8 states have such laws; 16 others considering them, says report
Nearly 83.6 million workers in the U.S. could now be covered by pay range transparency laws, according to the non-profit organization National Women’s Law Center.
Overall, nearly 44.8 million people in the labor force – or 26.6% of the U.S. labor force – are covered by the laws.
Eight states have already passed pay range transparency laws.
These are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island and Washington.
“Nearly 21 million of the people in the labor force in these states are women, meaning 26.4% of women in the entire U.S. labor force are covered by the eight new state pay range transparency laws,” it said.
“This includes over 9.9 million white, non-Hispanic women, over 5.4 million Latinas, over 2.5 million Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women, over 2.1 million Black women, and over 200,000 Native women. It also includes nearly 6.5 million mothers, over 2.2 million single mothers, over 1.5 million women in poverty, and over 13,000 women with disabilities.”
Eight of the top 10 metropolitan areas with the highest increase in pay transparency from February 2022 to February 2023 are in California, according to Indeed’s U.S. pay transparency research released in March.
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