ATLANTA — The data on back wages can reveal some eye-popping numbers: In Georgia alone, there are more than 7,100 workers owed more than $2 million collectively, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The owed wages span the state, but the data there too would surprise you: It's not Fulton County where the most money is owed ($300,138) and it's not even in metro Atlanta. You can find the most owed money down in Colquitt County - $327,477 owed to 816 workers.
And Early County, by far, is home to the most impacted workers with 1,446.
The exact numbers provided by the Department of Labor show $2,231,511.30 owed to 7,131 Georgia workers across 239 open cases.
Below, find the county-by-county data provided by the DOL.
Georgia back wages owed | County-by-county
Alphabetical list
- Appling: $89,179 owed to 110 workers
- Atkinson: $6,219 owed to 360 workers
- Baldwin: $30,278 owed to 14 workers
- Bartow: $990 owed to 4 workers
- Ben Hill: $3,262 owed to 2 workers
- Bibb: $32,629 owed to 12 workers
- Bullock: $1,902 owed to 14 workers
- Butts: $1,733 owed to 16 workers
- Carroll: $2,658 owed to 4 workers
- Chatham: $37,676 owed to 93 workers
- Cherokee: $19,185 owed to 38 workers
- Clarke: $86,831 owed to 70 workers
- Clayton: $114,065 owed to 199 workers
- Clinch: $17,883 owed to 39 workers
- Cobb: $82,240 owed to 216 workers
- Colquitt: $327,477 owed to 816 workers
- Columbia: $2,039 owed to 3 workers
- Cook: $5,737 owed to 22 workers
- Dawson: $1,614 owed to 1 worker
- Decatur: $1,434 owed to 3 workers
- DeKalb: $200,058 owed to 361 workers
- Dooly: $1,191 owed to 9 workers
- Dougherty: $16,495 owed to 143 workers
- Douglas: $15,132 owed to 32 workers
- Early: $30,056 owed to 1,446 workers
- Elbert: $103 owed to 1 worker
- Fayette: $6,527 owed to 2 workers
- Forsyth: $35,945 owed to 121 workers
- Franklin: $119,393 owed to 41 workers
- Fulton: $300,138 owed to 740 workers
- Glynn: $925 owed to 9 workers
- Gwinnett:: $308,391 owed to 449 workers
- Habersham: $1,177 owed to 2 workers
- Hall: $17,149 owed to 178 workers
- Henry: $11,330 owed to 35 workers
- Houston: $4,796 owed to 34 workers
- Jeff Davis: $12,726 owed to 37 workers
- Laurens: $2,052 owed to 37 workers
- Liberty: $7,761 owed to 7 workers
- Lowndes: $53,685 owed to 240 workers
- Muscogee: $83,492 owed to 115 workers
- Newton: $610 owed to 1 worker
- Oconee: $13,306 owed to 17 workers
- Paulding: $268 owed to 6 workers
- Peach: $6,268 owed to 25 workers
- Pickens: $396 owed to 3 workers
- Polk: $2,046 owed to 12 workers
- Putnam: $3,961 owed to 5 workers
- Rabun: $856 owed to 8 workers
- Richmond: $1,365 owed to 3 workers
- Rockdale: $15,496 owed to 23 workers
- Tattnall: $13,528 owed to 69 workers
- Terrell: $44 owed to 1 worker
- Thomas: $480 owed to 2 workers
- Tift: $5,596 owed to 41 workers
- Toombs: $51,179 owed to 598 workers
- Troup: $17,472 owed to 234 workers
- Walton: $4,929 owed to 6 workers
- Ware: $162 owed to 2 workers
List by most money owed
- Colquitt: $327,477
- Gwinnett: $308,391
- Fulton: $300,138
- DeKalb: $200,058
- Franklin: $119,393
- Clayton: $114,065
- Appling: $89,179
- Clarke: $86,831
- Muscogee: $83,492
- Cobb: $82,240
- Lowndes: $53,685
- Toombs: $51,179
- Chatham: $37,676
- Forsyth: $35,945
- Bibb: $32,629
- Baldwin: $30,278
- Early: $30,056
- Cherokee: $19,185
- Clinch: $17,883
- Troup: $17,472
- Hall: $17,149
- Dougherty: $16,495
- Rockdale: $15,496
- Douglas: $15,132
- Tattnall: $13,528
- Oconee: $13,306
- Jeff Davis: $12,726
- Henry: $11,330
- Liberty: $7,761
- Fayette: $6,527
- Peach: $6,268
- Atkinson: $6,219
- Cook: $5,737
- Tift: $5,596
- Walton: $4,929
- Houston: $4,796
- Putnam: $3,961
- Ben Hill: $3,262
- Carroll: $2,658
- Laurens: $2,052
- Polk: $2,046
- Columbia: $2,039
- Bullock: $1,902
- Butts: $1,733
- Dawson: $1,614
- Decatur: $1,434
- Richmond: $1,365
- Dooly: $1,191
- Habersham: $1,177
- Bartow: $990
- Glynn: $925
- Rabun: $856
- Newton: $610
- Thomas: $480
- Pickens: $396
- Paulding: $268
- Ware: $162
- Elbert:: $103
- Terrell: $44
List by most workers owed
- Early: 1,446
- Colquitt: 816
- Fulton: 740
- Toombs: 598
- Gwinnett: 449
- DeKalb: 361
- Atkinson: 360
- Lowndes: 240
- Troup: 234
- Cobb: 216
- Clayton: 199
- Hall: 178
- Dougherty: 143
- Forsyth: 121
- Muscogee: 115
- Appling: 110
- Chatham: 93
- Clarke: 70
- Tattnall: 69
- Franklin: 41
- Tift: 41
- Clinch: 39
- Cherokee: 38
- Jeff Davis: 37
- Laurens: 37
- Henry: 35
- Houston: 34
- Douglas: 32
- Peach: 25
- Rockdale: 23
- Cook: 22
- Oconee: 17
- Butts: 16
- Baldwin: 14
- Bullock: 14
- Bibb: 12
- Polk: 12
- Dooly: 9
- Glynn: 9
- Rabun: 8
- Liberty: 7
- Walton: 6
- Paulding: 6
- Putnam: 5
- Carroll: 4
- Bartow: 4
- Columbia: 3
- Decatur: 3
- Richmond: 3
- Pickens: 3
- Fayette: 2
- Ben Hill: 2
- Habersham: 2
- Thomas: 2
- Ware: 2
- Dawson: 1
- Newton: 1
- Elbert: 1
- Terrell: 1