I know when you can start filing EEO-1 Component 1 Data. Here’s a hint: 🎃🍬🍫

Yes, soon after I start recycling old blog posts next month about the liability risks that employees and their poor costume choices present for employers, all private-sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting specific criteria can start submitting demographic workforce data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the EEOC.

The 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, along with its help desk. The deadline to file the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 report is Tuesday, December 5, 2023.

The EEOC will provide updates about 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection, including the updated 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet and the updated 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Data File Upload Specifications, at www.eeocdata.org/eeo1 as they become available. The EEOC anticipates posting the updated 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet for filers on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. The EEOC anticipates posting the updated 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Data File Upload Specifications for filers on Wednesday, September 13, 2023.

If you can’t wait until tomorrow, here are some cached copies of materials from prior years:

• An instruction booklet
• An FAQ
• Some fact sheets
• The EEO-1 Component 1 Job Classification Guide 
• The law that requires EEO-1s

Better yet, wait the extra day, nerd.