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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8714797" data-attributes="member: 2209">Doing a quick search the top hits I get on "<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=how+much+wage+theft+is+there+in+the+US&ia=web" target="_blank">how much wage theft is there in the US</a>"Estimates vary.<a href="https://socialjusticeresourcecenter.org/facts-and-figures/wage-theft/" target="_blank">Social Justice Resource Center</a> "Nationally it is estimated that workers are not paid at least $19 billion every year in overtime and that $40 billion to $60 billion is not paid due to all forms of wage theft. This compares to national annual losses of $340 million due to robbery, $4 billion due to burglary, $5 billion due to larceny, and $3 billion due to auto theft."<a href="https://www.epi.org/press/wage-theft-costs-american-workers-50-billion/" target="_blank">EPI</a> "Wage theft is a nationwide epidemic that costs American workers as much as $50 billion a year, a new Economic Policy Institute report finds. In <a href="https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/" target="_blank">An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year</a>, EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey and EPI intern Brady Meixell examine incidences of wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—across the country. The total amount of money recovered for the victims of wage theft who retained private lawyers or complained to federal or state agencies was at least $933 million in 2012, almost three times greater than all the money stolen in robberies that year. However, since most victims never report wage theft and never sue, the real cost of wage theft to workers is much greater, and could be closer to $50 billion a year." also "The authors also conducted a study of workers in low-wage industries in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles and found that in any given week, two-thirds experienced at least one pay-related violation.  They estimate that the average loss per worker over the course of a year was $2,634, out of total earnings of $17,616. The total annual wage theft from front-line workers in low-wage industries in the three cities approached $3 billion. If these findings are generalizable to the rest of the U.S. low-wage workforce of 30 million, wage theft is costing workers more than $50 billion a year."<a href="https://www.golanlaw.com/blog/2022/04/wage-theft-is-the-largest-form-of-theft-in-the-united-states/" target="_blank">Golan Law - Employee Rights Law Firm</a> "When you consider the most common form of theft, you may think of a whole range of activities, from grand theft auto to home invasions and burglaries. You may also think of different types of financial crime, such as a small business being victimized by theft.It is certainly true that these things happen, but none of them are the biggest type of theft in the United States. That “honor” goes to wage theft, which outpaces all of these other issues significantly. The financial impact on workers in the U.S. cannot be understated. Some estimates put it around <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national-politics/the-race/wage-theft-is-the-costliest-crime-in-america#:~:text=Wage%20theft%20is%20the%20costliest%20crime%20in%20the%20country.,%2C%20and%20other%20larcenies%E2%80%94combined." target="_blank">$15 billion annually</a>. "Here is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft" target="_blank">Wikipedia Wage Theft article.</a></blockquote>

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