Michigan Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Michigan 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 Michigan 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.
The calculator takes a gross wage, so for this state it applies the rate to a figure larger than the one the statute uses, and says so beside the estimate. The real weekly benefit is lower than the one shown.
MCL 418.313·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Michigan pays 80% of AFTER-TAX average weekly wage, not 80% of gross. Maximum effective January 1 to December 31, 2026.
MCL 418.355; MCL 418.313·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
MCL § 418.381·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“After 6 months' time has elapsed from the date of a personal injury, any liability resulting from the personal injury may be redeemed by the payment of a lump sum by agreement of the parties, subject to the approval of a worker's compensation magistrate.”
MCL 418.835·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Michigan 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 $1,502 a week the benefit is 80% of the wage; above it, Michigan's maximum of $1,201 sets the benefit instead. Michigan applies its rate to after-tax earnings and these wages are gross, so the figures overstate the benefit. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Michigan deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Michigan 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.
MCL § 600.5805(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMCL §§ 600.5805(8), 600.5838a·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMCL § 600.5805; § 600.2922·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculatorMCL § 418.381·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMichigan 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.
- Michigan pays 80% 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 after-tax earnings, as 4 of the 51 do; the rest apply it to gross wages.
- Of the 34 jurisdictions with a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, Michigan's $1,201 is the 23rd 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.
- Michigan'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. Michigan 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.