Workers not covered by a union are almost twice as likely to experience minimum wage violations: Share of each union status group experiencing minimum wage violations

Share of workforce demographic experiencing minimum wage violations
Union covered 2.3%
Not union covered 4.4%

Note: Union status was not available for 11.5 percent of the sample. The share experiencing minimum wage violations from these cases is 1.8 percent.

Sample includes workers age 16 to 85 in the 10 most populous states: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group data, 2013–2015

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