You are safe on your chair Richard - I'm in Edinburgh
although the price of living up here is catching up
with the big smoke (I'm trying to buy a house/shed and
its quite scary!).
Maria
--- Richard Bailey
<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What
would be interesting would be to see how
> librarians got payed in
> each region compared to certain other occupations
> (customer service
> advisors, personal assistants, accountants,
> whatever). That would give
> some idea of relativity.
>
> When I left uni in 1995 I took a library assistant's
> post in Dumfries
> for way less than 10k, and a librarian in that area
> with a modest sized
> library and handful of staff could only expect about
> 12-14k. Salaries
> down here in London are higher, and in sectors like
> financial and legal,
> *much* higher (the reason I moved, shallow but
> true). Living costs are
> also higher, but my quality of life has improved
> substantially, so I
> know that's not proportionate.
>
> I found Maria's email quite shocking, and it's
> served me a healthy
> reminder of the north/south divide (or is that
> London/everywhere
> divide). There are just *so* many more jobs down
> here, even with the
> post-9/11 layoffs (and there were a lot in law
> firms) there isn't that
> same sense of *panic*, because one visit to an
> agency and you're back in
> employment (may not necessarily be exactly what you
> want, but it's
> information work).
>
> (This is where Maria tells me she works in London,
> and I fall off my
> chair).
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> >>> Maria Gunn <[log in to unmask]> 20/06/02
> 13:12:51 >>>
> Not wanting to name names but I'm an Information
> Services Officer for a large law firm and don't earn
> as much as 16K.
>
> I did a salary survey of about 20 companies a couple
> of years ago and the range of salaries was quite
> interesting, the level they went down to was rather
> alarming. At that time there were jobs demanding a
> degree and paying under 10K.
>
> Maria
>
> --- "Kimber, CE (Catherine)" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote: > I think librarians were about 12th in the
> Guardian
> > table of esteemed
> > professions - pretty good I thought.
> >
> > Pay varies widely across different sectors - I
> think
> > CILIP publishes rates
> > by sector. Someone in a previous message was
> > complaining about 16k a year,
> > but I think a lot of NHS and school librarians
> would
> > consider that riches
> > beyond compare, certainly where I used to work in
> > the North East.
> >
> > Catherine
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Bailey
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 June, 2002 9:57 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Consumed Again!
> >
> >
> > Subtle point, but the comparison was not actual
> > salaries, rather the
> > relative "worthiness" of the professions in the
> > public perception (which
> > I can't help but agree with having worked in a
> > library supporting
> > student and practicing nurses).
> >
> > Interesting to see that the D and E rates cover
> the
> > £15-20K bracket.
> > Does anyone know off the cuff what the "average
> > trained librarian"
> > salary is for the UK?
> >
> > Richard
>
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