© COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. Photoluminescence spectroscopy is a powerful technique to investigate the properties of photo-generated hot carriers in materials in steady state conditions. Hot carrier temperature can be determined via fitting the emitted PL spectrum with the generalized Planck's law. However, this analysis is not trivial, especially for nanostructured materials, such as quantum wells, with a modified density of states due to quantum confinement effects. Here, we present comprehensively different methods to determine carrier temperature via fitting the emitted PL spectrum with the generalized Planck's law and discuss under what conditions it is possible to simplify the analysis.