BU president promises response to salary inequities

BU Today: Faculty Council study finds low salary levels at BU, gender inequity; President Brown vows to address “serious issue” of gender gap in pay

Robert Brown, president of Boston University, pledged Wednesday to study and respond to a faculty report about salary gaps between BU professors and colleagues at comparable institutions, and between male and female professors at the university. A faculty panel found that university professors make 7.1 percent less, on average, than professors at other private doctoral universities, and that the salaries of female professors lag behind those of their male counterparts at all faculty ranks.”As a university, we have to determine what we can afford in order to make our compensation more competitive,” said Brown. “But what we cannot afford, and what we have to fix, is any inequity based on gender.”

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