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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Charges (Charges filed with EEOC) (includes concurrent charges with ADEA, ADA, EPA, and GINA) FY 1997 - FY 2022

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

Receipts include all charges filed under Title VII as well as those filed concurrently under the ADA, ADEA, 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 58,615 58,124 57,582 59,588 59,631 61,459 59,075 58,328 55,976 56,155 61,159 69,064 68,710 73,058 71,914 71,578 67,558 63,589 63,900 65,090 59,466 53,694 51,109 46,158 41,764 53,666
Resolutions 62,533 60,888 59,085 57,136 54,549 56,392 52,227 51,355 46,885 44,228 53,631 58,104 64,304 77,644 82,980 79,310 70,175 63,061 66,046 69,673 70,405 63,948  57,285 49,206 42,683 45,840
Resolutions By Type                                                    
Settlements 2,272 2,657 3,748 4,828 4,493 5,362 5,215 5,365 4,991 5,165 6,423 6,416 6,292 7,024 7,251 6,675 5,927 5,094 5,467 4,927 4,242 3,574 3,512 3,603 3,666 3,882
  3.6% 4.4% 6.3% 8.5% 8.2% 9.5% 10.0% 10.4% 10.6% 11.7% 12.0% 11.0% 9.8% 9.0% 8.7% 8.4% 8.4% 8.1% 8.3% 7.1% 6.0% 5.6% 6.1% 7.3% 8.6% 8.5%
Withdrawals w/Benefits 1,924 1,767 2,084 2,251 2,201 2,188 2,188 2,151 2,405 2,373 2,907 3,427 3,542 3,746 3,850 3,658 3,663 3,416 3,475 3,669 3,469 3,434 3,243 3,190 2,992 3,270
  3.1% 2.9% 3.5% 3.9% 4.0% 3.9% 4.2% 4.2% 5.1% 5.4% 5.4% 5.9% 5.5% 4.8% 4.6% 4.6% 5.2% 5.4% 5.3% 5.3% 4.9% 5.4%  5.7% 6.5% 7.0% 7.1%
Administrative Closures 17,405 16,114 14,265 11,439 10,766 9,791 9,225 8,563 7,255 7,143 9,475 9,827 12,104 12,790 13,372 11,811 11,108 10,487 10,862 11,040 10,475 8,998 8,648 7,982 7,495 9,421
  27.8% 26.5% 24.1% 20.0% 19.7% 17.4% 17.7% 16.7% 15.5% 16.2% 17.7% 16.9% 18.8% 16.5% 16.1% 14.9% 15.8% 16.6% 16.4% 15.8% 14.9% 14.1%  15.1% 16.2% 17.6% 20.6%
No Reasonable Cause 38,731 37,792 35,614 33,822 32,075 34,671 32,418 32,646 29,344 27,178 32,123 35,695 39,418 50,290 55,314 54,197 47,062 42,295 44,259 48,162 50,305 45,877  40,355 33,207 27,516 28,359
  61.9% 62.1% 60.3% 59.2% 58.8% 61.5% 62.1% 63.6% 62.6% 61.4% 59.9% 61.4% 61.3% 64.8% 66.7% 68.3% 67.1% 67.1% 67.0% 69.1% 71.5% 71.7%  70.4% 67.5% 64.5% 61.9%
Reasonable Cause 2,201 2,558 3,374 4,796 5,014 4,380 3,181 2,630 2,890 2,426 2,703 2,739 2,948 3,794 3,193 2,969 2,415 1,769 1,983 1,875 1,914 2,065  1,527 1,224 1,014 908
  3.5% 4.2% 5.7% 8.4% 9.2% 7.8% 6.1% 5.1% 6.2% 5.5% 5.0% 4.7% 4.6% 4.9% 3.8% 3.7% 3.4% 2.8% 3.0% 2.7% 2.7% 3.2%  2.7% 2.5% 2.4% 2.0%
Successful Conciliations 568 671 859 1,091 1,177 1,060 747 697 788 618 840 841 905 996 946 1,070 985 631 741 764 719 852  569 504 398 398
  0.9% 1.1% 1.5% 1.9% 2.2% 1.9% 1.4% 1.4% 1.7% 1.4% 1.6% 1.4% 1.4% 1.3% 1.1% 1.3% 1.4% 1.0% 1.1% 1.1% 1.0% 1.3%  1.0% 1.0% 0.9% 0.9%
Unsuccessful Conciliations 1,633 1,887 2,515 3,705 3,837 3,320 2,434 1,933 2,102 1,808 1,863 1,898 2,043 2,798 2,247 1,899 1,430 1,138 1,242 1,111 1,195 1,213  958 720 616 510
  2.6% 3.1% 4.3% 6.5% 7.0% 5.9% 4.7% 3.8% 4.5% 4.1% 3.5% 3.3% 3.2% 3.6% 2.7% 2.4% 2.0% 1.8% 1.9% 1.6% 1.7% 1.9%  1.7% 1.5% 1.4% 1.1%
Merit Resolutions 6,397 6,982 9,206 11,875 11,708 11,930 10,584 10,146 10,286 9,964 12,033 12,582 12,782 14,564 14,294 13,302 12,005 10,279 10,925 10,471 9,625 9,073 8,282 8,017 7,672 8,060
  10.2% 11.5% 15.6% 20.8% 21.5% 21.2% 20.3% 19.8% 21.9% 22.5% 22.4% 21.7% 19.9% 18.8% 17.2% 16.8% 17.1% 16.3% 16.5% 15.0% 13.7% 14.2%  14.5% 16.3% 18.0% 17.6%
Monetary Benefits (Millions)* $88.7 $78.0 $113.1 $142.4 $141.1 $141.7 $138.7 $128.6 $146.0 $126.5 $220.0 $201.4 $214.4 $229.8 $247.8 $258.6 $255.9 $197.9 $230.5 $224.5 $234.0 $233.7  $244.7 $234.0 $246.9 $231.7

* In FY 2022, there was a significant increase in vaccine-related charges filed on the basis of religion. As a result, FY 2022 data may vary compared to previous years.

** 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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