Lost or impaired earnings may be dealt with in the same manner as other periodic elements, or through an extended process. The user can

• Build a compensation profile in current dollars,
• Project that to a future period using an inflation factor,
• Apply different increase rates to the different decades in the earnings life, and
• Add Commissions, bonuses and other compensation

to produce a total work life's compensation.

An option exists for incorporating personal expenses as deduction from earnings. These are expenses that are normally incurred in pursuing employment, and that are no longer incurred. They are not treated as tax deductible.

An option exists for incorporating taxes in the calculation of lost or impaired earnings under either the regular or extended Lost or Impaired Earnings.