What is the 30/5 rule for Similarly Situated Employee Groups (SSEGs)?
Under the Voluntary Guidelines, OFCCP defines a Similarly Situated Employee Group (SSEG) as a grouping of employees who perform similar work, and occupy positions with similar responsibility levels and involving similar skills and qualifications. The 30/5 rule refers to the requirement that each SSEG to be statistically-evaluated must be comprised of at least 30 employees, including five or more employees of each group being compared. Contractors should use non-statistical methods to evaluate the compensation of employee groupings that do not meet the 30/5 Rule. The example below applies the 30/5 Rule to two different groupings of similarly-situated employees.
