Rhode Island Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-33-17(a)(1), as amended by P.L. 2021 ch. 402 § 2 and P.L. 2021 ch. 403 § 2·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-33-17(a)(1), as amended by P.L. 2021 ch. 402 § 2 and P.L. 2021 ch. 403 § 2·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
We do not hold a verified current maximum weekly benefit for Rhode Island. The maximum is 125% of the state average weekly wage under R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-33-17(a)(1), raised to the next whole dollar, and is reset each October 1 by the Department of Labor and Training, whose figure for the current rate year could not be recovered from the agency or from the Internet Archive. The rate year that has now ended may not be carried forward. Rhode Island pays 62% of average weekly BASE (gross) wages for total incapacity, for injuries on or after January 1, 2022. Injuries on or before December 31, 2021 are still paid at 75% of SPENDABLE (after-tax) earnings and those claims are still running, so two rules are live at once and the date of injury decides which one applies. The maximum attaches to the date of injury and stays with the claim for as long as compensation is payable, so if you were hurt during a rate year we still hold, enter your date of injury and the estimate uses the ceiling that governs you.
§ 28-33-30·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“(a)(1) The parties may petition the workers' compensation court for an order approving a settlement of the future liability for a lump sum or structured-type periodic payment over a period of time.”
R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-33-25(a)(1)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island, so these rows apply 62% with no ceiling. Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Rhode Island 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.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-1-14(b)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorR.I. Gen. Laws § 9-1-14.1·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorR.I. Gen. Laws § 10-7-2·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorR.I. Gen. Laws § 28-35-57·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorR.I. Gen. Laws § 9-1-14(b)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorRhode Island 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.
- Rhode Island pays 62% 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.
- 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. Rhode Island is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Rhode Island'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. Rhode Island 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.