In two of the three executive positions in which women’s median salaries exceeded men’s, female representation was relatively low. But in one other area that had relatively low female representation among chief administrators, athletics, women earned only 84 percent of what their male counterparts did.
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| Chief facilities officer | 63 | 743 | 8% | $138,529 | $116,391 | 119% |
| Chief information/IT officer | 186 | 725 | 20% | $145,007 | $135,091 | 107% |
| Chief student-affairs/student-life officer | 411 | 399 | 51% | $145,000 | $141,440 | 103% |
| Chief executive, single institution or campus within a system | 275 | 738 | 27% | $295,000 | $305,473 | 97% |
| Chief academic-affairs officer/provost | 412 | 585 | 41% | $187,246 | $196,000 | 96% |
| Chief institutional-research officer | 390 | 330 | 54% | $91,800 | $96,115 | 96% |
| Chief library officer | 439 | 302 | 59% | $95,185 | $100,056 | 95% |
| Chief business officer | 223 | 552 | 29% | $176,610 | $188,481 | 94% |
| Chief legal-affairs officer | 166 | 201 | 45% | $182,171 | $200,000 | 91% |
| Chief human-resources officer | 696 | 263 | 73% | $110,000 | $121,594 | 90% |
| Chief enrollment-management officer | 277 | 394 | 41% | $135,252 | $153,306 | 88% |
| Chief public-relations officer | 315 | 265 | 54% | $108,228 | $123,230 | 88% |
| Chief development/advancement officer | 360 | 491 | 42% | $150,956 | $175,000 | 86% |
| Chief athletics administrator | 136 | 646 | 17% | $103,812 | $123,277 | 84% |
| Chief financial officer | 163 | 260 | 39% | $147,000 | $190,136 | 77% |
Note: Data are based on a survey conducted in late 2016 and early 2017 that gathered information on 191 executive and senior-level-administrative positions at 1,125 institutions. Both public and private nonprofit, and both two-year and four-year, institutions participated in the survey.
Source: Bichsel, Jacqueline, and McChesney, Jasper. “The Gender Pay Gap and the Representation of Women in Higher Education Administrative Positions: The Century So Far.” Research report. College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), February 2017. Available from www.cupahr.org/surveys/briefs.aspx.