Retail Calculators
Interactive estimators that turn the doctrines in this resource into numbers — meal-and-rest and PAGA exposure, commissioned rest pay, reporting-time pay, and a suitable-seating analyzer. Each states its assumptions on its face.
Meal & Rest Premium and PAGA Exposure
Estimate aggregate meal- and rest-period premium pay across a retail workforce, plus a first-order PAGA civil-penalty layer — and see why the derivative claims are where the real exposure lives.
Commissioned Rest Pay (Vaquero)
Estimate the separate rest-period pay a commission or piece-rate plan failed to provide under Vaquero v. Stoneledge and Labor Code § 226.2 — money owed on top of commissions.
Reporting-Time Pay (Ward)
Estimate reporting-time (show-up) pay exposure for on-call and sent-home-early retail shifts under Wage Order 7 and Ward v. Tilly's.
Suitable-Seating Analyzer (Kilby)
Work through the Kilby v. CVS task-and-location factors for a specific retail workstation and gauge suitable-seating exposure — remembering that the employer bears the burden.
Estimates only — not legal advice. These tools implement simplified models of the cited rules for scoping, budgeting, and training. They are not a damages model, they do not capture every fact-specific defense or local variation, and their output is not a prediction of any court's result. Verify every figure against the primary authorities and consult counsel before relying on it.