On March 12, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that employers ​must file their 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data compilation with the agency by the end of July after last year’s collection deadline was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a brief refresher, EEO-1 Component 1 requires private businesses with over 100 workers to produce yearly data collections, including data on employees’ race, gender, and ethnicity by job category.

On January 12, 2021, the EEOC first announced that the data collection for the 2019 and 2020 calendar years would start in April 2021. This past Friday, the EEOC confirmed this, stating: “[t]he EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open at the end of April 2021 and close in July 2021. The exact closing date will be posted when the data collection launches. Employers will be notified of additional details and how to access the online filing system in April.” 

As to EEO-1 Component 2 data (compensation and payrate data), the EEOC has not announced any deadline to file the previously required, and surprisingly complicated to collect, compensation data. However, the EEOC has unofficially stated there ​will be no additional reporting requirements outside of the EEO-1 Component 1 for 2021, and thus, it appears that Component 2 compensation data will not be required for 2019 or 2020.