Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Language

English

Publication Date

3-1-2024

Journal

Academic Pediatrics

DOI

10.1016/j.acap.2023.05.017

PMID

37285912

PMCID

PMC11177246

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

3-1-2025

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Author MSS

Abstract

Objective: In medicine, women have lower lifetime earnings than men. To our knowledge, an in-depth examination of academic general pediatric faculty compensation by gender, race, and ethnicity has not been conducted. We aimed to 1) explore full-time academic general pediatric faculty salary differences by race and ethnicity; 2) explore these differences among all full-time pediatric faculty.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study using data on median full-time academic general pediatric faculty compensation for the academic year of 2020-2021 from the Association of American Medical Colleges Medical School Faculty Salary Survey report. Pearson's chi-square tests were used to evaluate the association of faculty rank with gender, race, ethnicity, and degree. We used hierarchical generalize linear models with a log link and a gamma distribution to model to assess the association of median salary with faculty race and ethnicity, adjusting for degree, rank, and gender.

Results: Men academic general pediatric faculty consistently had higher median salaries than women faculty even after adjusting for degree, rank, race, and ethnicity. Underrepresented in medicine academic general pediatric faculty had a lower median salary when compared to White faculty, and this was similar when adjusted for degree, rank, race, and ethnicity.

Conclusions: Our results demonstrated broad disparities in general academic pediatric compensation by both gender and race and ethnicity. Academic medical centers must identify, acknowledge, and address inequities in compensation models.

Keywords

Male, Humans, Female, Child, United States, Cross-Sectional Studies, Ethnicity, Salaries and Fringe Benefits, Surveys and Questionnaires, Faculty, Medical, ompensation, diversity, equity, faculty, inclusion, salary

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