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76 cents for “all earners” (full time year-round + part time and part year)
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81 cents for full time, year round workers
Equal Pay Day will be held on March 26 this year.
On this day, we will highlight the fact that, according to 2024 Census data, the wage gap for women compared to men is 81 cents on the dollar for full-time, year-round workers. When you look at all earners, including full-time, year-round earners, part-time, and part-year workers, the wage gap widens to 76 cents. These wage gaps are unacceptable. Women continue to be underpaid and undervalued.
Join the 50+ organizations-strong Equal Pay Today coalition, advocates, lawmakers, and community members from across the country on March 26, 2026 at 2pm ET/11am PT in a social media storm (although you are welcome to post all day) to raise awareness about the ongoing wage gaps that impact women and their families and to call for an end to this Administration’s rollback of workplace protections.
This year, we will be joining together to condemn the Trump Administration’s and Chair Andrea Lucas’ gutting of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency empowered to protect our employment rights, now weaponized to do just the opposite. Recently, they have denied protections for trans workers, pulled down needed workplace harassment guidance, and threatened firms with DEI programs. Now they are poised to rescind critical employment data collections.
On this Equal Pay Day, our call to action will be urging the EEOC to not rescind the EEO-1 and related data collections. This important data collection, which has been in place through Democratic and Republican Administrations since the 1960s, is used by the agency to inform their investigations for employment discrimination, to focus the agency’s limited resources on occupations where data suggests disparities, to help employers examine their own employment practices, and to provide researchers, press, and the public with important aggregate data to understand diversity within our workforces. If you cannot measure problems, it is hard to do anything to address them, which is exactly why this is happening.
Our shared hashtags for the day will be #EqualPayDay. Thank you for joining us this year telling Trump and the EEOC to stop the rollbacks and to preserve their data collections.
