The University of Waterloo is bumping the salaries of its female faculty members by close to $3,000 after an internal review found they were being paid less than their male coworkers.

In a memo emailed to faculty Wednesday and obtained by The Canadian Press, the university says a working group tasked with analyzing faculty salaries uncovered a “systemic gender anomaly” that was “consistent across the university.”

As a result, it says an adjustment of $2,905 will be made on Sept. 1 to the salaries of all female faculty members who were in the union’s bargaining unit as of April 30 of last year.

The review was part of a salary settlement between the university and the union that was reached May 1 of last year.

Other faculty members’ salaries were also flagged as “anomalous” and the review recommended that a one-time adjustment be made to make up for the discrepancy.

Salaries were evaluated using a regression model that took several variables into account, including annual performance evaluations and outstanding performance awards.

The report says that 71 of roughly 1,170 faculty members were identified as “potential anomalies,” and of those, 59 were confirmed anomalies, meaning “there was nothing in their career path that could account for the aberration in their actual salaries and the fitted/predicted salary outputted from the regression model.”

The remaining 12 will be investigated further.

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