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An Iowa appellate court held that an assistant manager’s annual bonus was sufficiently “regular” to be included in the assistant manager’s “gross salary, wages, or earnings” identified in Iowa Code § 85.36, and should, therefore, be included in the computation of the assistant manager’s average weekly wage for purposes of workers’ compensation injury benefits. The fact that the amount of the bonus varied from year to year, depending upon the profitability of the assistant manager’s department, did not mean the bonus was irregular.
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See Menard, Inc. v. Scheffert, 2014 Iowa App. LEXIS 1261 (Dec. 24, 2014) [2014 Iowa App. LEXIS 1261 (Dec. 24, 2014)]
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 93.01 [93.01]
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law