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State wage claims

How many wage claims state labor agencies say they receive, in their own words. Each row is one figure from one state document, with the link and the exact sentence it comes from, re-checked against the document each time we refresh. For the federal side, see the wage and OSHA enforcement data.

Checked October 28, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

Wage-claim counts that state labor agencies print in their own reports, one row per figure with the document's URL and a verbatim quote: the California Labor Commissioner's Office (wage claims filed in 2021, from its Labor Code section 96.1 report) and the Washington Department of Labor & Industries (wage complaints in state fiscal years 2024 and 2025, from its Workplace Rights Investigations reports). Each quote is re-checked against the document at each refresh. States whose pages block the fetcher or publish no count are not included.

Use it to see how many wage claims state agencies receive, beside the federal wage-and-hour cases in the wage enforcement dataset, and to quote a state's own figure with its source. The units differ (claims filed, complaints received) and the periods differ (calendar or fiscal year); do not add or rank them.

Records
3
Look up by
2
state
Primary source
3

The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.

Where does the data come from?

Each figure is read once from a state labor agency's report; the report's wording around the number is stored as a verbatim quote and re-checked against the live document at each refresh.

Period covered
2021 to 2025
Places
States
How often we refresh it
Once a year
Records read
October 28, 2026

Official sources

The sources the records cite most

What does a record look like?

The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.

What each of the 10 main columns means
jurisdiction
Two-letter state code
agency
The state agency that published the figure
measure
wage-claims-filed or wage-complaints
period
Calendar or state fiscal year the figure covers
value
The figure as the agency prints it
unit
What the figure counts
quote
The verbatim words in the document that carry the figure
document
The report the figure comes from
documentUrl
Where the document is
verified
The date the quote was last found in the document

How do I use it in my own tools?

wageclaims_lookup
For one two-letter state code: the wage claim counts the state's labor agency printed, each with its document, URL and verbatim quote.
wageclaims_compare
Wage claim counts for up to 10 states side by side, each with the agency, unit, period, document and quote; units and periods differ.
wageclaims_search
Records whose text matches the words given, such as a state or an agency ("Labor Commissioner").

How to cite this dataset

You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.

Version
1.0.0, released October 29, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23753045 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). State labor agency wage claims: figures printed in state reports (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753046

Credit line for a chart, table or article

Source: Probative, State labor agency wage claims: figures printed in state reports, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753046, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts state agencies publish, kept for research and marketing planning. A claim is not a finding that wages are owed; rights and deadlines are for your own counsel.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-28 · 3 figures, each from one state document with its URL and quote. (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • Two states so far, and for California only one year. Other states are not included: a state is built only when its agency prints a count we can fetch and quote.
  • The units and periods differ: California counts wage claims filed in a calendar year, Washington counts wage complaints received in a state fiscal year (July to June). Do not add or rank them.
  • These are claims and complaints received, not claims found valid or wages recovered, and many are not accepted or are settled. They say nothing about whether any worker is owed wages.
  • A figure is the agency's count in its report. We do not adjust it, and a later report may revise it; the correction log shows any change we make.
  • Records older than 400 days since their last check are marked stale in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.

Found a wrong value? Report an error with the record id and the source that shows the right value.

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