{"data":{"id":"us/29-cfr-1620.22","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"29 CFR 1620.22","heading":"Employment cost not a “factor other than sex.”","body":"A wage differential based on claimed differences between the average cost of employing workers of one sex as a group and the average cost of employing workers of the opposite sex as a group is discriminatory and does not qualify as a differential based on any “factor other than sex,” and will result in a violation of the equal pay provisions, if the equal pay standard otherwise applies.","path":["Title 29—Labor","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Labor","CHAPTER XIV—EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION","PART 1620—THE EQUAL PAY ACT"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-29.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:20Z","sha256":"7f10b3ffa23244924facf7663b07ff9441072fd36e5f7225b55dfad13cb2cd56","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/29-cfr-1620.21","next":"us/29-cfr-1620.23"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}