Salary discrimination allegations and data

In contrast to cases involving hiring discrimination, employment cases involving discriminatory salary allegations tend to present relatively few special data issues for the statistical expert. Generally, employers tend to keep data records on compensation issues that are sufficient for most statistical employment analyses. In these types of cases, the statistical expert will generally be most concerned with the specification of the underlying compensation process.

For example, in many of the cases both the plaintiff and defendant statistical experts will utilize the same employer salary and generally use the same class of statistical methodologies. The differences between the opposing statistical experts opinions frequently revolves around the specification of the compensation model and the employment actors included in the model.