Free checker: your owed-by date, the waiting-time penalty accrued so far, your vacation verdict, and one total-owed number — computed from your state's statute, not from a chart.
The verdict tells you the number. The kit turns it into the written demand letter — built to the statute that makes the letter itself start the penalty clock in trigger states — plus the claim walkthrough for all 51 jurisdictions with its filing deadline, the documentation timeline, the PTO fight sheet, and the stall scripts.
A deadline date alone is free elsewhere, and worth about what it costs. The verdict here computes the layer nobody gives away: the money.
California: one day's wages per late day, up to 30. Indiana: 10% of the check per day. Massachusetts: three times the wages in damages. Your verdict prices your state's formula at your rate — accrued so far, and at the ceiling.
About eleven states treat accrued vacation as wages that must be in the check. Most others let the handbook decide. The verdict names your class and prices your hours either way.
Wages + penalty + vacation, added once — the figure that belongs in a demand letter and on a claim form, with the statute cited under it and the date the rules were checked.
In Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, Louisiana and Maine, the penalty does not start when the deadline passes. It starts when the employer receives a written demand and still does not pay. Workers lose that money every week by asking politely, verbally, for a month — a phone call starts nothing.
Minnesota: wages due on demand, penalty from 24 hours after it. Colorado: 200% of the wages or $1,000 once 14 days pass a written demand. The checker knows which clock your state runs and whether yours has started.
Every state claim has a filing deadline. Texas gives 180 days from the due date — miss it and the free state route closes for good. The verdict prints your claim window next to your total.
Penalties are printed as the statute's maximum math, with the willfulness condition named in the same breath. A number you cannot defend in your own letter is worse than no number.
Every state page carries the deadline, the penalty rule and the vacation class, with the statute cited and the rules-checked date printed. All 51 state pages — or go straight to the checker and let it do the reading.
For the laptop, for the uniform, because you quit — what may and may not be held back.
Per-day wages, percentage damages, treble damages, and the demand that starts the clock.
Deadline, demand, claim — the sequence, and the documents that win each step.
All six guides — each answers one question in the words people search it.