This might be interesting to the hn crowd. I was an expert witness for a big lawsuit in California where thousands of newspaper delivery drivers were systematically underpaid by a major US newspaper company (https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article2613374.html). The delivery drivers did not keep records of which customers they delivered to, but given the customer manifest and subscription data, I was able to use route optimization (which I learned in school at MIT) to calculate a baseline for how much they were paid. link: https://afi.io/case_studies/callahan_blaine
edit: since people asked - I was paid well in the range of a few hundred k. Totally worth doing the math homework in school.
edit: since people asked - I was paid well in the range of a few hundred k. Totally worth doing the math homework in school.