Illinois Equal Pay Act Compliance Deadline

If your company qualifies for the EPRC requirement, but has not yet applied for an EPRC, you should act now to meet compliance requirements.

In the summer of 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law several amendments to Illinois statutes focused on equal pay initiatives. One of those amendments requires companies with 100 or more employees in the state, who also file an EEO-1 (Annual Employer Information Report) with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), to obtain an Equal Pay Registration Certificate ("EPRC") from the Illinois Department of Labor ("IDOL") and recertify on a rolling two year basis. The first EPRC Reporting deadline was March 23, 2024. The intent is to make the EPRC data – similar to that on the EEO-1 – public within 90 days of the IDOL's receipt of the data.