Salary of new chief of Multnomah County library startling

Yet another good find from The Resource Shelf.

Oregon Live Reports on the new director at Multnomah County Public. Molly Raphael will be making $138,000 a year — a move that will make her the county’s highest paid department director when she begins work in November.

By comparison, Raphael will make $33,000 more annually than her predecessor, Ginnie Cooper, and $25,000 more than the person running the Human Services department.


Raphael, now the top librarian in Washington, D.C., and earning $121,000 a year, also will make more than Portland’s chief administrative officer, who oversees a budget nearly four times that of the library and has 100 more employees. Only Portland Police Chief Mark Kroeker and four other county officials will make more than Raphael as top local government administrators.

August 10, 2003 by Librarians Libraries

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3 Responses

  1. donwarnersaklad says:
    August 10, 2003 at 10:18 pm

    146,512 Boston Public Library President
    The Director of Boston Public Library is the President Fiscal Year 2004 budget 146,312
    http://www.cityofboston.gov/budget/pdfs/02_Chief_O perating_Officer_Cabinet.pdf
    http://www.cityofboston.gov/budget/

  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    August 12, 2003 at 1:28 am

    a ?
    Do people really need to make more than $100K a year?

    Especially when their workers can qualify for food stamps?

    — Ender, Duke_of_URL
    ˇ

  3. bibliothecarius says:
    August 12, 2003 at 2:47 am

    Re:a ?
    Perhaps this will establish a positive trend in the library world.

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