Mississippi Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi. The Commission's current official weekly maximum was not located in an accessible rate notice, and the $657 figure this data previously carried was not confirmed as current and may not be published as such.
§ 71-3-35·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
The Mississippi Code is published only through LexisNexis, which serves its text to a browser running scripts; no official copy was readable. So this page does not say whether or how a claim can be settled for a lump sum in Mississippi. Ask a workers' comp attorney in Mississippi whether yours can be.
What Mississippi 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 Mississippi, so these rows apply 66.67% with no ceiling. Mississippi 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 Mississippi deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Mississippi 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 15-1-36·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorMiss. Code Ann. §§ 11-7-13, 15-1-49·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 71-3-35·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorMiss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorMississippi 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 Mississippi 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. Mississippi is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Mississippi'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. Mississippi is in the third 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.