Hobbs v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

NELSON, Presiding Judge.

The sole question before this Court for review is whether the Industrial Commission properly computed petitioner’s average monthly wage for purposes of determining the workmen’s compensation benefits to which he was entitled.

Petitioner, a seasonal worker, earned $10,686 in one year as a migrant worker. Of that • sum, petitioner expended and claimed an income tax deduction of $1,555 as travel expenses. The Industrial Commission, in computing petitioner’s average monthly wage, subtracted the amount claimed as travel expenses from petitioner’s gross annual…