Wage theft

Wage theft - unlawful withholding of employee pay by their employer. Article “Wage theft” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Wage theft”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 143 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 793 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1764 in January 2017
• Global: #94569 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #36995 in November 2020
• Global: #24010 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, 2026 (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		47.9578
2	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		47.866
3	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		26.5283
4	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		25.9032
5	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		23.5307
6	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		18.1456
7	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		11.9958
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		2.1481

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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		653 742
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		10 579
3	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		10 538
4	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		4 395
5	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		3 014
6	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		2 879
7	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		1 623
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		447

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wage theft		2 891
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		95
3	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		69
4	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		45
5	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		39
6	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		20
7	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		15
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		7

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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		108
2	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		8
3	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		8
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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wage theft		0
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		502
2	Chinese (zh) 无薪加班		149
3	Persian (fa) سرقت دستمزد		86
4	Turkish (tr) Ücret hırsızlığı		17
5	Spanish (es) Robo de salarios		14
6	Simple English (simple) Wage theft		11
7	Japanese (ja) 賃金未払い		9
8	Korean (ko) 임금 착취		5

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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

Simple English: #36995 11.2020

Global: #24010 02.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #1764 01.2017

Global: #94569 02.2015

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