---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1620.25"
title: "29"
number: "1620.25"
heading: "Equalization of rates."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1620.25"
---

# §1620.25. Equalization of rates.


Under the express terms of the EPA, when a prohibited sex-based wage differential has been proved, an employer can come into compliance only by raising the wage rate of the lower paid sex. The rate-reduction provision of the EPA prohibits an employer from attempting to cure a violation by hiring or transferring employees to perform the previously lower-paid job at the lower rate. Similarly, the departure of the higher paid sex from positions where a violation occurred, leaving only members of the lower paid sex being paid equally among themselves, does not cure the EPA violations.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; sec. 10, 61 Stat. 84; Pub. L. 88-38, 77 Stat. 56 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. ); sec. 1, Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, 43 FR 19807; E.O. 12144, 44 FR 37193.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 29819, Aug. 20, 1986, unless otherwise noted.