An injured worker need not be disabled from their concurrent job for their earnings from that job to be factored into their average weekly wages under Pennsylvania's workers' comp law. Credit: Ngampol/Adobe Stock
The Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation 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, 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?
Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader
Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:
- Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2025 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
