Melissa Chandy of Pond Lehocky Giordano. Courtesy photo
The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) is a remedial statute intended to benefit Pennsylvania’s workers, which Pennsylvania courts have liberally construed to effectuate this objective. Under the Act, when an employee is injured on the job and cannot work because of it, they are entitled to wage-loss benefits. Wage-loss benefits are a calculation of a claimant’s average weekly wage (AWW). To give a reasonable calculation of pre-injury earnings to project both future earnings and a loss of earnings, a claimant’s AWW is based on the 52 weeks of earnings leading up to their work injury and determines the compensation rate paid after the injury.
Calculating AWW is fairly straightforward when an injured worker has one job and was injured while working at that job. But what about when that worker is juggling multiple jobs?
