Pay Equity

Pay Equity:  The Minnesota Experience was published in May 1994.

For more than a decade Minnesota has led pay equity efforts in the nation.  While pay equity initiatives have now been undertaken in thousands of public and private organizations across the country, Minnesota was the first to provide pay equity for state government employees and the first to require pay equity for local government employees. 

Minnesota's experience shows that pay equity can be implemented smoothly and at a reasonable cost.

The purpose of this booklet is to review the basic concepts of pay equity - also called "comparable pay for work of comparable value" or "comparable worth" - and to summarize pay equity activity in the United States and particularly in Minnesota.   

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Pay Equity Report:  The Minnesota Experience is posted in portable document format (PDF) and must be viewed with Adobe® Acrobat® ReaderTM which can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website. Adobe® also provides accessibility tools  for screen reader access.

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