EEOC’s Short-Lived Pay Survey Reveals Persistent Gender Gap (2)

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is for the first time publicly releasing aggregated pay data it received from employers through since-abandoned disclosure requirements, though the collection project appears poised for revival under the civil rights agency’s new Democratic majority.

The EEOC said on Tuesday, in honor of Equal Pay Day, that it’s releasing a dashboard with anonymized employer-level staff demographics and pay data from 2017 and 2018, reported by pay-band and broken down by race, sex, ethnicity, and job group.

The pay data was part of the commission’s short-lived EEO-1 Component 2 data collection, which required roughly 70,000 private ...