UH Commission on the Status of Women
Faculty Pay Equity Study, December 2008
In April 2006, the University of Hawai‘i President’s Office and the jointly funded a system-wide Pay Equity Study of faculty salaries in regards to gender and ethnicity. The guiding principle of the study is a commitment to affirmative action and to preventing and correcting sex and ethnic disparities in compensation.
This study examines whether there are disparities in faculty pay associated with a faculty member’s sex or ethnicity, after controlling for job related factors such as campus, college, rank, tenure status, degree, classification and date of hire. “Productivity” and job-market forces must be analyzed and considered after this initial statistical analysis identifies groups who should be further reviewed.
Download the Faculty Pay Equity Study (392KB PDF) prepared for President McClain.