Massachusetts Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts. The maximum equals the statewide average weekly wage under M.G.L. c. 152, § 1(10) and is reset each October 1 by the Department of Industrial Accidents, which announces it in a Circular Letter published ON the effective date rather than ahead of it. The rate year that has now ended may not be carried forward. The 60% rate is applied to gross average weekly wage. If you were hurt during a rate year we still hold, enter your date of injury: the maximum that governs your claim is the one in force on that date, and it stays with the claim.
ch. 152, §§ 41-44·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“(1) Under the conditions and limitations specified in this chapter, the insurer and employee may, with the written consent of the employer if such employer is an experience modified insured, by an agreement pursuant to section nineteen, redeem any liability for compensation, in whole or in part, by the payment by the insurer of a lump sum amount.”
M.G.L. c. 152, § 48·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts, so these rows apply 60% with no ceiling. Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Massachusetts 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.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 4·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 229, § 2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 41·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the dog bite calculatorMassachusetts 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.
- Massachusetts pays 60% of the wage, as 3 of the 51 jurisdictions we track do. 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.
- 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. Massachusetts is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Massachusetts's 4 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 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. Massachusetts 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.