Advancing Compensation Equity as a Strategic Workforce Solution

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Use these charts and infographics from Promising Practices in presentations about salary equity to facilitate understanding of national trends.

• Figure 1: Institutional Gender Equity Framework (PDF)
• Figure 2: USC’s Center for Urban Education (2018) Equity-Mindedness Framework (PDF)
• Figure 3: Full-time faculty by department, rank, and gender at all U.S. medical schools (PDF)
• Figure 4: Seven-year promotions for first-time assistant and associate professors (PDF)
• Figure 5: Workplace engagement and culture (PDF)
• Figure 6: Allocation and perceptions of effort: full-time basic-science faculty (PDF)
• Figure 7: Allocation and perceptions of effort: full-time clinical faculty (PDF)
• Figure 8: Sample representation for FY 2017 faculty salary survey data analysis (PDF)
• Figure 9: 2017 distribution of men’s and women’s median compensation (PDF)
• Figure 10: FY 2017 median compensation by gender and rank (PDF)
• Figure 11: FY 2017 median compensation by gender, rank, and department type (PDF)
• Figure 12: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women by department type and degree (PDF)
• Figure 13: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women by department and specialty (PDF)
• Figure 14: All faculty compensation and cents on the dollar for women by department and specialty (PDF)
• Figure 15: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women by medicine specialties (PDF)
• Figure 16: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women by pediatric specialties (PDF)
• Figure 17: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women by surgical specialties (PDF)
• Figure 18 & 19: Compensation by gender, rank, departments – neurosciences and physiology (PDF)
• Figure 20 & 21: Compensation by gender, rank, departments – surgery and radiology (PDF)
• Figure 22 & 23: Compensation by gender, rank, departments – pediatrics and OBGYN (PDF)
• Figure 24 & Table 2: Median and total compensation by gender, rank, and degree (PDF)
• Figure 25: Compensation in cents on the dollar for women across medical schools (PDF)
• Figure 26: Compensation in cents on the dollar by faculty size across medical schools (PDF)
• Figure 27: Yearly snapshot of compensation in cents on the dollar by department type from 2013-17 (PDF)
• Figure 28 & 29: Yearly snapshot of compensation by gender, rank – instructor & assistant (PDF)
• Figures 30 & 31: Yearly snapshot of compensation by gender, rank – associate & professor (PDF)
• Figure 32 & 33: Yearly snapshot of compensation by gender, rank – chief & chair (PDF)

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Examine reports from other schools of medicine to understand study methodologies, variables used, study approach, and recommendations.

• UCSF Faculty Salary Equity Review Full Report (2018)
• Medical College of Wisconsin Compensation & Productivity Benchmarking Methodology (PDF) (2018)
• UCLA Senate Faculty Salary Equity Study for the Schools of Medicine & Dentistry (2017)
• Yale Annual Regression Model (PDF) (2018)
• UCI Faculty Salary Equity Study School of Medicine (2017)
• University of Colorado Denver “Supporting Gender Equity: Faculty Focus Group Results (PDF) (2017)
• East Carolina University faculty Xiangming Fang, PhD, published: Equal Work for Unequal Pay: the Gender Reimbursement Gap for Healthcare Providers in the United States (2016)
• UC Davis Faculty Salary Equity Analysis (2014)
• University of Virginia Faculty Salary Study Task Force Report (2014)

Review these dashboards to consider new ways of displaying data for individual faculty members, leaders to track their faculty information, or better monitor from an institutional perspective.

• MCW Department Chair Placemat (PDF)
• MCW Individual Faculty Compensation and Productivity Assessment (PDF)
• MCW Department Scorecard (PDF)
• UFL College of Medicine Compensation Plan Analysis (PDF)
• Yale School of Medicine Individual Compensation Benchmarking Statement (PDF)  

Use these sample philosophies and policies to consider developing your own statements or policies to better inform faculty about your institutions goals regarding compensation.

• Yale School of Medicine Compensation Philosophy and Principles (PDF)
• MCW Compensation Philosophy (PDF) and Overview (PDF) (2014)
• MCW Compensation Corporate Policies and Procedures (PDF) (2018)
• ACP Position Statement on Compensation Equity and Transparency in the Field of Medicine (2017)
• PayScale: The insights to guide smarter comp strategies and PayScale Sample Compensation Philosophy Template (2018)

Compare methods used both in higher education and other industries to gain additional perspectives and context for salary equity studies to inform your overall strategy.

• National Women’s Law Center The Wage Gap: The Who, How, Why, and What to Do Fact Sheet (2020)
• Leveling the Paying Field: Best Practices for Gender Pay Equity in the Workplace (2018)
• University of Buffalo Internal 2016-2017 Faculty Salary Equity Study (2018)
• Georgetown University Women Can’t Win (2018)
• CUPA-HR The Gender Pay Gap and the Representation of Women in Higher Education Administrative Positions: The Century So Far (2017)
• CUPA-HR Women’s Equity in Higher Education Administration Infographic (2017)
• PayScale The State of the Gender Pay Gap
• Glassdoor How to Analyze Your Gender Pay Gap: An Employer’s Guide (2019)

Various physician organizations produce regular reports examining the current state of physician compensation by specialty. These studies cover physicians broadly and can be used as additional context in examining the salaries of clinical MD faculty.

• Medscape Physician Compensation Report (2024)
• 2024 Medscape Female Physician Compensation Report (login required)
• MGMA Press Release on 2024 Physician Compensation and Production Survey (log in to access the full report)
• 2018 Medscape Physician Compensation Report and Overview of Female Physician Compensation (free, requires site account registration)
• Doximity Physician Compensation Report (2018)
• Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation and Career Advancement: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (2018)
• CHWS Gender Pay Gaps Widen for Newly Trained Physicians (2018)
• Athena Health Gender Disparities Among Physicians – Infographic Series (2018)
• Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation and Career Advancement: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians (2018)
• May 10, 2017: Gender, specialty, age and productivity among factors in physicians’ compensation
• MGMA Announces Research On What Creates A Leading And Profitable Medical Practice (2017)

Explore these online tools to view data trends and formulate your own strategy around salary equity including communications, implementation ideas, and pledges of support.

• MGMA Compensation Calculator (membership required)
• MGMA DataDive Provider – Compensation Data (purchase required)
• Chronicle of Higher Education Data Tool – faculty, staff, and adjunct salary data across colleges
• Inside Higher Ed Compensation Sorter By State and Rank
• Higher Education Wage Gap Graphic – Visualizing the Wage Gender Gap at America’s Top Colleges
• IWPR Pay Equity and Discrimination Web Resource
• SHRM Managing Pay Equity Online Toolkit (membership required)
• US Business Equal Pay Pledge
• National Committee on Pay Equity Online Resource
• ADA Webinar – The Gender Pay Gap in Medicine, Law and Dentistry

Review existing research that examines faculty salaries across academic medicine to support design of local efforts to study salary equity, particularly as a part of developing a larger strategy to address gender equity.

• Pay Equity in Academic Medicine and STEM (PDF)