State ex rel. McDulin v. Industrial Commission

“The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease begins is the basis upon which to compute benefits.” R.C. 4123.61.

The “standard formula for establishing [average weekly wage] is to divide claimant’s earnings for the year preceding injury by fifty-two weeks.” State ex rel. Clark v. Indus. Comm. (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 563, 565, 634 N.E.2d 1014, 1016. *392Claimant asks us to substitute the term “income” for the terms “wage” and “earnings.” In so doing, claimant seeks to include the amount of “miscellaneous income” —…