On May 20, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed a bill into law that will provide employers with a cure period for job postings that do not include pay information, allow employers to advertise a fixed amount of pay instead of a wage scale or wage range, and make other substantial changes to the state’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA).

Quick Hits

• Washington Governor Ferguson signed legislation amending the pay transparency requirements of the EPOA.
• The amended EPOA provides employers a cure period of five business days after receiving notice of a defective posting to change a posting to comply with the pay transparency requirements.
• The new law will also allow employers to advertise a single fixed pay amount in job postings instead of a pay range, in certain circumstances.
• The law also limits remedies for affected job applicants, allowing them to seek either administrative remedies or statutory damages in a private civil action.

Washington Substitute Senate Bill (SSB) 5408 amends the pay and benefit information in job positions required by the EPOA, provisions that have led to hundreds of class action lawsuits since summer 2023. The law will take effect on July 27, 2025.

The signing comes after Washington lawmakers passed SSB 5408 with amendments in April 2025, updating the pay transparency provisions in Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 49.58.110.

Specifically, RCW 49.58.110 requires employers with fifteen or more employees to affirmatively disclose in...

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