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title: "Equal Opportunity Representative and Officer"
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# Equal Opportunity Representative and Officer

**Category:** Business and Financial Operations · **SOC code:** 13-1041 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 13-1041.03

Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

Also advertised as: Affirmative Action Officer (AA Officer); Civil Rights Investigator; Civil Rights Representative; Complaint Investigations Officer; Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (EEO Officer); Equal Employment Opportunity Representative (EEO Representative); Equal Opportunity Specialist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $80,730 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $38.81/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $48,220 to $133,720, with the middle half between $61,280 and $109,010
- **Total US employment:** 417,070
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.0% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 33,300 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 18/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 417,070 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $48,220 |
| 25th | $61,280 |
| 50th (median) | $80,730 |
| 75th | $109,010 |
| 90th | $133,720 |
| Mean (average) | $88,400 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $111,030 | $101,027 | 4,380 |
| MA | $102,060 | $96,504 | 13,190 |
| NJ | $100,000 | $91,908 | 13,310 |
| CA | $96,980 | $87,590 | 49,880 |
| CT | $91,810 | $88,611 | 3,610 |
| DE | $91,050 | $91,225 | 2,150 |
| VT | $90,420 | $92,305 | 1,960 |
| NY | $90,080 | $83,468 | 23,500 |
| WA | $88,790 | $82,971 | 11,130 |
| RI | $87,620 | $85,667 | 970 |
| MN | $85,920 | $87,121 | 6,140 |
| PA | $85,580 | $87,710 | 19,810 |
| MD | $84,720 | $80,717 | 10,100 |
| ME | $83,740 | $86,285 | 1,790 |
| OR | $82,990 | $80,291 | 5,360 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/equal-opportunity-representative-and-officer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/equal-opportunity-representative-and-officer.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 418,000 in the 2024–2034 base year to 430,300 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 12,300 jobs, or +3.0%. About as fast as average: 3.0% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 33,300 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 65.8% |
| Some College Courses | 14.1% |
| Master's Degree | 11.9% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 4.4% |
| First Professional Degree | 2.8% |
| Post-Master's Certificate | 1.1% |

## What the work involves

- Investigate employment practices or alleged violations of laws to document and correct discriminatory factors.
- Interpret civil rights laws and equal opportunity regulations for individuals or employers.
- Prepare reports related to investigations of equal opportunity complaints.
- Interview persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to verify case information.
- Study equal opportunity complaints to clarify issues.
- Monitor the implementation and impact of guidelines for nondiscriminatory employment practices.
- Meet with persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to arbitrate and settle disputes.
- Conduct surveys and evaluate findings to determine if systematic discrimination exists.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Law and Government — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Personnel and Human Resources — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Sociology and Anthropology — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Written Comprehension — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Enterprising (E), Conventional (C), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 5.37 |
| C — Conventional | 5.21 |
| S — Social | 4.24 |
| I — Investigative | 3.01 |
| A — Artistic | 1.73 |
| R — Realistic | 1.23 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESFJ | 77.6 |
| ESTJ | 71.6 |
| ENFJ | 66.9 |
| ENTJ | 61.7 |
| ISFJ | 60.1 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Labor Relations Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/labor-relations-specialist) — median $95,420
- [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager) — median $149,280
- [Eligibility Interviewer, Government Programs](https://nuecareer.com/careers/eligibility-interviewer-government-programs) — median $54,210
- [Human Resources Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-specialist) — median $75,940
- [Compliance Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compliance-manager) — median $141,900
- [Arbitrator, Mediator, and Conciliator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/arbitrator-mediator-and-conciliator) — median $75,530
- [Compensation, Benefit, and Job Analysis Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compensation-benefit-and-job-analysis-specialist) — median $78,210
- [Human Resources Assistant, Except Payroll and Timekeeping](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-assistant) — median $50,610
- [Compliance Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compliance-officer) — median $80,730
- [Regulatory Affairs Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/regulatory-affairs-specialist) — median $80,730

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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