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. 2024 Mar;24(2):309-317.
doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2023.05.017. Epub 2023 Jun 5.

Examining Full-Time Academic General Pediatric Faculty Compensation by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: 2020-2021

Emma A Omoruyi  1 , Callie L Brown  2 , Colin J Orr  3 , Kimberly Montez  4
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Examining Full-Time Academic General Pediatric Faculty Compensation by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: 2020-2021

Emma A Omoruyi et al. Acad Pediatr. 2024 Mar.

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: compensation; diversity; equity; faculty; inclusion; salary.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Median salary by rank, gender, race and ethnicity for (a) total full-time pediatrics faculty and (b) full-time general pediatrics faculty*. *Note: Salary information is not provided if sample size for the category is < 5; hence, some categories in general pediatrics have no available compensation data.
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