How we work out employees' estimated income from employment
If you're an employee, we calculate your ‘ordinary weekly pay’ and ‘average weekly income’ and then use the higher of the 2 to get your estimated income. These amounts are calculated as follows.
Ordinary weekly pay
Depending on how often you are paid, we'll take your last 4 weeks’, 2 fortnights’, or 1 months' earnings and divide by 4.