Volume 11, Number 3 (Summer) 1976
Gordon, Nancy M., and Thomas E. Morton. 1976. "The Staff Salary Structure of a Large Urban University." Journal of Human Resources 11(3):374-382.
Several investigators have focused on salary differentials between male and female faculty members. This paper uses data on all full-time staff (non-faculty) employees at a large university and controls for age, education, sex, marital status, years at the university, and job. Because the university uses an exceptionally large number of job titles, many of which are held predominately by one sex, three separate analyses were undertaken using three job-classification schemes. Regression analyses for all three schemes yield similar, unambiguous results and explain between 70 and 90 percent of the variation in salary across employees. On average, after controlling for variables listed above, a woman staff member earns 7, 13, and 17 percent less than a man. The 7 percent figure is considered conservative.
The authors are, respectively, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute, and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. The authors wish to thank David Cass, Robert Lucas, Timothy McGuire, and Leonard Rapping for their valuable suggestions and Margaret Hart and Marcel Weiner for their diligence as research assistants. Roman Weil, Lester Lave, and our programmer, Mark Gelfand, were especially helpful. The material in this project was prepared under Grant No. 91-42-73-32 from the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, under the authority of Title I of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended. Researchers undertaking such projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment. Therefore, points of view or opinions stated in this document do not represent the official position of policy of the Department of Labor.
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