Effective immediately, LPC is updating our job board policy to require the inclusion of a salary or salary range on all job postings. This policy will also apply to jobs shared on our member listserv.
Rationale: This was a suggestion made during a community call on pay equity and precarity, which was part of a larger series of community calls on labor issues in fall of 2023. This change brings us into alignment with other organizations in our space that aggregate job postings, many of which require salary information. This change is part of a larger movement towards transparency in hiring. Including salary information in job listings allows job seekers to target their searches to jobs that meet their salary needs, and avoids putting them in a situation where they invest time in a search only to find that the salary isn’t what they expected.
Expected impact: This policy change is mostly a statement of principle, since all recent LPC job board postings have included salary information. We are making the change in recognition of the fact that job posting aggregators have an important role to play in supporting job seekers, and in support of focus area one in our Community Plan: “Support community members’ well-being and career longevity in the field of library publishing.”