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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 342 WORKERS' COMPENSATION
342.143 Method for determining the average weekly wage of the state.
Download pdfby the commissioner as follows: On or before September 1 of each year, the total wages
reported by subject employers under the Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Law for the
preceding calendar year shall be divided by the average monthly number of insured
workers (determined by dividing the total number of insured workers reported for the
preceding year by twelve (12)). The average annual wage thus obtained shall be divided
by fifty-two (52) and the average weekly wage thus determined rounded to the nearest
cent. The average weekly wage shall be certified to the commissioner by the Education
and Workforce Development Cabinet in a manner prescribed by the commissioner by
administrative regulation. The average weekly wage as so determined shall be applicable
for the full period during which income or death benefits are payable, when the date of
occurrence of injury or of disability in the case of disease, or of death, falls within the
calendar year commencing January 1 following the September 1 determination.
Whenever a change in the average weekly wage of the state is of such amount that the
minimum weekly income benefits for total disability or for death are increased or
decreased by one dollar ($1) or more, or the maximum weekly income benefits for total
disability or for death are increased or decreased by two dollars ($2) or more, computed
in each case and rounded to the nearest dollar, an adjustment in those minimums or
maximums which are affected in the requisite amount by the change in the average
weekly wage of the state shall be made which will reflect this increase or decrease, but no
change in such limitations shall otherwise be made. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this section, KRS 342.140 and 342.740, or any other provisions of this chapter to the
contrary, the average weekly wage for calendar years 1995 and 1996 shall be determined
to be no higher than the average weekly wage determined by the commissioner to be in
effect in the calendar year of 1994. If the average weekly wage calculated by the
commissioner is determined to be lower than the 1994 calendar year wage, the average
weekly wage may be lowered as provided by this section. Beginning in calendar year
1997 and annually thereafter, the average weekly wage shall be calculated based upon the
state average weekly wage in effect two (2) years prior to that calculation. Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1793, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 81, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2006
Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 158, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts
ch. 271, sec. 24, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 181, Part 7,
sec. 29, effective April 4, 1994. -- Amended 1987 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1,
sec. 17, effective January 4, 1988. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI,
sec. 107(14). -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 192, sec. 14(2). -- Created 1946 Ky.
Acts ch. 37, sec. 7.
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