Table 2

State DOL wage and hour enforcement investigative staff

State Number of investigators Workforce Number of businesses Number of workers per investigator Number of businesses per investigator
Maine 4 616,707 53,437 154,177 13,359
Massachusetts 19 3,587,286 256,911 188,805 13,522
New York 145 9,459,334 643,954 65,237 4,441
Oregon 35 1,922,239 154,268 54,921 4,408
Vermont* 3 312,073 25,615 104,024 8,538
Washington 55 3,372,153 246,264 61,312 4,478

Note: Number of investigators indicates number of staff that primarily engages in investigative activities.

 

Source: EPI survey of state labor departments; employment and establishment data are from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), using averages from Q4 of 2017 and Q1-Q3 of 2018 to calculate FY 2018 data.

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