Scaled Comp’s August Settlement Pulse recorded about 225 California PAGA and wage-and-hour settlements totaling $157.4 million. The medians tell you where the market sat. They don’t tell you why one employer paid six times what another did for nearly the same number of pay periods, what a $6.5 million fund is actually buying, or whether the 2024 PAGA reform’s signature employer protection is showing up in settlement papers at all.
So we reviewed the documents. This week’s five points come from five settlements in the August cohort, each chosen because it answers a question the headline number can’t: the largest, the smallest, a matched pair, one that shows how the reform’s penalty cap is being argued in practice, and — across three months and more than 650 settlements — a count of how often that cap appears anywhere in the record. (Full disclosure: I co-founded Scaled Comp, and Zaller Law Group uses it as a tool in our litigation and audit work. More on that at the end.)
A word on method. Each settlement is de-identified. Each description reflects allegations and stated settlement terms, not findings of liability or final court-approved distributions. Figures come from the agreements and approval papers, using the stated caps and estimates.
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