In 2013 SFUFA and Academic Women made a request to the Vice-President Academic that an Equity Audit be conducted of SFUFA member salaries.

SFUFA and the University established a joint working group with a mandate to examine whether gender-based salary inequities were present at SFU. This prompted the creation of a Salary Equity Recommendation Committee, which completed its work in September 2016. Those recommendations can be found in a report that is now foundable through the Internet Archive. Information is also available on the SFUFA website.

The Collective Agreement with SFUFA negotiated for the period 2022-2025 included a clause that studies of salary equity should take place at least every 5 years, to prevent backsliding:

Article 13.9: To the extent feasible through available and reliable data, and in accordance with an agreed-upon methodology, no less than once every 5 years, a joint committee (with Terms of Reference and membership as may be agreed-upon), will undertake a study of salary equity based on designated equity groups that encompasses all ranks.

As of Fall 2026, SFU has found it not feasible to conduct such a study. A committee was struck in the 2025-26 academic year, but they were unable to complete the study, because Faculty Relations found it not feasible to release useable data. 

This is an ongoing concern for Academic Women and we continue to press the SFU Administration to facilitate the study agreed upon in the Collective Agreement.