The relationship between perceptions of pay level, internal pay equity, external pay equity, personal input, and job demands and a number of work outcomes was examined in a sample of 101 university teachers. Only two of the 20 correlations between those perceptions and the outcomes of work satisfaction, job involvement, internal motivation and self-rated performance were significant, suggesting that in this sample perceptions of different aspects of pay equity are unrelated to positive work outcomes.
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