Unresolved Issues in Salary-Equity Studies : New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 117

Chapters discuss the issues surrounding how to use faculty rank, seniority, and experience as control variables in salary equity studies. Contributors review the challenges of conducting a salary equity study for nonfaculty administrators and staff who constitute the majority of employees, even in academic institutions and examine the advantages and disadvantages of using hierarchical linear modeling to measure pay equity. They present a case study approach to illustrate the political and practical challenges that researchers often face when conducting a salary equity study for an institution. This is a companion volume to "Conducting Salary Equity Studies: Alternative Approaches to Research (IR115)".