statistics and such
A recent post to the NewGrads’ elist highlights a career overview of librarians, on Australian Jobsearch. Interesting to note is that average salary is around $1,000/week (which seems high based on most of the librarians I know). While job prospects are average, unemployment remains low. It’s a female dominated industry at 78% of the workforce; 67% of employees are fulltime. NSW has the biggest share of librarians, followed by, in order: VIC, QLD, WA, SA, ACT, TAS, NT. Information in the Jobsearch overview is based on data from ABS.