“Knowledge Centre: Women in Academia”
Catalyst (July 9, 2015)
Men Professors Earn More Than Women Professors on Average
In 2013, in Canada, women full-time permanent university professors earned an average of $89,670 a year.
- This is 87.8% of what men professors earned
Visible minority faculty made up about 17% of university teachers, slightly higher than their representation in the overall labor force
- Visible minorities overall earned about 90% of what professors as a whole earned
- Latin American professors, however, earned less than 70% of what the professorate as a whole earned and black professors earned just over 75% of what the professorate as a whole earned