Lowry v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona

OPINION

McGREGOR, Justice.

I

¶ 1 We are asked to decide whether, for purposes of determining workers’ compensation disability benefits, an employee’s average monthly wage includes earnings from concurrent employment held within the thirty days prior to, but not on the date of, an on-the-job injury.

¶2 During 1992, petitioner Carl Lowry worked for the City of Coolidge as a building inspector and also as a volunteer firefighter. His pay as a firefighter consisted of approximately one-tenth his wages as a building inspector. The City terminated the building inspector position, and Lowry’s employment…