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Age Discrimination in Employment Act (Charges filed with EEOC) (includes concurrent charges with Title VII, ADA, EPA, and GINA) FY 1997 - FY 2022

The following chart represents the total number of charges filed and resolved under the ADEA.

Receipts include all charges filed under the ADEA as well as those filed concurrently under Title VII, ADA, EPA and/or GINA. Therefore, the sum of receipts for all statutes will exceed total charges received.

The data are compiled by the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics from data reported via the quarterly reconciled Data Summary Reports and compiled from EEOC's Charge Data System and, from FY 2004 forward, EEOC's Integrated Mission System.

This does not include charges filed with state or local Fair Employment Practices Agencies.

  FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2005 FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022
Receipts 15,785 15,191 14,141 16,008 17,405 19,921 19,124 17,837 16,585 16,548 19,103 24,582 22,778 23,264 23,465 22,857 21,396 20,588 20,144 20,857 18,376 16,911 15,573 14,183 12,965 11,500
Resolutions 18,279 15,995 15,448 14,672 15,155 18,673 17,352 15,792 14,076 14,146 16,134 21,415 20,529 24,800 26,080 27,335 22,371 20,148 21,273 22,594 22,430 19,943 17,147 15,344 13,060 12,082
Resolutions by Type                                                    
Settlements 642 755 816 1,156 1,006 1,222 1,285 1,377 1,326 1,417 1,795 1,974 1,935 2,250 2,231 2,001 1,781 1,567 1,703 1,445 1,288 920 933 981 979 794
  3.5% 4.7% 5.3% 7.9% 6.6% 6.5% 7.4% 8.7% 9.4% 10.0% 11.1% 9.2% 9.4% 9.1% 8.6% 7.3% 8.0% 7.8% 8.0% 6.4% 5.7% 4.6% 5.4% 6.4% 7.5% 6.6%
Withdrawals w/Benefits 762 580 578 560 551 671 710 787 764 767 958 1,252 1,161 1,322 1,369 1,280 1,296 1,251 1,279 1,252 1,181 1,084 994 985 983 877
  4.2% 3.6% 3.7% 3.8% 3.6% 3.6% 4.1% 5.0% 5.4% 5.4% 5.9% 5.8% 5.7% 5.3% 5.2% 4.7% 5.8% 6.2% 6.0% 5.5% 5.3% 5.4% 5.8% 6.4% 7.5% 7.3%
Administrative Closures 4,986 4,175 3,601 3,232 3,963 6,254 2,824 3,550 2,537 2,639 2,754 6,387 4,031 4,167 4,230 4,045 3,642 3,619 3,700 3,729 3,596 2,965 2,416 2,274 2,210 2,099
  27.3% 26.1% 23.3% 22.0% 26.1% 33.5% 16.3% 22.5% 18.0% 18.7% 17.1% 29.8% 19.6% 16.8% 16.2% 14.8% 16.3% 18.0% 17.4% 16.5% 16.0% 14.9% 14.1% 14.8% 16.9% 17.4%
No Reasonable Cause 11,163 9,863 9,172 8,517 8,388 9,725 11,976 9,563 8,866 8,746 10,002 11,124 12,788 16,308 17,454 19,239 15,113 13,159 13,980 15,548 15,880 14,491 12,412 10,710 8,516 8,101
  61.1% 61.7% 59.4% 58.0% 55.3% 52.1% 69.0% 60.6% 63.0% 61.8% 62.0% 51.9% 62.3% 65.8% 66.9% 70.4% 67.6% 65.3% 65.7% 68.8% 70.8% 72.7% 72.4% 69.8% 65.2% 67.1%
Reasonable Cause 726 622 1,281 1,207 1,247 801 557 515 583 612 625 678 614 753 796 770 539 552 611 620 485 483 392 384 372 211
  4.0% 3.9% 8.3% 8.2% 8.2% 4.3% 3.2% 3.3% 4.1% 4.3% 3.9% 3.2% 3.0% 3.0% 3.1% 2.8% 2.4% 2.7% 2.9% 2.7% 2.2% 2.4% 2.3% 2.5% 2.8% 1.7%
Successful Conciliations 74 119 184 241 409 208 166 139 169 177 186 220 202 252 273 343 221 232 321 339 202 189 186 150 179 94
  0.4% 0.7% 1.2% 1.6% 2.7% 1.1% 1.0% 0.9% 1.2% 1.3% 1.2% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.3% 1.0% 1.2% 1.5% 1.5% 0.9% 0.9% 1.1% 1.0% 1.4% 0.8%
Unsuccessful Conciliations 652 503 1,097 966 838 593 391 376 414 435 439 458 412 501 523 427 318 320 290 281 283 294 206 234 193 117
  3.6% 3.1% 7.1% 6.6% 5.5% 3.2% 2.3% 2.4% 2.9% 3.1% 2.7% 2.1% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 1.6% 1.4% 1.6% 1.4% 1.2% 1.3% 1.5% 1.2% 1.5% 1.5% 1.0%
Merit Resolutions 2,130 1,957 2,675 2,923 2,804 2,694 2,552 2,679 2,673 2,796 3,378 3,904 3,710 4,325 4,396 4,051 3,616 3,370 3,593 3,317 2,954 2,487 2,319 2,350 2,334 1,882
  11.7% 12.2% 17.3% 19.9% 18.5% 14.4% 14.7% 17.0% 19.0% 19.8% 20.9% 18.2% 18.1% 17.4% 16.9% 14.8% 16.2% 16.7% 16.9% 14.7% 13.2% 12.5% 13.5% 15.3% 17.9% 15.6%
Monetary Benefits (Millions)* $44.3 $34.7 $38.6 $45.2 $53.7 $55.7 $48.9 $69.0 $77.7 $51.5 $66.8 $82.8 $72.1 $93.6 $95.2 $91.6 $97.9 $77.7 $99.1 $88.2 $90.1 $77.0 $75.7 $76.3 $83.8 $69.4

* Does not include monetary benefits obtained through litigation.

The total of individual percentages may not always sum to 100% due to rounding.

EEOC total workload includes charges carried over from previous fiscal years, new charge receipts and charges transferred to EEOC from Fair Employment Practice Agencies (FEPAs). Resolution of charges each year may therefore exceed receipts for that year because workload being resolved is drawn from a combination of pending, new receipts and FEPA transfer charges rather than from new charges only.

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