Data · Charge deadlines
Employment-discrimination charge deadlines
The time limits to file a charge of employment discrimination, federal and by state, in the words of the law. Each row is one rule from one official document, with the link and the exact sentence it comes from, re-checked against the document each time we refresh.
What is in this dataset?
How long a worker has to file a charge of employment discrimination: the EEOC's 180-day limit and its 300-day extension, and the limit each covered state's own statute sets for its civil-rights agency. One row per rule, with the statute citation, the official document's URL and the verbatim quote (25 words or fewer) that carries the number.
Use it to see which charge-filing window applies in a state and to quote it with its source. The federal limit is the EEOC's own page; a state row is the statute's words or the state agency's own statement of its limit. Where a state law sets one limit for its agency and another for court, the row is about the agency charge only. Check the note on a row for exceptions the statute lists.
- Records
- 37
- Look up by
- 36
- state
- Primary-source records
- 37
The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.
Where does the data come from?
Each rule is read once in the official text (the EEOC's page or the legislature's or code revisor's statute page, or the state civil-rights agency's own page); the sentence that carries the number is stored as a verbatim quote and re-found in the live document at each refresh. A row that fails the re-check stops the write.
- Period covered
- October 29, 2026
- Places
- States
- How often we refresh it
- Every quarter
- Records read
- October 29, 2026
Official sources
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Arizona Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Florida Commission on Human Relations, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Idaho Human Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Illinois Department of Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Maine Human Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Minnesota Department of Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Missouri Commission on Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Montana Department of Labor and Industry, Human Rights Bureau, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Ohio Civil Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- South Carolina Human Affairs Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Washington State Human Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Equal Rights Division, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Kansas Human Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- California Civil Rights Department, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Colorado Civil Rights Division, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- D.C. Office of Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Hawai'i Civil Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Iowa Office of Civil Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Indiana Civil Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Michigan Department of Civil Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- North Dakota Department of Labor and Human Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Nevada Equal Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Tennessee Attorney General, Civil Rights Enforcement Division, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- West Virginia Human Rights Commission, by official web pages. Statute or agency text published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
The sources the records cite most
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Time Limits For Filing A Charge (EEOC): 2 records
- Alaska State Commission for Human Rights: Complaints (Alaska State Commission for Human Rights): 1 record
- Arizona Attorney General, Civil Rights Division: Arizona Revised Statutes 41-1481: 1 record
- California Civil Rights Department: Complaint Process (California Civil Rights Department): 1 record
- Colorado Civil Rights Division: Complaint Process (Colorado Civil Rights Division): 1 record
What does a record look like?
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United States: time to file a federal charge of discrimination: 180 calendar days (EEOC, Time Limits For Filing A Charge). The EEOC extends this to 300 calendar days when a state or local agency enforces a law against discrimination on the same basis.
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Time Limits For Filing A Charge (EEOC)
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Illinois: time to file a charge of employment discrimination with the state agency: 2 years (775 ILCS 5/7A-102(A)(1)).
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: Illinois Department of Human Rights: Illinois Human Rights Act, section 7A-102
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Massachusetts: time to file a charge of employment discrimination with the state agency: 300 days (G.L. c. 151B, 5).
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination: Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 151B, section 5
The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.
What each of the 13 main columns means
jurisdiction- Two-letter state code, or US for the federal rule
agency- The agency that takes the charge
measure- federal-charge-deadline, federal-charge-deadline-extended or state-charge-deadline
period- current law
value- The number of the limit
unit- days, calendar days, months or years
valueText- The limit as the source words it
cite- The statute section or EEOC page
quote- The verbatim words (25 or fewer) that carry the limit
document- The statute or page
documentUrl- Where it is
verified- The date the quote was last found in the document
note- Exceptions the same text lists, where they matter
How do I use it in my own tools?
chargedeadlines_lookup- For one two-letter state code (or US): the deadline to file an employment-discrimination charge, with the statute, URL and verbatim quote.
chargedeadlines_compare- Charge-filing deadlines for up to 10 states side by side, each with the agency, the statute and the quote.
chargedeadlines_search- Rows whose text matches the words given, such as a state, an agency or a statute ("300 days").
How to cite this dataset
You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.
- Version
- 1.0.0, released October 29, 2026
- Every version
- 10.5281/zenodo.23782860 (always points to the newest)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Download the data
- CSV: charge-deadlines.csv 30 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt)
- JSON: charge-deadlines.json 59 KB · every record with its sources
Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and Zenodo, a public research archive.
Suggested citation
Probative. (2026). Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861
Credit line for a chart, table or article
Source: Probative, Deadlines to file an employment-discrimination charge: the federal EEOC limit and each state agency's own limit, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23782861, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Not legal advice. These are the time limits as the statutes and the EEOC state them, kept for research and marketing planning. Deadlines have exceptions and change; a worker should ask a lawyer or the agency about a particular case.
What changed recently?
- 2026-10-29 · 37 rows covering 35 states and the federal rule, each from one official document with its URL and quote. (source)
- 2026-10-29 · 23 rows covering 21 states and the federal rule, each from one official document with its URL and quote. (source)
- 2026-10-28 · 21 rows covering 19 states and the federal rule, each from one official document with its URL and quote. (source)
The full log is in changes.json.
What are the limits?
- The table covers the federal rule and the states listed, each read in its statute or on its civil-rights agency's own page. Every row carries the exact sentence it rests on, so a reader can check it in one click.
- A row is the time limit for a charge with the state's civil-rights agency. Limits for going to court, and exceptions such as continuing violations or tolling, are separate rules; a row's note lists the exceptions the same section states.
- The federal limit is 180 calendar days, extended to 300 where a state or local agency enforces a law on the same basis. The EEOC's page is the source, not a summary.
- A statute can be amended. The date on each row is when we last found the quote in the document; the correction log shows any change we make.
- Records older than 130 days since their last check are marked
stalein the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.
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