California's Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act (SB 1162)

California's Civil Rights Department (CRD) has required private employers with 100 or more employees to submit annual pay data by job category, race, ethnicity and sex since Senate Bill 973 took effect in 2020. Senate Bill 1162, effective January 2023, extended the regime by requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay scales in every job posting and to give existing employees their own pay range on request.
The CRD's most recent release, covering 2024 data from roughly 170,000 California businesses and nearly 8 million workers, found that women held 37% of senior manager and executive roles compared with 63% for men — up only slightly from 34% in 2020, the reporting program's first year — while women, who made up 47% of the workforce in the dataset, accounted for 53% of workers earning $32,239 or less.
Independent reporting on the law describes strong employer uptake of the job-posting requirement, but the CRD itself frames the persistent divide as evidence that disclosure alone has not closed the gap, positioning the program as an ongoing monitoring and enforcement tool rather than a solved problem.

Read the full analysis: https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2026/03/2026.03.26-2024-Pay-Data-Release.pdf