PJC General Negligence 2024

W ORKERS ’ C OMPENSATION —A VERAGE W EEKLY W AGE

PJC 22.4

PJC 22.4 Nonpecuniary Wages—Definition “Nonpecuniary wages” are wages paid to an employee in a form other than money. COMMENT When to use. PJC 22.4 may be used with PJC 22.1 when there is a question whether all or part of any remuneration used to calculate the average weekly wage is nonpecuniary in nature. Source of definition. PJC 22.4 is based on 28 Tex. Admin. Code § 126.1, which lists examples of both pecuniary and nonpecuniary wages. See also Tex. Lab. Code § 408.045, which prohibits the inclusion of nonpecuniary wages in the computation of average weekly wage.

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