Business and Financial Operations · Holland code ECS

Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers

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 called: Affirmative Action Officer (AA Officer), Civil Rights Investigator, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer (EEO Officer), Equal Opportunity Specialist, Civil Rights Representative, Complaint Investigations Officer, Equal Employment Opportunity Representative (EEO Representative).

O*NET 13-1041.03

At a glance

US median annual pay: $80,730; Middle half earn $61,280 to $109,010. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Most common education: Bachelor's Degree; 66% of workers surveyed by O*NET report this level.
Preparation needed: Job Zone 4 of 5; Considerable preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.
US employment outlook, 2024 to 2034: +3% · As fast as average; 418,000 jobs in 2024, projected 430,300. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which groups this with similar roles as "Compliance officers".

What the work involves

The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.

Investigate employment practices or alleged violations of laws to document and correct discriminatory factors.
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.
Interpret civil rights laws and equal opportunity regulations for individuals or employers.
Meet with persons involved in equal opportunity complaints to arbitrate and settle disputes.
Develop guidelines for nondiscriminatory employment practices.
Prepare reports of selection, survey, or other statistics and recommendations for corrective action.

Skills and knowledge it leans on

Skills

Active Listening4.3 / 5
Reading Comprehension4.1 / 5
Speaking4.0 / 5
Critical Thinking4.0 / 5
Writing3.9 / 5
Active Learning3.8 / 5

Knowledge areas

Law and Government4.4 / 5
English Language4.0 / 5
Personnel and Human Resources3.9 / 5
Customer and Personal Service3.8 / 5
Sociology and Anthropology3.4 / 5
Administration and Management3.3 / 5

Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.

Who tends to enjoy it

How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.

Realistic4
Investigative34
Artistic12
Social54
Enterprising73
Conventional70

The same work abroad

Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.

European occupation titles (ESCO)

equality and inclusion manager · DE Beauftragter für Gleichstellung und Inklusion/Beauftragte für Gleichstellung und Inklusion · FR responsable diversité et inclusion
labour market policy officer · DE Referent für Arbeitsmarktpolitik/Referentin für Arbeitsmarktpolitik · FR chargé de mission marché du travail/chargée de mission marché du travail
legal policy officer · DE Referent für Rechtsfragen/Referentin für Rechtsfragen · FR chargé de mission affaires juridiques/chargée de mission affaires juridiques
foreign affairs officer · DE Referent für Außenpolitik/Referentin für Außenpolitik · FR chargé de mission aux affaires étrangères/chargée de mission aux affaires étrangères
immigration policy officer · DE Referent für Migrationsfragen/Referentin für Migrationsfragen · FR chargé de mission dans le domaine de l’immigration/chargée de mission dans le domaine de l’immigration
international relations officer · DE Mitarbeiter im Bereich internationale Beziehungen/Mitarbeiterin im Bereich internationale Beziehungen · FR chargé de mission aux relations internationales/chargée de mission aux relations internationales

Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)

Human resource managers and directors (1136)229,100 employed
Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. (2439)104,500 employed
Human resources and industrial relations officers (3571)196,000 employed

Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.

Pay across Europe, for the whole group

Median annual earnings of all employees in “Professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.

Median annual earnings, Professionals, by country
Country	Median pay
Belgium	€61,714
Germany	€59,529
Ireland	€56,877
Austria	€55,374
Netherlands	€53,595
Sweden	€43,567
France	€41,515
Spain	€35,735
Italy	€33,649
Portugal	€26,072
Poland	€14,380

Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.

Exposure to AI

This occupation sits in the middle third of the 774 occupations scored, with an exposure score of +0.70. The scores are standardized across those occupations, so 0 is the average and a score of 1 is about one standard deviation above it.

Our note on reading it: the dataset links AI applications to the abilities that occupations require, so the score reflects overlap between the two. It is a comparison between occupations, not a forecast about jobs. It does not say whether exposure means tasks are replaced or workers get more done with the tools, and it says little about one employer or one role.

Source: Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195-2217. Matched to this page by 6-digit SOC code (13-1041).

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