Seattle is the gold standard in the country when it comes to enforcing worker-protection laws, spending 40 percent of its budget on contracts with community groups for education and outreach. Philadelphia, meanwhile, has just begun developing a strategy for enforcing its growing slate of comparable laws.
| City | Philadelphia | Seattle |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 Budget | $740,000$740,000 | $6,600,000$6,600,000 |
| Number of protections enforced in 2018 | 22 | 66 |
| Employees in 2018 | 33 | 2323 |
| Questions received in 2018 | 200200 | 2,0002000 |
| Resolved paid sick investigations, 2018 | 99 | 7676 |
| Resolved wage theft investigations, 2018 | 33 | 6262 |
