When it comes to obtaining equal pay, you are closer to the driver’s seat than you realize. You need to learn the legal rules so you can navigate your employer in the right direction.

Ensuring you have equal pay requires you to first, find your comparators and learn their pay. Then, educate your employer and make the ask.

There are so many different categories of unequal pay, and just as many nuances in proving substantially similar work. I’m going to be frank with you: this process can be all over the place. It is not something that can be quickly defined, which is why I want to give you specific examples to contemplate.

If you are being paid less than your coworker of the opposite sex, or another race or ethnicity, for performing substantially similar work, your employer may try to come up with a justification for the pay disparity.

In 2022, the women of the United States CONTINUE to be denied the full rights and privileges which are available to male citizens of the United States.

In 2022, the women of the United States continue to unite to assure that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally, regardless of sex.

Granting women equal rights under the law is PIVOTAL in the fight for equality.

Are you getting paid less than your male peers? Are you getting paid less than your peers of another race or ethnicity than you? Is it for substantially similar work?

California Labor Code section 1197.5(a) provides: "[a]n employer shall not pay any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex for substantially similar work, when viewed as a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions ...."