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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