Salaries for Australian librarians and library technicians 2007-2008

Contemporary salary standards for Australian library workers have been strongly influenced by major judicial inquiry and the Full Bench test case in the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission. Through these important pay equity initiatives, changes in work-value experienced by library workers were fully-assessed in current work-value terms for the first time. As a result, pay levels for library workers have improved considerably. These developments, of course, have not yet extended to all states and industrial jurisdictions.

ALIA, however, strongly endorses the standards as the proper and most accurate benchmark for library workers everywhere. We publish them here as a framework for fair pay in today's Australia. Levels applying at 1 July 2007, together with role statements associated with them, are set out in the pages that follow.

Defined roles and pay levels are set out in Section 1.

Casual employment is discussed in Section 2.

Teacher-librarian rates of pay are set out in Section 3.