Thanks for that question.
I think that's a really good point. Your base salary, where you come in, makes a big difference in terms of how your salary grows. I think, to make sure, from the very beginning.... We know there are biases in how people negotiate their salary and what they ask for. I think there is fairly good evidence that there are gender differences in how people operate in those types of negotiations. I think that's another thing that we really have to bear in mind.
At our university at least, there are no kinds of floors or ceilings. It really is important for people to negotiate a salary as they come in, because that's the salary that, obviously, will grow incrementally over time.