Sector targets · Gap analysis · EE planning
Know where you stand against your sector targets, long before anything is due.
EquityFlowSA is where the Employment Equity work actually happens. Classify your workforce, measure the real gap against your gazetted sector targets, set planned targets you can defend, and produce the completed forms at the end. Built for South African employers, and for the consultants who carry a portfolio of them.
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Illustrative figures. Your own file shows your workforce measured against your sector's 2025 to 2030 targets.
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Employment Equity gap calculator
Enter your headcount by occupational level and see your gap against your sector's gazetted 2025 to 2030 targets, in about two minutes. It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, and you are not asked for an email address.
The problem
The hard part was never the form. It is knowing what the numbers mean.
The data is scattered
Payroll in one system, demographics in another, last cycle's numbers somewhere in an inbox. Most of the work is reconciliation, and none of it tells you whether you are behind.
The classification decides everything
One occupational level put in the wrong row and every number downstream is wrong, usually discovered in the week it is due.
The stakes went up
2026 is the first cycle in which the Department measures actual progress against the sectoral numerical targets, not just whether you filed. Penalties start at R1.5 million or 2% of turnover, whichever is greater.
How it works
Three steps from payroll data to a position you can defend.
Bring in your workforce data
Upload your payroll export or capture staff directly. Every employee is mapped to the right occupational level, race, gender and disability category, with the classification guided so it holds up.
Measure the gap
See exactly where you stand against your sector's 2025 to 2030 numerical targets, level by level, including the 3% disability target. Not at the end, when nothing can be done about it, but while there is still a year to act.
Plan, then produce
Set your own planned targets against that gap, record the barriers and the measures that answer them, and produce the completed EEA2 and EEA4 for sign off. You upload to the Department's EE Online portal yourself.
Who it is for
Whether you carry one organisation or twenty.
I am responsible for my own organisation
You are the HR manager, the EE committee chair, or the person who got handed the file. Take one organisation from raw payroll data to a defensible position and a signed off submission, without first becoming an expert in the Act.
Start free →I carry a portfolio of clients
You do the same work for several employers and repeat it every cycle. Manage every client organisation from one login, with separate data, separate analysis, and one view of who is still outstanding.
See consultant pricing →Scope
Everything the 2026 cycle asks of you.
EEA2 Employment Equity Report. Workforce profile, movements, progress against targets.EEA4 Income Differential Statement. Across all occupational levels.EEA12 barrier analysis and the EE Plan. Barriers, the measures that answer them, and planned targets you set yourself.Data handling
Your employee data, handled properly.
Employment Equity work means handling some of the most sensitive data your organisation holds: salaries, demographics, disability status. That deserves more than a privacy policy nobody reads.
Pricing
Priced per client file, not per feature.
Every plan produces every form. An incomplete Employment Equity submission is a non compliant one, so there is no cut down tier.
An employer doing its own reporting, or a consultant with one client.
- ✓ 1 client file
- ✓ EEA2 and EEA4 in full
- ✓ Sector target tracking
- ✓ R2 950 a year, ten months' money for twelve
A small practice filing for several client organisations.
- ✓ 5 client files, each kept separate
- ✓ Everything in Solo
- ✓ One view of who is still outstanding
- ✓ R8 950 a year, ten months' money for twelve
A practice carrying a portfolio, with more files available as it grows.
- ✓ 15 client files
- ✓ Additional files at R95 each per month
- ✓ Everything in Practice
- ✓ R18 950 a year, ten months' money for twelve
The demo walkthrough is free for as long as you want it, with no card and no time limit. You subscribe when you want a client file of your own. Secure payment via PayFast. All prices are in South African Rand and are the final price: EquityFlowSA is not registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged. See the Terms and Conditions, Cancellation and Refund policies.
Questions
The things employers ask first.
Do I have to submit an Employment Equity report?
If you employ 50 or more people, yes, regardless of turnover. Since January 2025 the turnover test no longer applies and headcount alone decides. Organs of state report whatever their size. If you crossed 50 employees at any point during the reporting period you are designated for that cycle, even if headcount has since dropped.
When are the 2026 deadlines?
The season opened on 1 September 2026. Manual submissions close 1 October 2026. Online submissions through the Department's portal close at midnight on 15 January 2027.
So the real deadline is 15 January?
On paper, yes. In practice, no. Practitioners finalise before 1 December, because the people who have to sign a submission are on leave from mid December into January. A form that needs a signature on 6 January often does not get one. If you are working to 15 January, you are working to a date that will move without telling you.
What happens if I do not submit?
Fines start at R1.5 million or 2% of annual turnover, whichever is greater, and escalate for repeat non compliance. You also cannot obtain a Section 53 compliance certificate, which means you cannot contract with the state.
Does this replace the Department's EE Online system?
No, and it is not meant to. EquityFlowSA is where the analysis and the planning are done and where the completed EEA2 and EEA4 are produced. Submission still happens on the Department's EE Online portal, and you upload there yourself. Nothing is filed with the Department on your behalf.
Is my employee data safe?
No employee names and no identity numbers are held anywhere in the system, only the headcounts and remuneration figures the EEA forms require. Data is encrypted in transit, and accounts are separated by the database itself, so one account cannot read another. Client organisations are kept entirely separate from one another. The Privacy Policy sets out where data is hosted, how long it is kept, and who can see it.
I am a consultant filing for several companies, does that work?
Yes. Each client organisation is a separate file with its own data and its own report, managed from one login. Practice holds five files, Consultancy fifteen, with more available at R95 each per month.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes, and there is no clock on it. Every account gets a complete worked demo client, free for as long as you like, with no card required. Walk the whole process on it, come back to it in three months, use it to train someone. You subscribe only when you want to open a client file of your own, and nothing you did in the demo is lost when you do.
The season is open
Find out where you stand, today.
Manual submissions close 1 October 2026 · Practitioners finalise by 1 December · Online closes 15 January 2027
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