A Banner Week

This really has turned out to be a banner week. Jonathan got into the FSP (see below) and our board voted to adjust our salary scale to bring all the wages paid to staff up to market value. For some on staff that means a 20% increase, for others, a little less, for a lucky few who were already being paid at market value for their positions, it means no increase at all. For me, it's a 9% increase, effective April 26. My director is getting the largest increase - nearly a 30% increase. He deserves it. He's been sorely underpaid for years. He is the director of the third busiest library system in Idaho and yet his pay has ranked far below that of directors of much smaller library systems. With Jonathan's upcoming trip to France, I'm going to need every bit of that raise. What an amazing week.