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Equal Pay Act Charges (Charges filed with EEOC) (includes concurrent charges with Title VII, ADEA, ADA, and GINA) FY 1997 - FY 2022

The following charts represent the total number of charges filed and resolved under the EPA. The data are compiled by the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics from data reported via the quarterly reconciled Data Summary Reports and compiled from EEOC's Charge Data System and, from FY 2004 forward, EEOC's Integrated Mission System.

This does not include charges filed with state or local Fair Employment Practices Agencies.

  FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022
Receipts 1,134 1,071 1,044 1,270 1,251 1,256 1,167 1,011 970 861 818 954 942 1,044 919 1,082 1,019 938 973 1,075 996 1,066 1,117 980 885 955
Resolutions 1,172 1,134 1,026 1,235 1,158 1,182 1,071 996 889 748 796 828 991 1,083 1,101 1,139 1,063 1,024 1,018 1,201 1,225 1,214 1,310 1,143 933 967
Resolutions By Type                                                    
Settlements 71 71 89 80 96 117 124 109 101 88 98 88 91 118 126 130 89 79 79 82 86 89 89 89 90 71
  6.1% 6.3% 8.7% 6.5% 8.3% 9.9% 11.6% 10.9% 11.4% 11.8% 12.3% 10.6% 9.2% 10.9% 11.4% 11.4% 8.4% 7.7% 7.8% 6.8% 7.0% 7.3% 6.8% 7.8% 9.6% 7.3%
Withdrawals w/Benefits 54 49 58 70 62 73 44 65 44 38 60 69 56 90 75 66 60 62 51 88 80 105 110 106 92 90
  4.6% 4.3% 5.7% 5.7% 5.4% 6.2% 4.1% 6.5% 4.9% 5.1% 7.5% 8.3% 5.7% 8.3% 6.8% 5.8% 5.6% 6.1% 5.0% 7.3% 6.5% 8.6% 8.4% 9.3% 9.9% 9.3%
Administrative Closures 302 327 226 250 201 210 178 166 147 113 132 142 277 203 185 186 246 211 171 202 198 201 261 195 197 245
  25.8% 28.8% 22.0% 20.2% 17.4% 17.8% 16.6% 16.7% 16.5% 15.1% 16.6% 17.1% 28.0% 18.7% 16.8% 16.3% 23.1% 20.6% 16.8% 16.8% 16.2% 16.6% 19.9% 17.1% 21.1% 25.3%
No Reasonable Cause 697 616 565 716 679 682 613 573 521 463 445 464 521 614 659 673 605 602 649 772 798 756 790 702 513 499
  59.5% 54.3% 55.1% 58.0% 58.6% 57.7% 57.2% 57.5% 58.6% 61.9% 55.9% 56.0% 52.6% 56.7% 59.9% 59.1% 56.9% 58.8% 63.8% 64.3% 65.1% 62.3% 60.3% 61.4% 55.0% 51.6%
Reasonable Cause 48 71 88 119 120 100 112 83 76 47 61 65 46 58 56 84 63 70 68 57 63 63 60 51 41 52
  4.1% 6.3% 8.6% 9.6% 10.4% 8.5% 10.5% 8.3% 8.5% 6.3% 7.7% 7.9% 4.6% 5.4% 5.1% 7.4% 5.9% 6.8% 6.7% 4.7% 5.1% 5.2% 4.6% 4.5% 4.4% 5.4%
Successful Conciliations 14 15 15 45 37 23 29 24 23 16 28 26 18 25 29 33 20 35 33 27 24 32 32 26 20 27
  1.2% 1.3% 1.5% 3.6% 3.2% 1.9% 2.7% 2.4% 2.6% 2.1% 3.5% 3.1% 1.8% 2.3% 2.6% 2.9% 1.9% 3.4% 3.2% 2.2% 2.0% 2.6% 2.4% 2.3% 2.1% 2.8%
Unsuccessful Conciliations 34 56 73 74 83 77 83 59 53 31 33 39 28 33 27 51 43 35 35 30 39 31 28 25 21 25
  2.9% 5.0% 7.1% 6.0% 7.2% 6.5% 7.7% 5.9% 6.0% 4.1% 4.1% 4.7% 2.8% 3.0% 2.5% 4.5% 4.0% 3.4% 3.4% 2.5% 3.2% 2.6% 2.1% 2.2% 2.3% 2.6%
Merit Resolutions 173 191 235 269 278 290 280 257 221 173 219 222 193 266 257 280 212 211 198 227 229 257 259 246 223 213
  14.8% 16.8% 22.9% 21.8% 24.0% 24.5% 26.1% 25.8% 24.9% 23.1% 27.5% 26.8% 19.5% 24.6% 23.3% 24.6% 19.9% 20.6% 19.4% 18.9% 18.7% 21.2% 19.8% 21.5% 23.9% 22.0%
Monetary Benefits (Millions)* $2.4 $2.7 $2.9 $3.6 $5.1 $10.3 $3.4 $6.4 $3.1 $3.1 $9.3 $9.6 $4.8 $12.6 $23.0 $9.9 $5.0 $6.2 $5.9 $8.1 $9.3 $10.5 $20.7 $10.7 $14.0 $9.9

Data compiled by the Office of Research, Information and Planning from EEOC's Charge Data System and from FY 2004 forward, the Integrated Mission System - quarterly reconciled Data Summary Reports.

Notes: The total of individual percentages may not always sum to 100% due to rounding.

Receipts include all charges filed under EPA as well as those filed concurrently under the TVII, ADA, and/or ADEA. Therefore, the sum of receipts for all statutes will exceed total charges received. EEOC total workload includes charges carried over from previous fiscal years, new charge receipts and charges transferred to EEOC from Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). Resolution of charges each year may therefore exceed receipts for that year because workload being resolved is drawn from a combination of pending, new receipts and FEPA transfer charges rather than from new charges only.

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