Data · Workers' comp maximums
Workers' compensation maximum weekly benefit by state
The most a state pays each week in workers' compensation for total disability, in the words of the state's own agency. Each row is one figure from one official page or notice, with the link, the injury period and the exact words it comes from, re-checked against the document.
What is in this dataset?
The most a state pays each week in workers' compensation for total disability, for the injury period the state's own agency names. One row per state with the dollar figure, the period, the agency page or notice it comes from, and the verbatim sentence or table row.
Use it to see how high a state's weekly workers' compensation benefit can go, for injury and workers' compensation work, and to quote the cap with its source. Maximums are reset on a schedule (January, July or October); each row names the period it covers and its date is when we last found the quote in the document.
- Records
- 28
- Look up by
- 28
- state
- Primary-source records
- 28
The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.
Where does the data come from?
Each maximum is read once on the state agency's own rate page, notice or table; the sentence or table row that carries the figure is stored as a verbatim quote and re-found in the document on every check. The row names the injury period the agency attaches to the figure.
- Period covered
- October 29, 2026
- Places
- States
- How often we refresh it
- Every quarter
- Records read
- October 29, 2026
Official sources
- Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Louisiana Workforce Commission, Office of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Montana Department of Labor & Industry, Employment Relations Division, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- District of Columbia Department of Employment Services, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Tennessee Bureau of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Disability Compensation Division, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Idaho Industrial Commission, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Indiana Worker's Compensation Board, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Iowa Division of Industrial Services, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, Workers' Disability Compensation Agency, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Utah Labor Commission, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- New York Workers' Compensation Board, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
- Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, by official web pages. Agency notice or rate table published by a government body for public use; quoted briefly (25 words or fewer) with its source.
The sources the records cite most
- Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development: Workers' Compensation Online Benefits Calculator (Alaska): 1 record
- California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers' Compensation: DWC announces temporary total disability rates for 2026: 1 record
- Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission: Memorandum 2026-05 (Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission): 1 record
- Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs: Workers' Compensation rate letter (Delaware): 1 record
- District of Columbia Department of Employment Services: Maximum-Minimum Compensation Rate 2026 (DC Department of Employment Services): 1 record
What does a record look like?
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New York: the maximum weekly workers' compensation benefit for total disability is $1,281.50 for accidents from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 (New York Workers' Compensation Board, Schedule of Maximum Weekly Benefit).
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: New York Workers' Compensation Board: Schedule of Maximum Weekly Benefit (New York Workers' Compensation Board)
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New Jersey: the maximum weekly workers' compensation benefit for total disability is $1,199 for 2026 (NJDOL press release, December 29, 2025).
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development: New benefit rates for 2026 (New Jersey Department of Labor)
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Pennsylvania: the maximum weekly workers' compensation benefit for total disability is $1,394 for injuries in calendar year 2026 (Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Statewide Average Weekly Wage).
Status P · checked October 29, 2026 · source: Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry: Statewide Average Weekly Wage (Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry)
The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.
What each of the 12 main columns means
jurisdiction- Two-letter state code
agency- The agency that publishes the source
measure- max-weekly-benefit
period- current law
value- The maximum in dollars per week
unit- dollars per week
valueText- The figure as the source words it
cite- The agency page or notice
quote- The verbatim words (25 or fewer) that carry the figure
document- The document the quote comes from
documentUrl- Link to that document
note- A qualification stated in the same source
How do I use it in my own tools?
wcbenefits_lookup- For one two-letter state code: the maximum weekly workers' compensation benefit for total disability, with the period, the agency page, the URL and the verbatim quote.
wcbenefits_compare- Maximum weekly benefits for up to 10 states side by side, each with the source and the quote.
wcbenefits_search- Rows whose text matches the words given, such as a state or an agency ("Industrial Commission").
How to cite this dataset
You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.
- Version
- 1.0.0, released October 30, 2026
- Every version
- 10.5281/zenodo.23792849 (always points to the newest)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Download the data
- CSV: wc-benefits.csv 27 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt)
- JSON: wc-benefits.json 52 KB · every record with its sources
Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and Zenodo, a public research archive.
Suggested citation
Probative. (2026). Workers' compensation maximum weekly benefit by state: the cap on total-disability pay in each state (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792850
Credit line for a chart, table or article
Source: Probative, Workers' compensation maximum weekly benefit by state: the cap on total-disability pay in each state, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792850, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Not legal advice. These are the maximums as each state agency states them, kept for research and marketing planning. The maximum that applies to a claim is the one in force on the date of injury; an injured worker should ask a lawyer or the state agency.
What changed recently?
- 2026-10-29 · 28 rows covering 27 states and DC, each from one official document with its URL and quote. (source)
The full log is in changes.json.
What are the limits?
- The table covers the states listed, each read on its agency's own page, notice or rate table. Every row carries the exact words it rests on, so a reader can check it in one click.
- A maximum is a cap on the weekly benefit, not what a worker receives; most workers are paid a share of their wage up to the cap. Waiting periods, minimums and the rules for partial or permanent benefits are separate and are not in this table.
- The maximum that applies to a claim is the one in force on the date of injury. The period on each row says which injuries the figure covers; a state that resets the cap on a different date has a different period.
- Agencies update these figures on a schedule. The date on each row is when we last found the quote in the document; the correction log shows any change we make.
- Records older than 130 days since their last check are marked
stalein the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.
Found a wrong value? Report an error with the record id and the source that shows the right value.
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