The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced last week that, starting in March 2018, it will collect summary pay data from private employers (including federal contractors and subcontractors) with 100 or more employees. The pay data will be added to the annual Employer Information Report EEO-1, which already collects aggregate data about employees’ gender, race or ethnicity, and job category. The EEOC first proposed collecting compensation data in January of this year as part of its efforts to root out pay discrimination.