The 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection portal is open. The submission deadline is June 24, 2025. The filing period is significantly shorter this year than in years past and the EEOC has stated that it will not extend the filing period.
Employers with at least 100 employees are required to file an EEO-1 Report. Additionally, citing Executive Order 11246, the instructions also require federal contractors with 50-99 employees to file an EEO-1 Report. However, President Trump rescinded the Executive Order on January 21, 2025, presumably relieving federal contractors with less than 100 employees from the obligation to comply with the EEO-1 reporting requirements. Federal contractors with less than 100 employees are advised to monitor the EEOC website for clarification.
The EEO-1 instructions include one substantive change. In compliance with Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, employers are no longer permitted to report non-binary employees as a separate category. The 2024 EEO-1 data collection provides only binary options (i.e., male or female) for reporting employee counts by sex, job category, and race or ethnicity.
Given the shortened filing period, employers should begin gathering the data needed to complete the report. Resource materials related to the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection are available on the EEOC website.
