50k salary
The figure given in the article, $500,000 averaged over ten people, implied that either ten librarians (they can't ALL be executives) were getting $50,000 each, which is awfully high for this kind of work in this region, or that one or two people were making a heck of a lot more, while the rest were still getting $35,000, which is worse. Neither sounds like a very effective use of the money.
The salary budget figures Mary Anne located do not reasonably add up to $500,000 for ten people, no matter how you do the math, so I accepted that both the article and myself were wrong about this particular objection.