[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 29, Volume 4] [Revised as of July 1, 2008] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 29CFR1620.22] [Page 319] TITLE 29--LABOR CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION PART 1620_THE EQUAL PAY ACT--Table of Contents Sec. 1620.22 Employment cost not a ``factor other than sex.'' A wage differential based on claimed differences between the average cost of employing workers of one sex as a group and the average cost of employing workers of the opposite sex as a group is discriminatory and does not qualify as a differential based on any ``factor other than sex,'' and will result in a violation of the equal pay provisions, if the equal pay standard otherwise applies.