# 2025-00118: Government Quietly Abandons Pay Transparency Rules for Federal Contractors

2025-00118, Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Federal Acquisition Regulation: Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-08, effective 2025-01-08; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00118
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00118
- Title: Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Federal Acquisition Regulation: Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-08
- Effective: 2025-01-08
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Government Quietly Abandons Pay Transparency Rules for Federal Contractors

## Summary

The government is pulling back a proposed rule that would have made federal contractors stop asking about job applicants' past pay and require them to share salary info in job ads. This change would have affected companies working with the government and aimed to boost pay fairness and openness. Since the rule is withdrawn as of January 8, 2025, no new pay transparency rules will take effect now, so no immediate money or hiring changes are coming.

## Abstract

DoD, GSA, and NASA are withdrawing the proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) titled: Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting. The Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP Administrator) is simultaneously withdrawing a proposed Government-wide policy, upon which the proposed rule was based.

## Effects PRIA read

- Federal contractor pay-rule withdrawn: benefit, medium. If your company works as a federal contractor or subcontractor, the proposed rule published January 30, 2024 that would have banned asking job applicants about prior pay and required salary disclosures in all job ads for work on or in connection with a Government contract was withdrawn on January 8…
- Job-applicant pay transparency not enacted: cost, medium. If you apply for jobs that involve work on or connected to a Government contract, the proposed protections — banning employers from seeking compensation history and requiring pay to be listed in job ads — will not take effect because the proposal was withdrawn on January 8, 2025. That means applica…

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## Sources
- [2025-00118 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/08/2025-00118/office-of-federal-procurement-policy-federal-acquisition-regulation-pay-equity-and-transparency-in)
- [2025-00118 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-08/pdf/2025-00118.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00118 (as of 2026-06-11).