---
title: "Queensland normal weekly earnings worksheet"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/qld-nwe-worksheet"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-qld-nwe-worksheet"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "other"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-WC20261023-10", "A21-WD20261023-9", "A22-TP20261023-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Queensland normal weekly earnings worksheet

> Worksheet for normal weekly earnings under Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) section 106, and the total-incapacity rates in sections 150 and 151.…

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Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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Worksheet for normal weekly earnings under Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) section 106, and the total-incapacity rates in sections 150 and 151. The regulation method and the QOTE dollar are left blank.

## Key facts

- Kind: Other. A precedent that fits none of the other kinds.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: Queensland
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 3 authorities it cites, for Queensland.

## When to use it

Use when a Queensland statutory weekly payment depends on normal weekly earnings. The lawyer identifies the employment in the period section 106 names. Partial-incapacity rates were not opened and are not on this sheet.

## Used for these tasks

- [Prepare the response to a notice suspending weekly payments](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-the-response-to-a-notice-suspending-weekly-payments.md)
- [Reconcile statutory payments with a work injury damages outcome](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/reconcile-statutory-payments-with-a-work-injury-damages-outcome.md)
- [Map policy offset clauses against statutory weekly payments and other income](https://ailawframework.com/practice/insurance-law/map-policy-offset-clauses-against-statutory-weekly-payments-and-other-in.md)

## How AI may be used

The tool records the section 106 period and the section 150 or 151 comparison, and leaves the regulation arithmetic and every indexed dollar for the lawyer.

**AI may:**

- List employment in the 12 months before the injury, or the shorter period if employment did not run that long.
- Set out the section 150 or 151 comparison once the lawyer supplies normal weekly earnings and QOTE.
- Apply the subsection (2) ceiling that was opened.

**AI must not:**

- Do not invent the regulation method. Section 106(3) says normal weekly earnings are calculated as prescribed under a regulation. That regulation was not opened.
- Do not type a QOTE dollar. Section 10A tells the lawyer where the figure comes from, and the Regulator's notice is subordinate legislation.
- Do not type a single pension rate. Its definition was not opened.
- Do not calculate partial incapacity. Those sections were not opened.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Decide whether employment is governed by an industrial instrument, so that section 150 applies rather than section 151.
- Take the calculation method from the current regulation.
- Insert QOTE from the Regulator's notice for the financial year, made under section 10A.
- Decide whether the worker has demonstrated that the injury could result in a DPI of more than 15 per cent. The tool does not.
- Keep wage and medical records in the firm's system. Check Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules rule 9, Australian Privacy Principle 11, and whether a breach would be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

## Authorities

- [Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) s 106 (normal weekly earnings)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/wcara2003400/s106.html)
- [Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) s 150 and s 151 (total incapacity)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/wcara2003400/s150.html)
- [Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld) s 10A (QOTE)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/wcara2003400/s10a.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/qld-nwe-worksheet and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*