Calculating Average Weekly Wages

1. CalculatingAverage Weekly Wages

2. RISE to the challenge of determining which method to use: • Regular workweek and consistent earnings, or salary • Irregular workweek, or employed less than 200 workdays • Seasonal employment • Everybody else

3. Section 102(4)(A) • Regular workweek with consistent earnings, or paid a salary AND • Must have worked at least 200 full working days

4. Section 102(4)(A) AWW = weekly pay at time of injury

5. Irregular workweek with inconsistent earnings OR Regular workweek and consistent earnings, but less than 200 full working days Section 102(4)(B)

6. Section 102(4)(B) AWW = gross earnings divided by weeks worked • Do not include earnings from week-of-injury if they reduce the AWW • Do not include earnings from week-of-hire if they reduce the AWW

7. Section 102(4)(C) Employment affected by Seasons • Winter • Spring • Summer • Fall

8. Section 102(4)(C) • All agricultural employees • All loggers and log haulers • All others who ordinarily work (seasonally) no more than 26 weeks per year

9. Section 102(4)(C) AWW = gross earnings for prior calendar year divided by 52 weeks • Include earnings from all employment • Do not use if employee was not “seasonal” in prior calendar year

10. Section 102(4)(D) • Applies to Everybody else whose AWW can’t be calculated with Paragraphs (A), (B) or (C) • Commonly referred to as the “fallback provision”

11. Section 102(4)(D) AWW = ? (you decide) • Consider employee’s past wages • Consider wages of at least 2 comparable employees • Use your own judgment to calculate the AWW

12. RISE to the challenge of determining which method to use: • Regular workweek and consistent earnings, or salary • Irregular workweek, or employed less than 200 workdays • Seasonal employment • Everybody else