Key legal question
Whether the valid income for disability assessment should be based on the former employer's concrete wage data or on statistical wages.
Extracted holding
The use of statistical wages from the wage structure survey was not contrary to federal law because continued employment with the former employer in 2005 was uncertain.
Extracted reasoning
The claimant's former job had ended in a fixed-term setting, the employer's economic situation made future employment doubtful, and therefore concrete wage projections from that employer could not serve as the decisive benchmark.