A gender-based salary anomaly has found male faculty members at the University of Waterloo are making almost $3,000 more than their female counterparts.

Around 2:30 p.m. a memo was sent out stating all female faculty members employed as of April 30th 2015 will now receive a $2,905 raise.

Associate Professor Aimee Morrison says it’s unclear if that raise is a single installment in pay, or if female faculty members who’ve been at the university for years will get fair pay for their time.

“It did say individual faculty members will receive individual salary bumps based on how their particular compensation package was determined to be inequitable,” says Morrison

Morrison says she’s happy the university has looked into this issue, but stresses this isn’t the first time gender-based anomalies have come out of U.W.

“This is not the first working group that has come to this conclusion, and this is not the first time that faculty members have had their salaries arbitrarily raised to address these inequities,” says Morrison. “So what’s really upsetting to me, is not that these inequities have been found, but that every seven-10 years we continue to find them.”

“It seems that there is something not working in the system by which raises are allocated on a year-to-year basis.”

Listen to the complete interview with Associate Professor Aimee Morrison:

Click here for the Salary Anomaly Working Group Analysis & Findings.