Shame on You, NYPL
Let me just add my voice to the other blogispherians who are booing the New York Public Library this week. In case you hadn’t heard, the top execs at the NYPL are making six-figure salaries…pretty significant ones, at that. In fact, the library’s president makes over $400, 000 a year. This does not include his housing allowance of $136, 000…an allowance that is moot since he owns his apartment in Manhattan. (His total compensation package brings the total to over $800,000.) Now, let’s look at the people who actually make the NYPL operate on a day-to-day basis…the librarians. NYPL librarians, according to this salary study, have the lowest starting salary of all major large library systems in the country. In fact, with cost of living adjustment taken into consideration, NYPL librarians just starting with the system, make just under $13,000 a year. No doubt, this would entitle these librarians to receive any number of welfare benefits. Librarians on welfare…not a good thing in my book. The board of the NYPL ought to consider giving its front-line staff some raises, instead of inflating the already over-inflated salaries of its top execs.
