Arkansas Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Arkansas law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own benefit rate and weekly maximum, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Arkansas pays, and when you must act
Workers' compensation pays a share of your wage while you cannot work, whoever was at fault, up to a weekly maximum the state sets. Two deadlines run from the injury: one for reporting it and one for filing the claim. Here is what we hold for this state.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-501(b)·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Arkansas caps permanent partial disability separately and lower than total disability, both effective January 1 to December 31, 2026. The total-disability maximum is the headline figure and is 85% of the state average weekly wage; the permanent partial maximum is derived from it. A special lower rate can apply to some permanent partial awards, which our single per-class ceiling does not model.
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-501·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Ark. Code Ann. § 11-9-701·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
The Arkansas Code is published only through LexisNexis, which serves its text to a browser running scripts; no official copy was readable. So this page does not say whether or how a claim can be settled for a lump sum in Arkansas. Ask a workers' comp attorney in Arkansas whether yours can be.
What Arkansas pays at different wages
The weekly benefit the calculator above pays at six average weekly wages, and what that comes to over 12 weeks out of work. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these claims are worth.
Temporary total disability only, run through the calculator above at each wage: no medical costs, no permanent impairment, no waiting period or limit on the number of weeks, and one rate for every week, so a different rate the state sets for part of a claim (see the note under the maximum) is not applied. Below a wage of about $1,430 a week the benefit is 66.67% of the wage; above it, Arkansas's maximum of $953 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Arkansas deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Arkansas periods in our verified data, with the statute behind each one. A deadline is the outside limit, never a target, and other rules can shorten it.
For Arkansas's 3 years, this page quotes the Arkansas Supreme Court in Marcum v. Hodge, 2023 Ark. 103, No. CV-21-521, decided June 15, 2023. That case was about a negligence claim from a car accident, brought against the estate of the other person involved, who had died. The opinion says “This case stems from an automobile accident involving Marcum and Hendricks that occurred on April 15, 2017.” In its own words, the court wrote: “Generally, tort claims are subject to a three-year statute of limitations which begins to run when a negligent act occurs. Grand Valley Ridge, LLC v. Metro. Nat’l Bank, 2012 Ark. 121, at 18, 388 S.W.3d 24, 35; see also Ark. Code Ann. § 16-56-105(1).” Applying that, it wrote: “The record demonstrates that the automobile accident from which Marcum’s negligence allegations against Hendricks arose occurred on April 15, 2017. Therefore, the three-year statute of limitations would have expired on April 15, 2020.” What the case decided was which period governs a claim against an estate: “we conclude that the statute of nonclaim, as opposed to the general three-year statute of limitations, governs Marcum’s claims against Hodge”. Its disposition reads “Reversed and remanded; court of appeals’ opinion vacated. KEMP, C.J., and HUDSON, J., dissent.” The text of Ark. Code Ann. § 16-56-105 itself was not read for this page. Ask a licensed Arkansas attorney which period applies to your claim.
Ark. Code Ann. § 16-56-105·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorArk. Code Ann. § 16-114-203·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorArk. Code Ann. § 16-62-102(c)(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorArk. Code Ann. § 11-9-702(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorArk. Code Ann. § 16-56-105·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorArkansas against the rest of the country
Every count below is read from our state-law data across all 51 jurisdictions, so it moves when the data does. What you will not find here is an average settlement figure: the only one we could compute is a model, and a model presented as a measurement is not a fact.
- 39 of the 51 jurisdictions we track pay 66.67% of the wage, the most common rate, and Arkansas is one of them. It applies the rate to gross wages, as 47 of the 51 do; the rest use after-tax earnings.
- Of the 34 jurisdictions with a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, Arkansas's $953 is the 30th highest, and they run from $800 in Georgia to $2,431 in Iowa. Each state resets its maximum on its own date, so these are the figures our data holds rather than one day's.
- Arkansas's 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 24 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 4 years.
- In 44 of the 51 jurisdictions, the statute we read provides for settling or commuting a claim to a lump sum on the terms it states; in 4 it allows one only in the cases it names; and for 3 we could not read an official copy. Arkansas is in the third group.
Comparisons are drawn from the rules that set a benefit, not from closed-claim data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology
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Every document behind our workers' compensation figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our Workers' Compensation research sources page.