Wage theft

Wage theft - unlawful withholding of employee pay by their employer. Article “Wage theft” in English Wikipedia has 60.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 60 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Wage theft” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wage theft”, its content was written by 97 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 460 times in English Wikipedia and cited 727 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25090 in February 2015
• Global: #94410 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7634 in February 2015
• Global: #23384 in February 2015

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Wage theft		60.94
2	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		48.7433
3	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		26.4709
4	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		25.9372
5	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		23.8311
6	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		19.1349
7	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		12.0545
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		2.1454

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Wage theft" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wage theft		613 592
2	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		9 964
3	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		9 629
4	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		3 994
5	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		2 633
6	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		2 611
7	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		1 509
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		263

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Wage theft" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wage theft		4 568
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		101
3	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		52
4	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		43
5	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		36
6	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		35
7	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		26
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Wage theft" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wage theft		97
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		8
3	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		7
4	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		6
5	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		5
6	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		4
7	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		3
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Wage theft" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wage theft		6
2	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		0
3	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		0
4	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		0
5	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		0
6	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		0
7	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		0
8	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Wage theft" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wage theft		460
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		144
3	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		82
4	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		14
5	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		12
6	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		6
7	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		5
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		4

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#	Language	Value
en	English Wage theft
es	Spanish Robo de salarios
fa	Persian سرقت دستمزد
ja	Japanese 賃金未払い
ko	Korean 임금 착취
simple	Simple English Wage theft
tr	Turkish Ücret hırsızlığı
zh	Chinese 无薪加班

Best Rank

English: #7634 02.2015

Global: #23384 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #25090 02.2015

Global: #94410 02.2015

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