In the fall of 2020, news outlets carried stories about the significant wage gap between male and female professors showing up in Statistics Canada salary data for full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities for 2019/20. Concern was expressed here by many faculty members.

This issue of Collectively Speaking provides a preliminary examination of the gap in average salaries by rank at the U of S and other U15 universities, leading up to the distribution of the U of S Pay Inequity Balancing Fund, and the years following.