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1 14. Based on a review of individual information pertaining to each content contributor, Vox
2 Media was also able to populate Column G of the Excel spreadsheet to reflect the league with which
3 each individual’s blog, or “team brand” is associated. The leagues include: College (multiple sports
4 in single team brand), English Premier League soccer, Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball,
5 National Basketball League, National Football League, National Hockey League, and “other” which
6 was a catch-all for individuals for whom we lacked information on the league or who worked on non-
7 traditional sports like combat. See Exhibit A, Column G.
8 15. Based on a review of individual information pertaining to each content contributor, Vox
9 Media was also able to populate Column H with the roleof each individual that contributed to a team
10 brand in a regular league or a college team brand. See Exhibit A, Column H.
11 16. Based on my good faith review, these individuals were paid monthly by Vox Media
12 between the earliest, adjusted Paylocity date (Column D) and the most recent Paylocity pay date prior
13 to the filing of the complaint (Column E). All except twenty of the 258 individuals were paid monthly
14 without gaps in stipend payments.
15 17. I have excluded the twenty individuals with gaps in stipend payments during their time
16 working for Vox Media for purposes of calculating the number of days covered by the period over
17 which an individual was paid.
18 18. The total number of days between the most recent Paylocity pay date (Column E) and
19 the earliest, adjusted Paylocity date (Column D), can be found in Column F. See Exhibit A, Column
20 F. When summed, Column F reflects a total of 131,127 days for the 238 individuals paid monthly
21 without gaps in stipend amounts. That sum can be seen at Row 1 of Column F. Dividing that number
22 by seven to obtain the number of estimated weeks worked yields a result of 18,732 estimated
23 workweeks. On average this is 78.7 estimated workweeks per person, or just over 18 months of being
24 paid monthly stipends per Content Contributor during the four years between September 21, 2014 and
25 September 21, 2018.
26 19. Of the 238 individuals paid consistently, 218 are associated with a league (Column G)
27 and role (Column H). For those 218 individuals, Column I contains a reasonable estimate of the
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1 number of hours each individual may have worked per week while the league was in season based on
2 each individual’s role (Column I), as provided to me by John Ness.
3 20. For all leagues except college, Column J reflects the number of weeks per season
4 (including the pre-season) for each sport, a well-known and easily ascertainable fact. Column K
5 reflects an estimate of the number of seasons an individual worked based on their Paylocity start and
6 end dates as well as the dates of the relevant season.
7 21. Column L reflects the number of weeks each individual worked during in season time.
8 For all leagues, except college, Column L is the result of multiplying Column J by Column K.
9 22. For individuals associated with college team brands, the season used was year-round.
10 Therefore columns J and K are blank for those individuals, but Column L was populated by dividing
11 Column F (days covered by payments) by 7 to obtain the number of weeks during which each individual
12 was paid in season.
13 23. Column M contains an estimate of the applicable minimum wage for each individual.
14 This Column is based California’s state-wide minimum wage rates and when during the past four years
15 each individual was paid.
16 24. Column N contains the total amount allegedly “owed” to each individual for in season
17 work, assuming (without conceding) the allegations of Plaintiff’s complaint are true and legally valid.
18 This column was populated by multiplying Column I (Hours worked per week in season) by Column
19 L (Weeks worked during in season time) by Column M (Pay rate owed).
20 25. Column O contains an estimate of the monthly stipend amount paid to all individuals,
21 $400 per individual per month. To reach this figure, I took the average of the stipend amounts paid to
22 each individual, approximately $320 per month, and then I added 25%, or an additional $80, for a more
23 conservative estimate (as I understand the stipend would be an “offset” to any wages allegedly owed,
24 a higher estimated stipend will result in a more conservative estimate of wages allegedly owed). The
25 individual stipend payment data from which I calculated the average was, in most cases, derived from
26 the most recent stipend payment amount reflected in the Paylocity database. Based on my observations,
27 while stipend payments to an individual vary over time, they usually increase over time.
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1 26. Column P contains the estimated weekly stipend paid to each individual, $92.31. The
2 weekly stipend was calculated by taking the monthly stipend, multiplying it by 12 and then dividing
3 that by 52.
4 27. Column Q contains an estimate of the amount paid to each individual for his or her in
5 season work. Column Q was calculated by multiplying Column P (Weekly stipend) by Column L
6 (Weeks worked per season).
7 28. Column R contains the difference between amount paid and amount allegedly owed for
8 weeks worked in season. Column R was calculated by subtracting Column Q (amount paid) from
9 Column N (total owed).
10 29. Column S contains a calculation of what each of the 218 individuals would be owed if
11 they were owed one additional hour of minimum wage pay for each week they worked. These numbers
12 were obtained by multiplying Column L (weeks worked in season) by Column M (pay rate owed). The
13 first row of Column S sums the total in Column S.
14 30. Based on my good faith review of currently available information, 155 of the 238
15 individuals without gaps in payment were paid at some point during the one year period prior to
16 September 21, 2018. This number excludes any individuals who were only paid one stipend in the
17 prior year, e.g. individuals whose first and last Paylocity date is the same. I have provided the number
18 of days covered by monthly stipend payments for each individual between September 21, 2017 and
19 September 21, 2018 in Column T of Exhibit A. See Exhibit A, Column T. For example, if an
20 individual’s first Paylocity date was prior to September 21, 2017 and his or her most recent Paylocity
21 date was September 14, 2018, then she would have been paid over a period of 358 days in the year
22 prior to the filing of the complaint. I then summed the individual number of days for a total of 36,758.
23 The sum is in Row 1 of Column T. Divided by seven to obtain the number of weeks, this is 5,251.14
24 weeks. On average, then these 155 individuals were paid over a period of approximately 33.9 weeks
25 or 7.8 months (33.9/52 *12=7.8) over the past year.
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1 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is true
2 and correct, and that this declaration was executed on this Y.iitday of January, 2019.
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