Texas Administrative Code 128.7 may help in solving this. This is for the insurance and facilities unit in an administrative educational leadership course.

QUESTION 18 A member of your school district's hourly paid janitorial staff has fallen victim to a work-related injury and thus a worker's compensation file is claimed. This employee works a 40 hour work-week and is paid at a rate of $8.00 / hour. According to policy, "Once temporary income benefits (TIBs) accrue, an injured employee is entitled to TIBs to compensate the employee for lost wages due to the compensable injury during a period in which the employee has a disability and has not reached maximum medical improvement." The nature of the injury required this employee to miss 17 days of work. (S)he voluntarily elected to use 5 days of accrued sick leave. (S)he returned to work on a 1/2 time basis (20 hour work week) for 5 days, after which (s)he returned to full time status. What amount of temporary income benefits is due to the employee from lost wages? $480