1
Rutgers	123	30	153	30	10	40
San Jose	327	110	437	130	27	157	9	1	10	1		1
Simmons*	170	33	205	134	25	160	36	8	45
South Carolina	192	26	218	19	4	23
South Florida	159	28	187	46	12	58
Southern Connecticut	115	17	132	31	5	36	2	1	3
St. John's*	8	2	10	8	2	10
Syracuse*	6	6	12	6	4	10
Tennessee*	23	7	30	21	7	28	2		2
Texas (Austin)	68	22	90	29	6	35
Texas Woman's	160	11	171	25	2	27
UCLA	57	21	78	8	2	10
Washington	75	32	107	16	5	21		2	2
Wayne State	171	41	212	78	17	97	4		4		2	2
Wisconsin (Madison)	60	17	77	48	13	61	3		3	1	1	2
Wisconsin (Milwaukee)	84	25	109	12	5	17	2		2
TOTAL	4186	1149	5355	1423	361	1807	90	16	107	12	6	18
*For schools that did not fill out the institutional survey, data were taken from graduate surveys, thus there is not full representation of their graduating classes. **Tables do not always add up, individually or collectively, since both schools and individuals omitted data in some cases.This table represents placements of any kind. Comparison with other tables will show different numbers of placements. ***Unknown status: 2,681 women, 775 men, with a total of 3,456

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