Future loss of earnings

Future loss of earnings compensates a victim who, due to their after-effects, can no longer work or can work only part time or in a lower-paid job. The calculation starts from reference income before the accident, allows for foreseeable career progression, deducts the income the victim retains, then capitalizes the annual loss using a capitalization table, up to an end-of-career age or for life to also offset lost pension rights. Benefits paid by social security bodies, work injury annuity or disability pension, are set off against this item under their recovery rights. The Dintilhac classification distinguishes it from professional impact, which compensates devaluation on the labor market, increased hardship or giving up a chosen profession, even without quantifiable income loss. The choice of table, and thus of discount rate, can shift the award by several tens of percent.