File #: Int 0984-2024    Version: Name: Study on pay equity for private employees.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
On agenda: 7/18/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a study on pay equity for private employees
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, Tiffany Cabán, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Nantasha M. Williams, Julie Menin, Lincoln Restler, Sandra Ung, Shahana K. Hanif, Justin L. Brannan, Chi A. Ossé, Crystal Hudson, Shekar Krishnan, Gale A. Brewer, Alexa Avilés, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Chris Banks, Lynn C. Schulman, Julie Won, Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Sandy Nurse, Susan Zhuang, Kamillah Hanks, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Althea V. Stevens, Mercedes Narcisse
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Summary: This bill would require a designated agency, in coordination with the Commission on Gender Equity and other relevant agencies, to conduct an annual pay equity study on private employers with 200 or more employees. The study would use the pay data information submitted by employers to evaluate whether there are disparities in compensation based on gender and race or ethnicity. The agency would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council a report on the findings of the study. The agency would also publish the information contained in the pay reports submitted by covered employers.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 984-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 984, 3. Int. No. 984, 4. July 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-18-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - July 18, 2024, 7. Committee Report 12/12/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 12/12/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 12/12/24, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 12. Proposed Int. No. 984-A - 10/3/25, 13. Committee Report 10/9/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 10/9/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. October 9, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Int. No. 984-A (FINAL), 18. Int. No. 984-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 19. Int. No. 984-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
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10/9/2025*Amanda Farías Committee on Civil and Human Rights Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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12/12/2024*Amanda Farías Committee on Civil and Human Rights Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 984-A

 

By Council Members Farías, Cabán, Brooks-Powers, Williams, Menin, Restler, Ung, Hanif, Brannan, Ossé, Hudson, Krishnan, Brewer, Avilés, Sanchez, Banks, Schulman, Won, Louis, Marte, Nurse, Zhuang, Hanks, Gutiérrez, De La Rosa, Stevens and Narcisse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a study on pay equity for private employees

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivisions e, f and g of section 12-208.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to pay data reporting by private employers, as proposed in introduction number 982-A for the year 2024, are amended to read as follows:

e. [Reserved] Study. No later than 1 year after covered employers submit their pay reports to the designated agency pursuant to paragraph 3 of subdivision b of this section, and annually thereafter, the designated agency, in collaboration with the commission on gender equity and other relevant agencies, shall conduct a pay equity study. Such study shall evaluate the data contained in the pay reports submitted by covered employers pursuant to this section in order to evaluate whether there are disparities in compensation among employees based on gender and race or ethnicity, and if so, identifying industries where disparities may be prevalent and any trends in occupational segregation based on gender and race or ethnicity.

f. [Reserved] Findings. 1. No later than 6 months after the designated agency conducts a pay equity study pursuant to subdivision e of this section, the designated agency shall deliver the findings of the study required by subdivision e to the mayor and the speaker of the city council. Such findings shall include, at a minimum:

(a) An analysis of the data collected pursuant to such study, including but not limited to a statement of any disparities identified through such study;

(b) A description of every statistical methodology used to analyze such data; and

(c) Recommendations regarding employer action plans for addressing any disparities identified through such study.

2. The designated agency shall make public the recommendations provided under subparagraph c of paragraph 1 of this subdivision.

 g. [Reserved] The designated agency shall publish the data contained in the pay reports submitted by covered employers in the aggregate, and only in a manner that does not reveal any particular covered employer’s or employee’s identifying information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date that a local law amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to pay data reporting by private employers, as proposed in introduction number 982-A for the year 2024, takes effect.

 

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