B. Wildcat Plumbing Supply Inc.: Do We Have Gender Differences?

Wildcat Plumbing Supply has served the plumbing needs of Southwest Arizona for more than 40 years. The company was founded by Mr. Terrence St. Julian and is run today by his son Cory. The company has grown from a handful of employees to more than 500 today. Cory is concerned about several positions within the company where he has men and women doing essentially the same job but at different pay. To investigate, he collected the information below. Suppose you are a student intern in the Accounting Department and have been given the task to build report summarizing the situation.

To kick off the project, Mr. Cory St. Julian held a meeting with his staff and you were invited. At this meeting, it was suggested that you calculate several measures of location, create charts or draw graphs such as a cumulative frequency distribution, and determine the quartiles for both men and women. Develop the charts and write the report summarizing the yearly salaries of employees at Wildcat Plumbing Supply. Does it appear that there are pay differences based on gender?

Use the data from the case:

build report to Mr. Cory St. Julian addressing the case issues. Include in your report whether you think there is a problem and any suggestions you might have.

Does your data represent a population or a sample? _____________________________________

What is the population or sample size? ________________________________________________

What is (are) the independent variable(s)? _____________________________________________

What is (are) the dependent variable(s)? _______________________________________________

Construct a chart representing the data. ______________________________________________

Calculate the mean(s): _____________________________________________________________

Determine the median(s): ___________________________________________________________

Determine the mode(s): _____________________________________________________________

What information do these values provide regarding your data set? __________________________

Does your data represent a normal distribution?

Why/how do you know? _____________________

What is the range? __________________________________________________________________

Calculate the variance: _______________________________________________________________

Calculate the standard deviation: _______________________________________________________

Calculate the standard error: __________________________________________________________

Complete the questions presented in your case study - type the questions, do necessary calculations, answer the question. Provide your recommendations to "a board of directors" - based on the case information, calculations, and your answers to the questions.