--- description: Settlement is the result of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of about 7,500 interns who say Condé Nast underpaid them title: Condé Nast to Pay $5.85 Million to Ex-Interns image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8cbc9acce3daa82/6987777ca988ca600c6aba17/rtr4cnoi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Careers & Workplace](/tag/careers-workplace/) ## Careers & Workplace Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Judge Okays Condé Nast Payout of $5.85 Million to Former Interns by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2014 4:39 AM CUT  Condé Nast employees work in the lobby of the One World Trade Center tower in New York City on Nov. 3, 2014 Condé Nast employees work in the lobby of the One World Trade Center tower in New York City on Nov. 3, 2014Mike Segar—Reuters by [Elizabeth Barber](/author/elizabeth-barber/) ## Elizabeth Barber Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2014 4:39 AM CUT Condé Nast appears likely to pay [$5.85 million](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/29/us-condenast-interns-idUSKBN0K71IX20141229 "undefined") to thousands of former interns who have accused the magazine publisher of underpaying them for their work. The publisher on Monday received a federal judge’s preliminary approval for the settlement, the result of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of about 7,500 interns who had worked at Condé Nast magazines, including _Vogue_ and the _New Yorker_, Reuters reports. Interns who worked at Condé Nast publications from June 2007 to the present are expected to each get payments of about $700 to $1,900\. Final approval of the settlement, first made public in November, is scheduled for June. Condé Nast tabled its internship program shortly after it was sued for wage violations in June 2013\. Other major media houses, including NBCUniversal and Hearst, have similarly gotten into hot water for allegedly treating interns as exempt from relevant regulations on working hours and wage rights. \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/29/us-condenast-interns-idUSKBN0K71IX20141229 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3649207/conde-nast-settlement-intern/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3649207/conde-nast-settlement-intern/"},"headline":"Judge Okays Condé Nast Payout of $5.85 Million to Former Interns","datePublished":"2014-12-30T04:39:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:10:41.523Z","description":"Onetime interns will each get payouts of up to about $1,900 for their time with the publisher","url":"https://time.com/3649207/conde-nast-settlement-intern/","keywords":["Careers & Workplace","Lawsuit","Vogue","Settlements","Interns"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8cbc9acce3daa82/6987777ca988ca600c6aba17/rtr4cnoi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Barber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/elizabeth-barber/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8cbc9acce3daa82/6987777ca988ca600c6aba17/rtr4cnoi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Conde Nast employees work in the lobby of the One World Trade Center tower in New York","caption":"Conde Nast employees work in the lobby of the One World Trade Center tower in New York","creditText":"Mike Segar—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/careers-workplace/","name":"Careers & Workplace"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3649207/conde-nast-settlement-intern/","name":"Judge Okays Condé Nast Payout of $5.85 Million to Former Interns"}}]}] ```