Payroll and Time Sheets

When filling out time sheets, please refer to the information on this page, as well as the information in the video above before emailing the Managing Editor for assistance!

This page will explain what you can get paid for while working for The Lions' Pride Media Group. It includes a list of what you can get paid for and how much you are paid for each activity. For a more in-depth guide to how to actually fill out, turn in, and review the time sheets, please look at the video above and the documents below.

List of Activities which you can be paid for:

• Submitting completed articles

  • Can earn an hour for every 100 words written.

    • For the exact pay scale and to learn that activities, such as interviewing, that are included in the pay for the word count and that can't be paid for separately, look at the documents below.

  • Can only be paid when it has finished the editing process.

    • Note: Timeliness is important in news; so, if you can’t meet the due date for article and article is no longer usable, you will not be paid for the article.

• Submitting pictures and cutlines

  • Can earn a half an hour of pay for every six pictures submitted.

    • If more than twelve pictures, you are paid for the time spent at the event.

  • Can only be paid for pictures if a cutline accompanies each picture.

    • If more than twelve pictures, a cutline is not needed for all pictures, only a select few.

• Newspaper distribution

  • Can earn 30 minutes for disturbing to a location.

    • Farther locations, such as Marmion/Snyder and off-campus locations, earns an hour (see document below).

  • Can only be paid for disturbing to location(s) you are sign up for on the distribution list.

    • For further details on being part of the distribution team, contact the Distribution Manager.

• Attending weekly staff meetings

  • Can earn time for how long spent at a meeting.

    • If you are late, you cannot clock the full meeting. If the meeting was between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., and you arrived at 10:30 a.m., you are only allowed to put in the half hour you were actually there.

• Attending workshops

  • Workshops are infrequently-held meetings, typically held on weekends that act as a huge training and informational session for newcomers to the Paper.

  • Can earn time for how time spent at workshop.

• Meeting with Editors or Mrs. Kasper

  • Can earn time for how long spent with editor or Dr. Kasper

  • You can only be paid for newspaper related things, such as getting help with an article.

• Additional Tasks

  • Can earn time for completing additional tasks needed by the newspaper, but you have to be approved and directed by Dr. Kasper or managing editor and have to sign up for the tasks on Sign Up Genius.

  • To view what are the additional tasks, click the "additional tasks" subpage on this website and visit SUG.

What you CAN NOT be paid for:

• For being at an event

  • You can only be paid for the time spent at an event if you take a reasonable amount of pictures and/or videos throughout the event, and a staff photographer isn't already covering said event.

• For meeting with an editor for under than 30 minutes

  • You should confirm with editor how long to record for the meetings as if it under 30 minutes it is doesn’t count for a timesheet.

• For working on your timesheet

WorkDay

• • WorkDay is the new platform used to complete timesheets. Below is a checklist for when filling out timesheets.

• Here is the link to WorkDay: https://wd5.myworkday.com/saintleo/d/home.htmld.

• Here is a link to YouTube video on how to navigate through WorkDay: https://youtu.be/ChWu2SRiI1Q

• The video above is a step by step instructions on how to enter time.