Maybe not salary "guidelines," but benchmarks!  It's done in higher
education by the AAUP et al.  And the benchmarks are valuable to
institutions that are government-run, non-profit or "just anything."

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> From: Andy Finch <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Role of AAM in salaries
> Date: Friday, July 18, 1997 1:29 PM
>
> >
> > So, if there are sister organizations like ALA producing such valuable
work
> > as these guidelines, what is keeping the AAM from being of use on what
is
> > clearly a crucial topic?
> >
> >
> Have to run, but for a brief, non-official response, I would guess that
> the very first thing keeping AAM from issuing salary guidelines, as ALA
> did, is that libraries for the most part are publicly funded, whereas
> museums aren't for the most part *anything.*
>
> Andy Finch
> AAM Government Affairs
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