What You Need To Know About Illinois’ New Pay Transparency Law

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Women who work full time earn, on average, 83.6 cents for every dollar men do. When factoring in race, women of color earn even less on the dollar. To address this persistent gender wage gap, lawmakers amended the Illinois’ Equal Pay Act to make the job application process more transparent. Reset spoke with Sharmili Majmudar, Executive Vice President of Policy, Programs, and Research for Women Employed and Kathryn O’Connor, HR Source’s Director of Compensation about how this could affect salaried and hourly employees, and the adjustments employers will have to make. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.