UMass Gender Pay Gap: Top paid men making nearly 30 percent more than female colleagues
In partnership with the Justice Media Computational Journalism co-Lab at Boston University.
By Suzanne Crow, Conor Kelley, Jeffrey Emmons, Matteo David, Wenyan Zhang, and Phillip Huynh, Photo: CBS Boston
After the University of Massachusetts officials were alerted to significant gender pay gaps — three years later, the inequity has only gotten worse, according to state payroll data. In 2021 women made up significantly less than half of the top 10 highest paid individuals at nearly every UMass campus. At two campuses that year, there was only one woman among the highest earners.
Throughout the entire UMass system between 2017 and 2021 — looking at jobs held by both men and women making between $25,000 and $150,000 — women made an average of nearly 2.5% more. Yet when you look at the jobs held by both men and women making between $150,000 and $1 million during the same time frame, men made an average of nearly 29% more. This gap highlights the ongoing issue of gender inequality in the workplace and the need for action to address this systemic problem.