About WageTheftMap

WageTheftMap.us is a free 50-state wage-and-hour reference for US workers. We help you answer: When am I supposed to get my last paycheck? How much could I be owed in waiting-time penalties? What is my state's 2026 minimum wage and overtime overlay? Does my state require my employer to pay out unused PTO?

We are built for workers post-termination — not HR managers. The site avoids the loaded phrasing of "wage theft" in body copy as an assertion of fact about a named employer. Where we use the phrase, it refers conditionally to potential statutory violations.

What this site is not

• Not legal advice. We cite statutes; we do not represent you in a wage claim.
• Not a lead-generator first. We default the filing-path to the state DOL claim form (free, no attorney needed). Lawyer-match links are surfaced for willful or larger claims, with state-bar advertising disclosures.
• Not a settlement mill. Our affiliate roster is vetted against FTC consumer-protection actions, state AG complaints, and state-bar disciplinary records before any partner goes live.

Editorial & verification

Every figure on the site traces to a primary government source: a state DOL page, a state legislature page, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, or a state DOL claim portal. We do not use third-party aggregators (Nolo, Justia, Paycor, ADP) for the data fields. State minimum-wage tables update January 1 in many states — we re-verify the entire min-wage column every December and stamp the new effective date on each row. Quarterly review for everything else.

Where verification is incomplete for a given state, we mark the cell verification pending rather than display an unverified figure. This is a deliberate operating discipline: we would rather show a gap than a fabricated number.

Operator

The site is part of the Desymphony portfolio. Site contact: [email protected]. Operating-entity disclosure on /terms. Last updated May 8, 2026.

Sister properties

WageTheftMap is part of a small employment-law cluster of US informational sites — sister properties cover workers' compensation deadlines, EEOC filing deadlines, and non-compete state law. Reviewer pipeline is shared across the cluster for cost amortization and consistency.