Claimant was injured while working as a welder for Sause, where he earned $15 per hour.  He unsuccessfully tried to return to work, so Sause paid disability benefits.  Three years later, Claimant began working for another employer, K&K.  Claimant’s starting pay was $7.80 per hour, and his pay was scheduled to increase periodically.  A representative from K&K explained the pay increase as a quarterly “seniority raise:” If people work for us, we promise them a certain maximum wage that they can achieve in a certain time frame for us.  And the cap wage for everybody in production and clerical is $13.50.  And when out employees start, they start at minimum wage, and with adequate performance they will get automatic raises of 25 cents per quarter. When Sause began paying permanent partial disability benefits pursuant to Section 8(c)(21), it did so based on Claimant’s starting salary with K&K.  However, as K&K periodically increasedRead more