Average Weekly Wage. The wage used to calculate payments for lost wages. It is the average weekly wage earned by an injured worker during the 13 weeks before injury. Depending on the date of accident, the AWW may or may not include income from jobs other than the one where the injury occurred.
Average Weekly Wages. (1) For an individual worker, the result obtained by dividing the individual's total wages in a specified period either by the total number of weeks in the period, or by the number of weeks for which wages were payable to the individual during the period. (2) For a group of workers, the result obtained by dividing the total wages for one or more quarters by the number of weeks in the period, and then dividing by the average monthly employment for the payroll period including the 12th of each month during the period.