Salary Negotiations and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence From an American University Setting

• In Event: Early Career Socialization and Gender and Race Considerations

Abstract

This quantitative study focuses on the role that faculty negotiations play in the gender pay gap in academia. The study relies on survey data collected at a public research university located in the United States. While pay gap literature is extensive, what is largely missing from the pay gap literature within the professoriate is an examination of negotiation differences between men and women faculty at key points in their professional trajectories, in particular at the point of hire and at the stage of tenure and promotion. We find women faculty members earn substantially less than their male counterparts, however, women appear to negotiate more at the outset of their careers but to lose that advantage by the stage of tenure.

Authors

• Sarah Kilmer, University of Maryland - College Park

• John Francis McCauley, University of Maryland - College Park

• Cameron Busacca, University of Maryland - College Park