Pennsylvania Pay Equity

• Equal Pay Law, Pa. Stat. Ann. Title 43 § 336.1 et seq

• Sex

• “No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate 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 for comparable work[.]”

• Bona fide seniority system
• Bona fide merit system
• Bona fide system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or sales
• Bona fide factor other than sex, including education, training, or experience
• Bona fide factor applies only if the employer demonstrates that it is not based upon or derived from a sex-based differential, is job-related, and is consistent with business necessity

• Unlawful for state agencies to request salary history
• Pittsburgh prohibits the city from asking about a job applicant's salary history and relying on wage history in the employment process, unless the applicant volunteered the information
• Philadelphia employers are prohibited from inquiring about a prospective employee's wage history, requiring disclosure of wage history, conditioning employment or consideration for an interview on disclosure of wage history, retaliating against a prospective employee for failing to comply with any wage history inquiry, and relying on wage history in determining a prospective employee's wages unless "knowingly and willingly" disclosed

• Prohibits retaliation 

Wage Disclosure Requirements (public employers)

• All job postings by state agencies must clearly disclose a position’s pay scale and pay range.