# Equal Pay Act — US federal employment law thresholds by employee count

For Equal Pay Act, full name is Equal Pay Act of 1963; size rule is no employee-count threshold; requirement is No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work, recorded from its source on 2026-09-29; source re-checked 2026-11-01.

- **Law:** Equal Pay Act _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Full name:** Equal Pay Act of 1963 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Size rule:** no employee-count threshold _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Requirement:** No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Law

> Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.

### Full name

> may be cited as the 'Equal Pay Act of 1963'.

### Size rule

> Virtually all employers are covered by the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which makes it illegal to pay different wages to men and women if they perform substantially equal work in the same workplace.

### Requirement

> No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions

## Source

- https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage-businessprivate-employers
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section206&num=0&edition=prelim
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section201&num=0&edition=prelim

Last verified: 2026-11-01. Review by: 2027-09-29.
Part of [US federal employment law thresholds by employee count](https://referencesource.org/regulatory-threshold-triggers/).