2006 South Dakota Code - 62-4-24 — Employment for year preceding injury--Determination of average weekly wage.

     62-4-24.   Employment for year preceding injury--Determination of average weekly wage. As to an employee in an employment in which it is the custom to operate throughout the working days of the year, and who was in the employment of the same employer in the same grade of employment as at the time of the injury continuously for fifty-two weeks next preceding the injury, except for any temporary loss of time, the average weekly wage shall, where feasible, be computed by dividing by fifty-two the total earnings of such employee as defined in subdivision 62-1-1(6), during such period of fifty-two weeks, but if such employee lost more than seven consecutive days during such period of fifty-two weeks, then the division shall be by the number of weeks and fractions thereof that he actually worked.

Source: SL 1917, ch 376, §§ 26, 55; RC 1919, §§ 9461, 9490; SDC 1939, § 64.0404 (1) (a); SL 1978, ch 370, § 12.