Economists at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimate that U.S. workers lose over $15 billion every year from minimum wage violations alone, based on survey data from the ten most populous states extrapolated nationwide. That figure does not include unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, stolen tips, illegal deductions, or worker misclassification. When those are included, EPI and other labor researchers estimate total wage theft at $30–50+ billion annually. For context, FBI data show that annual losses from robbery typically total only a few hundred million dollars. In plain terms: employers steal far more from workers’ paychecks than criminals steal through all conventional property crime combined

They lose much more than that if they comprehended how they were stolen to in the first place.