A Factorial Analysis of Gender and Rank on Business School Faculty’s Salaries as a Gauge for Dissatisfaction

Business faculty salaries from 13 institutions of higher learning across 5 states were collected via the collegiatetimes website, a public salary database. Those data included faculty members' gender, rank, and teaching field. A gender difference (p <.01) was found when four null hypotheses were tested. Chi-square was used to ascertain whether differences existed between relative frequency of occurrence of male and female faculty and ranks. Two-Way Analysis of Variance, with a 2 x 4 factorial design, was used to test for main effects and interaction effects when gender and ranks were the independent variables and salary was the dependent variable. Although women earn less than men across all academic ranks, the magnitudes in salary increases were non-significant with an interaction effect of p = .779. Therefore, female business school faculty might not be subject to more dissatisfaction than men when salary is used as a gauge for female dissatisfaction