FOR PURPOSES OF LOST TIME BENEFITS, HOW DO I DETERMINE MY AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE?
Your annual wage includes your regular pay, base earnings from mandatory overtime and earnings from a second job if the employer, for whom you were working when injured, had knowledge of your other employment. Your weekly lost time benefit is figured as follows: • If you worked all of the 52 weeks prior to the date of injury, the average weekly wage is equal to your actual earnings in the employment in which you were working at the time of the injury during the period of 52 weeks ending with the last day of your last full pay period immediately preceding the date of injury. In other words, the average weekly wage equals the total wages for the 52 weeks divided by 52. • If you lost 5 or more days during the 52 weeks before the injury, whether or not the lost days occurred in the same week, the earnings for the remainder of the 52 weeks is divided by the number of weeks and parts thereof remaining after the time so lost has been deducted. Using this method, the total earnings for the per
