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.