New Mexico Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under New Mexico 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 New Mexico 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 New Mexico. The official publication carried rates only through December 2025, and the $1,093.83 figure for 2025 may not be carried forward into 2026.
N.M. Stat. 52-1-31 generally requires a claim within 1 year after the employer or insurer fails or refuses to pay a benefit, which is a different starting point from the date of injury.
N.M. Stat. 52-1-31·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
§ 52-1-29·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“D. The worker and employer may elect to resolve a claim for injury with a lump-sum payment to the worker for all or a portion of past, present and future payments of compensation benefits, medical benefits or both in exchange for a full and final release or an appropriate release of the employer from liability for such compromised benefits.”
NMSA 1978, § 52-5-12(D)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What New Mexico 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 New Mexico, so these rows apply 66.67% with no ceiling. New Mexico 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 New Mexico deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the New Mexico 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.
N.M. Stat. § 37-1-8·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorN.M. Stat. § 41-5-13·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorN.M. Stat. § 41-2-2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorN.M. Stat. 52-1-31 generally requires a claim within 1 year after the employer or insurer fails or refuses to pay a benefit, which is a different starting point from the date of injury.
N.M. Stat. 52-1-31·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorN.M. Stat. § 37-1-8·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorNew Mexico 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 New Mexico 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. New Mexico is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- New Mexico'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. New Mexico 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.