Who pays librarians?
Most public libraries are funded by the state, goverment, taxes, so who pays the librarians? If a librarian makes over $50,000 a year, where is that money coming from. What about on Native American land's, who funds the libraries there?
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The city unless a private organization is running the library.
Next time you're at a library just ask.
Public libraries are funded via taxes, and that includes the salaries paid to employees.
$50,000 a year isn't that high a salary for the level of education, knowledge, and skill librarians have. The required professional degree is a master's in library and information science. At colleges and universities, librarians may hold doctorates, too. One of my husband's master's degrees is an MLIS. When he was working for universities and cultural institutions, his salary was a lot higher than $50,000.
Librarians at public colleges and universities are also paid via taxes. Other types of librarians are paid by the employer from private operating funds. Many institutions besides colleges and universities have libraries, after all.
Native American librarians on tribal lands would be paid for via tribal funds.
a city library, the city, a county library, the county, a gov't library, the fed gov't as also a state library paid by the state
a private library, by the organization that maintains it, sometimes a nonprofit organization
a Native American library probably by the donor who provided it, could be the local organization that set it up
They are paid by the library or the government agency that employees them. Same goes on Native American land as well.
As you said, libraries are funded by public taxes, so public taxes pay librarian salaries (and police and fire salaries and the salaries of all people who work for any government entity).
Librarians are paid by those same taxes.
in fact, it is a public record that you can look up whenever you like online. every Library website has a link to the info, by law.
if there are Libraries on Native American lands, they pay for it themselves.
Taxes, ofcourse.
Employees are paid out of the library operating funds. In my area, we have lots of Carnegie libraries. They all have endowments and get some government money.
The library pay them, on tribal land the tribe pays them