Tennessee Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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.
Temporary-benefits maximum, effective July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027. Tennessee sets a separate permanent-benefits maximum of $1,353.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-102·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
We hold no verified deadline for reporting a workplace injury to an employer in Tennessee. Our research run established none from a primary source, so this is unknown rather than absent. Report the injury to your employer as soon as you can, and ask your employer or the Tennessee workers' compensation agency what the reporting deadline is before you rely on any date.
“(a) A workers' compensation judge may approve a proposed settlement among the parties if: (1) The settlement agreement has been signed by the parties; and (2) The workers' compensation judge has determined that the employee is receiving, substantially, the benefits provided by this chapter, or, in cases subject to subsection (d), if the workers' compensation judge has determined that the settlement is in the best interest of the employee.” The current code is published only on LexisNexis, which this session could not read; the text is the section as enacted in 2013, and later amendments are not checked.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-240(a), as enacted by 2013 Tenn. Pub. Acts ch. 289, § 84·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Tennessee 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 $2,233 a week the benefit is 66.67% of the wage; above it, Tennessee's maximum of $1,488.30 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Tennessee deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Tennessee 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.
The 1 year shown is the earliest a Tennessee deadline for this claim can fall, not the deadline itself, because the same statute gives two years where the conditions it sets out, which turn on a criminal prosecution, are met. Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2) reads: "A cause of action listed in subdivision (a)(1) shall be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of action accrued, if: (A) Criminal charges are brought against any person alleged to have caused or contributed to the injury; (B) The conduct, transaction, or occurrence that gives rise to the cause of action for civil damages is the subject of a criminal prosecution commenced within one (1) year by: (i) A law enforcement officer; (ii) A district attorney general; or (iii) A grand jury; and (C) The cause of action is brought by the person injured by the criminal conduct against the party prosecuted for such conduct." Subsection (a)(3) adds: "This subsection (a) shall be strictly construed." Which charges meet those conditions is not established here. Work inside the one year, and ask a licensed Tennessee attorney whether the two-year period applies to your claim.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Open the personal injury calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 29-26-116·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorThe 1 year shown is Tennessee's published wrongful-death period, and whether a two-year period in the same section can reach a wrongful-death claim is not established here. Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2) begins: "A cause of action listed in subdivision (a)(1) shall be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of action accrued, if:" Its last condition, (a)(2)(C), reads: "The cause of action is brought by the person injured by the criminal conduct against the party prosecuted for such conduct." A wrongful-death claim arises from a person's death, and nothing we have read says whether (a)(2) reaches one. Work inside the one year, and ask a licensed Tennessee attorney whether the two-year period can apply to your claim.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorTenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-203·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorThe 1 year shown is the earliest a Tennessee deadline for this claim can fall, not the deadline itself, because the same statute gives two years where the conditions it sets out, which turn on a criminal prosecution, are met. Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2) reads: "A cause of action listed in subdivision (a)(1) shall be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of action accrued, if: (A) Criminal charges are brought against any person alleged to have caused or contributed to the injury; (B) The conduct, transaction, or occurrence that gives rise to the cause of action for civil damages is the subject of a criminal prosecution commenced within one (1) year by: (i) A law enforcement officer; (ii) A district attorney general; or (iii) A grand jury; and (C) The cause of action is brought by the person injured by the criminal conduct against the party prosecuted for such conduct." Subsection (a)(3) adds: "This subsection (a) shall be strictly construed." Which charges meet those conditions is not established here. Work inside the one year, and ask a licensed Tennessee attorney whether the two-year period applies to your claim.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Open the slip and fall calculatorThe 1 year shown is the earliest a Tennessee deadline for this claim can fall, not the deadline itself, because the same statute gives two years where the conditions it sets out, which turn on a criminal prosecution, are met. Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(2) reads: "A cause of action listed in subdivision (a)(1) shall be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of action accrued, if: (A) Criminal charges are brought against any person alleged to have caused or contributed to the injury; (B) The conduct, transaction, or occurrence that gives rise to the cause of action for civil damages is the subject of a criminal prosecution commenced within one (1) year by: (i) A law enforcement officer; (ii) A district attorney general; or (iii) A grand jury; and (C) The cause of action is brought by the person injured by the criminal conduct against the party prosecuted for such conduct." Subsection (a)(3) adds: "This subsection (a) shall be strictly construed." Which charges meet those conditions is not established here. Work inside the one year, and ask a licensed Tennessee attorney whether the two-year period applies to your claim.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104(a)(1)(A)·Last reviewed 2026-09-24
Open the dog bite calculatorTennessee 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 Tennessee is one of them. It applies the rate to gross wages, as 47 of the 51 do; the rest use after-tax earnings.
- Of the 34 jurisdictions with a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, Tennessee's $1,488.30 is the 13th 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.
- Tennessee'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. Tennessee 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.