Colorado Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Colorado 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 Colorado 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.
We do not hold a verified current maximum weekly benefit for Colorado. The 2026-2027 Maximum Benefits Order is confirmed issued and effective July 1, 2026, but the amount could not be read from the linked order.
C.R.S. § 8-43-102(1)(a)(I)·Last reviewed 2026-10-04
“(1) An injured employee may settle all or part of any claim for compensation, benefits, penalties, or interest.” The newest official text this session could fetch is the 2024 printout; amendments made in 2025 or 2026 are not checked.
C.R.S. § 8-43-204(1)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Colorado 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. We hold no verified maximum weekly benefit for Colorado, so these rows apply 66.67% with no ceiling. Colorado does cap the weekly benefit, so at the higher wages the real benefit can be lower than shown. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Colorado deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Colorado 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.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102.5·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorWhich deadline governs a death caused by a motor-vehicle crash in Colorado is not established here. The two years published is Colorado's general wrongful-death period under C.R.S. §§ 13-80-102(1)(d) and 13-80-108(2). C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I), which gives a Colorado car-accident claim three years, covers "All tort actions for bodily injury or property damage arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle" and does not mention a death. We have not established whether it reaches a wrongful-death action, because neither of the two sources behind the three-year period addresses one. Treat the two years as the shorter of two readings rather than as the answer, and speak to a licensed Colorado attorney well inside it.
Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-80-102(1)(d), 13-80-108(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 8-43-103(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-80-102(1)(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the dog bite calculatorColorado's filing deadline for a motor-vehicle injury claim is three years, under C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I), not the two-year general personal-injury period in C.R.S. § 13-80-102(1)(a). The three-year provision covers "All tort actions for bodily injury or property damage arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle", and in City and County of Denver v. Gonzales the Colorado Supreme Court applied it in place of the general two-year period. The same paragraph makes an exception: it does "not apply to any action for strict liability, absolute liability, or failure to instruct or warn governed by the provisions of section 13-80-102 (1)(b) or section 13-80-106". A claim of that kind runs on a different period, which this page does not state because we have not read those two provisions. If any part of your claim is of that kind, speak to a licensed Colorado attorney before relying on three years.
Riding a bicycle? This provision can reach a cyclist's claim in Colorado only where a car or other motor vehicle was involved in the crash, and a crash that involved no motor vehicle runs on Colorado's general personal-injury period instead. The bicycle accident calculator shows the period a cyclist's claim in Colorado is given, and why.
C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)(I)·Last reviewed 2026-09-23
Open the motor vehicle claims calculatorColorado 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 Colorado is one of them. It applies the rate to gross wages, as 47 of the 51 do; the rest use after-tax earnings.
- 34 of the 51 jurisdictions have a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, and they run from $800 in Georgia to $2,431 in Iowa. Colorado is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Colorado'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. Colorado is in the first 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.