
New Pay Transparency Required by California Starting in 2023
On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed into effect SB 1162, a critical new law requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay scale data in job postings and provide the pay data to current employees upon request. The new law will also require employers with more than 100 employees to report “for each combination of race, ethnicity, and sex, the median and mean hourly rate” for a litany of job categories. According to a recent analysis of pay data required under SB 973, in 2020, women in California