The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection opened Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is 11 p.m. (EDT) June 24, 2025, which is shorter than it has been in the past. Also of note is that this is a hard deadline – meaning that after 11 p.m. June 24, 2025, non-filers will be out of compliance.
As we reported last year, the EEOC previously filed lawsuits against employers for not submitting the required demographic data. With the recent federal government changes, it is unclear if this practice will continue. However, the 2024 instruction booklet indicates that covered employers will not be sent a “Notice of Failure to File” as were sent in previous years.
This mandatory annual data collection requires all private sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting certain criteria to submit workforce demographic data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the EEOC. Employers meeting the reporting thresholds have a legal obligation to provide the data; it is not voluntary.
Historically, the data is used for a variety of purposes, including investigation, enforcement, self-assessment by employers, and research. The report collects data about gender and race/ethnicity by job grouping and is shared with other authorized federal agencies to avoid duplicate collection of data and reduce the burden on employers. Although the data is confidential, aggregated data is available to the public.
State and local governments use a separate report, the EEO-4, and school districts use the EEO-5, but they are on a different biennial schedule and not required at this time.
For more information, please contact Employers Council.