Hawaii Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Hawaii 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 Hawaii 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.
Effective January 1 to December 31, 2026.
Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 386-31, 386-32·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
“Upon application of the disabled employee, the employee's dependents or the employer, the director of labor and industrial relations may order that the periodic benefit payments be commuted to one or more lump sum payments equal to the present value at the time when the lump sum payments are due of the future benefit payments, computed at four per cent true discount compounded annually, if the director finds that such commutation is in the best interest of the employee or the employee's dependents and does not impose undue hardship upon the employer.”
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 386-54·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Hawaii 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 $1,860 a week the benefit is 66.67% of the wage; above it, Hawaii's maximum of $1,240 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Hawaii deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Hawaii 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.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 657-7·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorHaw. Rev. Stat. § 657-7.3·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorWhich deadline governs a death caused by a motor-vehicle crash in Hawaii is not established here. The two years published is the general wrongful-death period under HRS §§ 663-3 and 657-7. HRS § 431:10C-315(b), which can carry a Hawaii car-accident deadline past two years from the crash, says "No suit arising out of a motor vehicle accident shall be brought in tort more than the later of" two years after the accident or two years after the last payment of certain benefits, and its text does not mention a death. We have not established whether it reaches a wrongful-death action, and we hold nothing beyond the text. Treat the two years as the figure to work inside, and speak to a licensed Hawaii attorney well before it runs out.
Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 663-3, 657-7·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorHaw. Rev. Stat. § 386-82·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorHaw. Rev. Stat. § 657-7·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorHawaii's insurance code sets its own time limit for a motor-vehicle injury claim, HRS § 431:10C-315(b), beside the two-year general personal-injury period in HRS § 657-7. It reads: "No suit arising out of a motor vehicle accident shall be brought in tort more than the later of: (1) Two years after the date of the motor vehicle accident upon which the claim is based; (2) Two years after the date of the last payment of motor vehicle insurance or optional additional benefits; or (3) Two years after the date of the last payment of workers' compensation or public assistance benefits arising from the motor vehicle accident." Two years from the crash is therefore the EARLIEST your deadline can fall and not the deadline itself: where any of those benefits were still being paid after that point, the clock runs from the last payment, and only your own record of those payments fixes the later date. Its text does not say how it relates to HRS § 657-7, and HRS § 431:10C-306 limits which motor-vehicle injuries can be brought as a tort claim at all, so speak to a licensed Hawaii attorney before relying on either date.
Riding a motorcycle? This provision can reach a rider's claim in Hawaii only where a car or other motor vehicle was involved in the crash, and a crash that involved no motor vehicle runs on Hawaii's general personal-injury period instead. The motorcycle accident calculator shows the period a rider's claim in Hawaii is given, and why.
Riding a bicycle? This provision can reach a cyclist's claim in Hawaii only where a car or other motor vehicle was involved in the crash, and a crash that involved no motor vehicle runs on Hawaii's general personal-injury period instead. The bicycle accident calculator shows the period a cyclist's claim in Hawaii is given, and why.
HRS § 431:10C-315(b)·Last reviewed 2026-09-23
Open the motor vehicle claims calculatorHawaii 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 Hawaii 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, Hawaii's $1,240 is the 22nd 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.
- Hawaii'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. Hawaii 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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