cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Wage-and-hour and OSHA enforcement by county, state, act and industry (U.S. Department of Labor), 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898146. Source: Probative, Wage-and-hour and OSHA enforcement by county, state, act and industry (U.S. Department of Labor), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898146, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Wage-and-hour and OSHA enforcement by county, state, act and industry (U.S. Department of Labor)"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-02
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23898146
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/wage-enforcement/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "What the U.S. Department of Labor found when it enforced wage and safety laws, counted by county, state and territory and for the US over the last ten complete federal fiscal years. From the Wage and Hour Division (WHD): concluded cases, cases with violations, back wages found owed, employees owed back wages, civil money penalties, Fair Labor Standards Act overtime and minimum wage back wages, and child labor violations. From the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), federal and state-plan offices: inspections (and how many followed a complaint, a referral, an accident or a fatality or catastrophe), violations cited (serious, willful, repeat), and penalties. State and US records add one record per law WHD enforces (FLSA, FMLA, Davis-Bacon, the Service Contract Act, H-2A, H-2B, H-1B, MSPA and others) and one per industry sector. Only counts and sums are published: no employer name, address or case number, and back wages only where 3 or more employees were owed."
keywords:
  - "wage theft statistics by county"
  - "back wages by state"
  - "Wage and Hour Division enforcement data"
  - "FLSA overtime violations"
  - "OSHA inspections by county"
  - "OSHA penalties by state"
  - "employment lawyer market data"