
Pay and Demographics of California Workers:
Results from Pay Data Reports from Large Employers
CRD collects annual data from private employers with 100 or more employees on the pay, hours worked, job category, race/ethnicity, and sex of their California employees. Employers are required to provide these data under Government Code section 12999, effective January 1, 2021, to encourage employers’ self-assessment of pay disparities in the workforce and to promote voluntary compliance with equal pay and anti-discrimination laws. This webpage provides the findings and aggregated data collected under this statute.
Employers reported data on their 2020 workforce in spring 2021. The 2020 findings below reflect data on 6.3 million reported workers from approximately 149 thousand California establishments. This excludes data from public employers, independent contractors, and smaller employers with fewer than 100 employees, all of which are exempt from reporting. California employees who were working in California but assigned to out-of-state establishments are excluded from this initial publication. The data represent neither the entire employed workforce in California, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates at 17.8 million, nor the self-employed or contingent workforce beyond that estimate. The data were subjected to a series of data protection checks to ensure confidentiality and to suppress or to omit any individually identifiable information, as required by Government Code section 12999(i).
All data featured on this webpage are statewide data from California as a whole. Percentages may not always add to 100% due to rounding. The charts include job-category data in addition to reported workers’ pay and demographic data. For more information on the types of jobs that fall into each job category, visit the EEO-1 Job Classification Guide. Data are also available for downloading in Excel format in the drop-down menus at the bottom of this page. The downloadable data files are aggregated at the statewide level, by industry, and by metropolitan area. Following data protection checks, some of the downloadable files omit data by race/ethnicity to ensure confidentiality.
Sex of Reported California Workers
48%
Women
52%
Men
*Data on gender non-binary reported workers were subjected to data coarsening to ensure the protection of identifiable information and are published separately below.
Race/Ethnicity of Reported California Workers
Pay of Reported California Workers, by Sex and Race/Ethnicity
Pay of Reported Non-Binary California Workers
*Non-binary workers’ data is reported in a different way than data for women and men. Women and men are reported as a percentage of all workers in each job and pay category. Non-binary workers are reported as the percentage of all non-binary workers – not all workers – in each job and pay category. For example, as shown in the visualization chart below, 50-55% of all reported non-binary workers were reported in the lowest pay band in the chart, while 25-30% of all reported non-binary workers were reported in the highest pay band in the chart.
Non-binary workers’ data is reported as percent ranges, which represent the 5% range within which the actual percentage of non-binary workers lies (for example, 2% of nonbinary workers would be reported in the “0-5%” percent range). The use of percent ranges enables CRD to publish non-binary data that otherwise would have been withheld to suppress individually identifiable information.
Data findings.
California Statewide Aggregate
Aggregate by Industry
Aggregate by Region
Non-Binary Reported Workers