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About Workers' Comp Pay Calc
A single-purpose tool: turn an injured worker's wage into the weekly check their state's workers' compensation law says they should receive while they cannot work.
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Why this exists
When someone is hurt on the job, the first money question is rarely about a settlement. It is about rent next month: how much will the insurer actually pay each week, starting when, and for how long? Every state answers that question differently. Most pay two-thirds of the average weekly wage, but Michigan pays 80% of an after-tax figure, Alaska 80% of "spendable" wages, Texas 70% with a 75% tier for low earners, Washington a percentage that rises with marriage and children, and every state caps the check at a maximum that is reset on its own calendar — January 1 in many states, July 1 in others, September 1 in Louisiana, October 1 in Texas.
Search results for this question are crowded with law-firm pages that quote one state's maximum from a year or two ago, and with "national" tables that contradict each other. We built Workers' Comp Pay Calc to do one thing better: compute the weekly temporary total disability (TTD) figure from each state's own current notice, show the arithmetic, and link the document the number came from.
Who publishes it
Workers' Comp Pay Calc is published by the Workers' Comp Pay Calc Editorial Team. We are an independent publisher that also operates other single-topic calculator sites on government formulas; this site is edited and verified on its own. We are not a law firm, an insurer, a claims administrator or a government agency, and no state workers' compensation board has reviewed or endorsed this tool. We do not name individual authors, and we do not display credentials, ratings or testimonials, because none of those would make a weekly benefit figure more or less correct — the cited source does.
What the tool covers
It covers all 51 jurisdictions — the 50 states and the District of Columbia — for the weekly TTD rate, the state minimum and maximum for the injury date, the waiting period and when it is paid back, and, where the statute gives a clean formula, temporary partial disability for a worker back on reduced pay. It does not cover federal programs (FECA for federal employees, the Longshore Act, the Jones Act or FELA), permanent impairment ratings, death benefits, or medical benefits.
What it will never do
It will never estimate the "value" of a claim or a settlement. Settlement amounts depend on impairment ratings, disputed medical evidence, future-care projections and negotiation — inputs a calculator cannot see and should not pretend to. Our guide on settlement calculators explains what actually drives those numbers and where to get a real answer.
How it is funded
The site carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no lead forms that sell your details to attorneys. It sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. Running costs are paid by the publisher. If that ever changes, this page will say so before anything else on the site does.
Get in touch
Found a figure that does not match your state agency's notice? Please use the corrections form. Reports go to a queue we read and act on; see the editorial policy for how corrections are handled and the methodology for exactly how each number is computed.