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Idaho · State edition

Idaho Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator

Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Idaho 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.

Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
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Employment & wages
Before your injury
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Benefit maximums are set by the date you were hurt, not by today’s date.
Idaho max weekly benefit: $1,021.50/wkIdaho replaces 67% of gross wages.
Basic TTD maximum, effective January 1 to December 31, 2026. Idaho publishes a 67% basic replacement rate; statutory calculations also carry floors and dependency supplements.
Time out of work
Weeks completely unable to work
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Injury & disability
Type and severity
Disability type
Medical costs
All injury-related expenses
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Your estimate is shown as one lump-sum value. Idaho's statute on settling a workers' comp claim, Idaho Code § 72-404, reads: “(1) Pursuant to the provisions of this section, parties may compromise and settle claims by way of agreements for lump sum payments, future payments, accrued income benefits, future income benefits, medical cost reimbursements, and other benefits payable under Idaho's worker's compensation laws.”
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Total Estimated WC Value
$35,648
Permanent impairment award not included. This total is your wage replacement and medical costs. It does not include anything for the lasting impairment itself.
Breakdown
Weekly benefit rate$804/wk
Temp. total disability (12 wks)$9,648
Perm. partial disability (15%, Back / Spine)Pending verification
Past medical costs$18,000
Future medical costs$8,000
Total estimated value$35,648
Workers' compensation benefits do not include pain and suffering damages. This estimate reflects WC benefit value only.
Your estimate pays the weekly benefit for every week you entered. A state can cap how many weeks temporary total disability runs, we hold no verified limit for any state, and this estimate applies none. A long recovery therefore reads high here: past a state's limit, each further week adds money that cannot be paid. Your state workers' compensation agency or an attorney can tell you how many weeks apply to your claim.
We are not putting a dollar figure on the permanent impairment part of this claim. Idaho sets its own schedule of weeks for each body part, we do not yet hold a verified copy of it, and the schedules we have read differ from each other by as much as five times on the same injury. The figures above are your wage replacement and your medical costs, which we can state. Your impairment rating and your state's schedule together set the permanent award, so a workers' compensation attorney or the Idaho workers' compensation agency can price that part for you.
Deadlines in Idaho
Report your injury to your employer first
Report the injury within 60 days under Idaho Code § 72-701.
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1 year to file the claim itself. This is a separate, longer deadline from the reporting one above.
This estimate is for informational and planning purposes only. It is not legal advice, financial advice, or a guarantee of any outcome. Every case is different. Consult a licensed attorney in your state for advice specific to your situation.
Verified state law

What Idaho 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.

Weekly benefit rate
67% of wages

Idaho Code § 72-408·Last reviewed 2026-07-28

The wage the rate is applied to
Gross weekly wage

Idaho Code § 72-408·Last reviewed 2026-07-28

Maximum weekly benefit
$1,021.50

Basic TTD maximum, effective January 1 to December 31, 2026. Idaho publishes a 67% basic replacement rate; statutory calculations also carry floors and dependency supplements.

Idaho Code §§ 72-408, 72-409·Last reviewed 2026-07-28

Filing a claim
1 year

Idaho Code 72-706·Last reviewed 2026-07-28

Reporting the injury
Report the injury within 60 days under Idaho Code § 72-701.

Idaho Code § 72-701·Last reviewed 2026-08-09

Settling for a lump sum
Provided for by statute

“(1) Pursuant to the provisions of this section, parties may compromise and settle claims by way of agreements for lump sum payments, future payments, accrued income benefits, future income benefits, medical cost reimbursements, and other benefits payable under Idaho's worker's compensation laws.”

Idaho Code § 72-404·Last reviewed 2026-10-07

The rate and the maximum, in dollars

What Idaho 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.

$500 a week
$335 / week
$4,020 over 12 weeks
$800 a week
$536 / week
$6,432 over 12 weeks
$1,200 a week
$804 / week
$9,648 over 12 weeks
$1,600 a week
$1,022 / week
$12,264 over 12 weeks
Held at the maximum
$2,000 a week
$1,022 / week
$12,264 over 12 weeks
Held at the maximum
$2,500 a week
$1,022 / week
$12,264 over 12 weeks
Held at the maximum

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 $1,525 a week the benefit is 67% of the wage; above it, Idaho's maximum of $1,021.50 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.

Filing deadlines

Every Idaho deadline we hold

A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Idaho 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.

Personal injury
2 years

Idaho Code § 5-219(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Medical malpractice
2 years

Idaho Code § 5-219(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Wrongful death
2 years

Idaho Code § 5-219(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Workers compensation
1 year

Idaho Code 72-706·Last reviewed 2026-07-28

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Slip and fall
2 years

Idaho Code § 5-219(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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Dog bite
2 years

Idaho Code § 5-219(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27

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How this state compares

Idaho 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.

  • Idaho pays 67% of the wage, as no other jurisdiction we track does. The most common rate is 66.67%, paid in 39. 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, Idaho's $1,021.50 is the 29th 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.
  • Idaho's 1 year to file is shorter than the 2 years that 24 jurisdictions use, so there is less time than a reader comparing states might expect. 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. Idaho 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

Idaho Workers' Comp questions

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.