Texas Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Texas 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 Texas 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.
Texas caps each benefit class separately, effective October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027: temporary income, lifetime income and death benefits at 100% of the state average weekly wage, impairment and supplemental income benefits at 70% of it. The temporary income benefit maximum is the headline figure. The rate is 70% of gross; qualifying low-wage employees receive 75% for the first 26 weeks.
Tex. Lab. Code §§ 408.061, 408.103·Last reviewed 2026-09-21
§ 409.001·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“(a) A settlement may not provide for payment of benefits in a lump sum except as provided by Section 408.128.”
Tex. Lab. Code § 408.005·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Texas 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 $1,878 a week the benefit is 70% of the wage; above it, Texas's maximum of $1,314 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Texas deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Texas 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.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 74.251·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(b)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorTex. Lab. Code 409.003·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorTex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003(a)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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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.
- Texas pays 70% 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 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, Texas's $1,314 is the 18th 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.
- Texas'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. Texas is in the second 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.