§ 20036 Industrial Disability Retirement Calculation

• •If you get hurt or sick at work and can't work anymore, your retirement pay is based on your job and pay at the time you got hurt or sick.
• •It doesn't matter if you got a promotion or pay raise later—your retirement pay is calculated using your job and pay from when the injury or sickness started.
• •This rule is for people who have to retire early because of a work-related injury or illness.

A firefighter gets badly injured while putting out a fire and can no longer work.

When calculating how much money the firefighter will get for retirement, they will use the pay and job level the firefighter had when they got injured, not any higher pay or rank they might have gotten later.