Chart: Attempted preemption of Miami’s wage theft ordinance would worsen the widespread problem of minimum wage violations: Number of workers experiencing minimum wage violations in Miami-Dade County and Florida

Table 10

Attempted preemption of Miami’s wage theft ordinance would worsen the widespread problem of minimum wage violations: Number of workers experiencing minimum wage violations in Miami-Dade County and Florida

	Number of workers experiencing minimum wage violations
	Florida statewide	Miami-Dade County
All	456,177	44,914
Gender
Men	232,194	22,996
Women	223,983	21,918
Race/ethnicity
White	232,194	5,210
Black	72,076	6,243
Latinx	128,642	32,338
AAPI/other	23,721	1,123

Note: For calculations for both the statewide and Miami-Dade estimates, we use the statewide estimates from Cooper and Kroeger 2017 of the share of the workforce that is minimum-wage-eligible and the share of minimum-wage-eligible workers that experience minimum wage violations in each demographic group.

Source: EPI analysis of 2018 American Community Survey microdata data and Cooper and Kroeger 2017.

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