How the report cards grade

Company report card

Method v1.1, Oct 23, 2026. Window: The last 5 complete years and the current year so far. Weights: by indicators with data; overall at most one letter above the lowest category (1.1).

Letters

Every score is rounded to a whole number (halves up) before its letter is chosen: 84.5 is 85, an A.

From indicators to grades

• A cause's score is the plain average of its indicators that have data.
• A category's score is the average of its graded causes and its related indicators, shown only when at least 2 indicators in it have data, or every indicator of the category that applies to the company, when fewer than 2 apply (Not covered ones do not apply).
• The overall grade is the average of the category scores, each category counting as many times as it has indicators with data, so a category resting on one fact counts less than one backed by many. It is at most one letter above the company's lowest category letter (a company with an F in any category gets a D at best, shown as 54). It is shown only when at least 4 categories and 8 indicators have data; otherwise the card says "Not enough public data for an overall grade".
• "Your grade" (members) uses the same arithmetic over the causes in your profile only, when at least 2 indicators behind them have data. It is computed when the page loads and never stored.
• "No records found" means the company is in the source's scope and has none: that is data. "Not covered" means the source does not reach this kind of company: never scored.
• Allegations (open labor charges, pending discrimination suits, consumer complaints) are shown as allegations and never lower a grade. Only resolved outcomes count.
• Counts are taken per 1,000 or 10,000 employees or per $1 billion of revenue; without that figure an indicator shows the raw count and is not scored.

Indicators

• C-LAB-1 Serious workplace-safety violations (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: OSHA violations of type serious, willful or repeat, plus fatality/catastrophe inspections, per 1,000 employees.
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 20 for each 0.5 per 1,000 (pro rata); willful or repeat counts double; floor 0.
• C-LAB-2 Wage theft found (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: Wage and Hour Division back wages and civil penalties per 1,000 employees.
  Rule: 100 at $0; 80 under $100; 60 under $1,000; 40 under $10,000; 20 under $100,000; else 0.
• C-LAB-2-OT Overtime back wages found (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: The overtime part of C-LAB-2: Wage and Hour Division overtime back wages per 1,000 employees.
  Rule: As C-LAB-2.
• C-LAB-3 Union-rights findings (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: NLRB unfair labor practice cases against the employer that ended in a settlement, an issued complaint or a Board/ALJ order. Open charges are shown and not scored.
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 15 per finding per 10,000 employees; floor 0.
• C-LAB-4 CEO pay ratio (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: Proxy statement, Item 402(u).
  Rule: 100 at 50:1 or lower; 0 at 500:1 or higher; straight line between.
• C-LAB-5 Median employee pay (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: Proxy statement, Item 402(u) median employee total pay, compared with the HHS poverty guideline for a household of four.
  Rule: 100 at 3 times the guideline or more; 0 at 1 time or less; straight line between.
• C-LAB-6 Mine-safety violations (mining companies only) (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: MSHA assessed violations per 1,000 employees.
  Rule: Same shape as C-LAB-1.
• C-ECO-1 Effective income-tax rate (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: XBRL income-tax expense divided by pre-tax income, 3-year average.
  Rule: 100 at 21% (the federal statutory rate) or above; 0 at 0% or below; straight line between.
• C-ECO-2 Political money and lobbying (shown, not graded) (Political institutions and democratic restructuring; shown, not graded)
  Inputs: Corporate PAC giving (FEC); lobbying spend and bills lobbied (Senate LDA), joined to the CSWH bill register's causes.
  Rule: Not scored. Shown as amounts and lists (decision D5).
• C-ECO-3 Antitrust and consumer-protection actions (Economic systems, wealth and labor)
  Inputs: DOJ Antitrust Division and FTC cases resolved against the company.
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 25 each; floor 0.
• C-EQ-1 Discrimination findings (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: EEOC suits resolved by consent decree or settlement, tagged by basis (race, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, disability, age, religion, national origin).
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 20 each, scaled per 10,000 employees; floor 0.
• C-EQ-1-RACE Discrimination findings: race (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: C-EQ-1 suits on the race basis.
  Rule: As C-EQ-1.
• C-EQ-1-SOGI Discrimination findings: sexual orientation and gender identity (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: C-EQ-1 suits on the sexual orientation or gender identity basis.
  Rule: As C-EQ-1.
• C-EQ-1-SEX Discrimination findings: sex (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: C-EQ-1 suits on the sex basis (pregnancy included).
  Rule: As C-EQ-1.
• C-EQ-2 Women in leadership (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: Share of women on the board and among named executive officers, from the proxy statement.
  Rule: 100 at 50% or more; 0 at 0%; straight line between.
• C-EQ-3 Publishes its EEO-1 workforce data (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: Yes or no, with a link to the company's own page (checked by hand each year).
  Rule: Yes = 100, no = 0.
• C-ENV-1 Federal environmental enforcement (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: EPA ICIS FE&C federal enforcement cases with penalties against the parent's facilities.
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 10 per case; a penalty over $1 million counts double; floor 0.
• C-ENV-2 Facilities in serious non-compliance now (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: Share of the parent's ECHO facilities flagged as significant violators.
  Rule: 100 at 0%; 0 at 25% or more; straight line between.
• C-ENV-3 Toxic releases (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: TRI on-site releases (pounds) per $1 billion of revenue.
  Rule: Banded by cut-points set from the first full run and fixed for method v1.0: 100 at zero, then 80, 60, 40 and 20 up to each cut-point, 0 above the last.
  The cut-points are set from the first full run and then fixed for this method version; until then this indicator is shown, not scored.
• C-ENV-4 Greenhouse-gas emissions (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: GHGRP direct emissions (tonnes CO2e) per $1 billion of revenue; shown as "reporting ended" if EPA ends the program.
  Rule: Banded as for C-ENV-3.
  Cut-points 3296.063, 19879.184, 115832.083, 502571.971, set Oct 28, 2026 from the first full run (496 companies).
• C-ENV-5 Fossil-fuel business (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: SIC code in oil and gas extraction, coal mining, refining or pipelines, or a GHGRP fuel-supplier report.
  Rule: Involved = 0, not involved = 100.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.
• C-ENV-6 Pollution near overburdened communities (Climate, energy and environmental policy)
  Inputs: Share of the parent's TRI/GHGRP facilities in areas above the national 80th percentile for low-income or people-of-color share (ECHO facility demographics).
  Rule: 100 at 0%; 0 at 50% or more; straight line between.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.
• C-ENV-7 Violations on or near tribal lands (Race, identity and social justice)
  Inputs: ECHO facilities on or near tribal lands (Facility and Tribal Spatial), joined to C-ENV-1.
  Rule: Scored like C-ENV-1.
• C-GOV-1 Immigration-enforcement contracts (Immigration and border policy)
  Inputs: USAspending obligations from ICE and CBP.
  Rule: 0 if detention or removal services, or over $10 million a year; 50 if any other; 100 if none.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.
• C-GOV-2 Prison and detention contracts (Criminal justice, policing and public safety)
  Inputs: USAspending obligations from the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service for detention.
  Rule: As C-GOV-1.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.
• C-GOV-3 Defense dependence (Foreign policy, military and international affairs)
  Inputs: Department of Defense obligations as a share of revenue.
  Rule: 100 at 0%; 0 at 25% or more; straight line between.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.
• C-FIN-1 Consumer-finance enforcement (Healthcare, education and social welfare)
  Inputs: CFPB enforcement actions. Complaint counts are shown, not scored.
  Rule: 100 at 0; minus 25 per action; floor 0.
• C-HLT-1 Private health-insurance business (Healthcare, education and social welfare)
  Inputs: SIC code 6324 (hospital and medical service plans).
  Rule: Involved = 0, not involved = 100.
  Graded based on the company's line of business.

C-LAB-5 uses the 2026 HHS poverty guideline for a household of four in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia: $33,000 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE: 2026 Poverty Guidelines).

Causes

27 causes are graded, 1 shown without a grade and 55 not graded, each with its reason. Wherever a company lobbied on a bill CSWH's bill list tags with a cause, the card lists it under that cause (shown, not graded).

Version history

• v1.0 (Oct 23, 2026): First published method: the indicators, thresholds and equal weights proposed on 2026-10-23 and approved as recommended (decisions D1-D14). To be revisited after the first full run with real numbers, as version 1.1 with a public change note (D12).
• v1.1 (Oct 23, 2026): After the first real run (19 of 25 companies graded A): the overall grade weights each category by how many indicators have data, so a category resting on one yes/no fact no longer counts as much as one backed by many records; and the overall grade is at most one letter above the company's lowest category grade (Scott 2026-10-23, 'Weight + cap').

Sources

• Company registry: SEC EDGAR, Wikidata and GLEIF (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Wikidata; GLEIF)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  The largest U.S. SEC filers by revenue (XBRL frames), with Wikidata (CC0) for the QID, aliases, subsidiaries and employee counts, GLEIF (CC0) for LEI parents and children, and each 10-K's Exhibit 21 subsidiaries.
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• NLRB unfair labor practice cases (National Labor Relations Board)
  Source last updated Oct 26, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Charges against employers (CA cases) from NLRB's Recent Charges and Petitions Filings report and case pages; the case search is not used (robots.txt disallows /search/). NLRB Bulk Data Policy (read 2026-10-23): "We ask, however, that bulk data extractions be scheduled for non-peak hours (between 11pm EST - 6am EST)"; "automated programs not run more than 5 concurrent requests from the same IP, or the total requests exceed 20 per 200ms." NLRB records are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105). Disclaimer: "While we try to keep the information timely and accurate, we make no guarantees."
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• SEC EDGAR XBRL financial data (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Income-tax expense and pre-tax income from each 10-K's XBRL data.
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• SEC EDGAR proxy statements (DEF 14A) (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 30 days
  CEO pay ratio and median employee pay (Item 402(u)) and the board's women share, read by fixed patterns; statements the patterns cannot read go to the hand-entry queue.
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• SEC EDGAR annual reports (10-K) (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 30 days
  The employee count stated in the 10-K's human-capital section.
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• OSHA inspections and violations (U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  All employers OSHA or a state plan reaches. Read from the complete datasets DOL publishes for download (data.dol.gov data catalog) and, for MSHA, MSHA's Open Government Data files; no key is needed. DOL data are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105); DOL's copyright page could not be read from this network (403), so a separate data licence is not verified.
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• Wage and Hour Division compliance actions (U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 30 days
  Concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005, updated quarterly; WHD publishes no page per case, so rows link to the dataset. Read from the complete datasets DOL publishes for download (data.dol.gov data catalog) and, for MSHA, MSHA's Open Government Data files; no key is needed. DOL data are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105); DOL's copyright page could not be read from this network (403), so a separate data licence is not verified.
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• MSHA assessed violations (U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Mines only; matched through MSHA's own record of each mine's controller. Read from the complete datasets DOL publishes for download (data.dol.gov data catalog) and, for MSHA, MSHA's Open Government Data files; no key is needed. DOL data are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105); DOL's copyright page could not be read from this network (403), so a separate data licence is not verified.
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• EEOC litigation press releases (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Lawsuits the EEOC filed and resolved, read from its newsroom list (no dataset of lawsuits exists; the newsroom search is not used because robots.txt disallows it). Charges settled before a lawsuit are left out. EEOC releases are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105). EEOC disclaimer (read 2026-10-23): "While we try to keep the information timely and accurate, we make no guarantees."
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• EPA ICIS federal enforcement and compliance cases (ECHO) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  Source last updated Oct 27, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Formal administrative and judicial federal cases, updated weekly by EPA. EPA: "the data quality before November 2000 has not been assessed and should be considered unknown". Cases are found by the defendant's name; cases against a subsidiary not in the company's list are not found.
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• EPA ECHO facility compliance and demographics (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  Loaded · refreshed every 7 days
  The company's TRI and GHGRP facilities as ECHO lists them now. ECHO no longer publishes a national-percentile flag for the area around a facility (EJScreen was withdrawn in 2025), so C-ENV-6 cannot be computed from it.
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• EPA Toxics Release Inventory (Envirofacts) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  Loaded · refreshed every 30 days
  Facilities report each year for the year before; the newest reporting year is used. The parent is the one each facility reports (EPA's standardized parent name where EPA has one).
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• EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (Envirofacts) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 30 days
  Each facility reports its highest-level U.S. parent companies with their ownership shares; a company is given its share of a facility's direct emissions. The newest year in Envirofacts is used (2023 on 2026-10-23). EPA proposed in 2025 to end reporting for most source categories.
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• USAspending.gov federal awards (U.S. Department of the Treasury (USAspending.gov))
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Contracts obligated by ICE and CBP, by the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service (detention), and by the Department of Defense, to recipients whose name is one of the company's names, and to their child recipients. Amounts are obligations per fiscal year as USAspending reports them.
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• FEC committee totals (corporate PACs) (Federal Election Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Corporate PACs connected to the company: what they gave to federal candidates' committees per two-year cycle. Committee and organization data only: individual contributors are never loaded.
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• Senate LDA.gov lobbying reports (U.S. Senate Office of Public Records (LDA.gov))
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Quarterly lobbying reports (LD-2) naming the company as client: the amount reported and the bills named. Shown, not graded; the forms do not say for or against. Data accessed from LDA.gov on the date shown.
  Terms of use
  "Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov"
• CFPB enforcement actions and consumer complaints (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Enforcement actions resolved by an order or judgment count; pending actions and consumer complaints are shown as allegations, never scored. The complaint database is not a statistical sample.
  Terms of use
• DOJ Antitrust Division and FTC cases (U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission)
  Source last updated Oct 28, 2026 · refreshed every 7 days
  Antitrust Division press releases and FTC cases naming the company. Resolved outcomes (guilty pleas, settlements, consent decrees, final judgments, closed FTC cases) count; lawsuits still pending are shown as allegations.
  Terms of use

LDA.gov: "Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov"

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