Male department chairs at med schools out-earn women by nearly $80,000 a year

A small new analysis of salary data from medical schools finds that female department chairs are, on average, paid nearly $80,000 less than their male counterparts. The data included 2017 salary ranges from 29 public medical schools in 12 states in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western U.S. for a total sample of 550 department chairs. Researchers found that around 17% of these positions were held by women. Their salaries were, on average, around $373,000 a year, while their male colleagues earned around $452,000. After the researchers adjusted for specialty, how long they had held the positions, and titles, the gap was still around $68,000, and the gap was nearly double among those who had been department chairs for a decade or longer. Some caveats: The data didn't account for race and ethnicity, and didn't include schools in the Northeast.