all/other things being equal

idiom

formal

—used to say what should happen or be true if two situations, products, etc., are different in a specified way but not in other ways

All things being equal, a person with a PhD should be getting a higher salary than someone with only a master's degree.

Examples of all/other things being equal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Pacioretty’s play seemed to sum up why Craig Berube will, all things being equal, almost always lean toward veteran experience. —Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 May 2025

Boeser, meanwhile, is settled and content in Vancouver and would prefer to stay all things being equal. —Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025

Just know that increasing your withdrawal amount at any point will likely leave less savings to grow—and thus reduce your future withdrawals, all other things being equal—compared to using unadjusted withdrawal amounts. —Steve Vernon, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025

As a business owner, higher profit margins, all other things being equal, are more valuable. —Bill Stone, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024

This means that all things being equal (the two parties are equally unified, equally effective at turning out their voters and equally effective at winning independents), Democrats are now disadvantaged in statewide elections here. —Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024

Should the Mets trade or perhaps try to extend the following players, all things being equal: Luis Severino, J.D. Martinez, Harrison Bader, Sean Manaea. —Jim Bowden, The Athletic, 23 July 2024

With all things being equal, Black women still had a higher rate of cesarean. —Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 19 Sep. 2024

That means the region is already below the 2.1 children-per-woman threshold necessary to maintain its population level, other things being equal — what’s known as the replacement level. —Juan Pablo Spinetto, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024