Utah Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Utah 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 Utah 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 Utah. The July 1, 2026 rate was not located in an accessible official publication, and the $1,110 figure that ran to June 30, 2026 has expired.
One year is the earliest a Utah workers' compensation time limit can fall, and it is the limit for medical expenses, not for a claim for disability benefits. Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a) entitles an employee to be compensated for a medical expense only where the employee submits it to the employer or insurance carrier "within one year from the later of: (I) the day on which the medical expense is incurred; or (II) the day on which the employee knows or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known that the medical expense is related to the industrial accident." A claim for temporary total, temporary partial, permanent partial or permanent total disability benefits is barred unless the employee "files an application for hearing with the Division of Adjudication no later than six years from the date of the accident", and the employee must be able to meet the burden of proof "by no later than 12 years from the date of the accident" (§ 34A-2-417(2)). For death benefits, "A claim for death benefits is barred unless an application for hearing is filed within one year of the date of death of the employee." (§ 34A-2-417(3)). Ask a licensed Utah attorney which limit applies to your claim.
Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a)(ii)(B)·Last reviewed 2026-10-04
Utah Code § 34A-2-407(3)·Last reviewed 2026-10-04
“Notwithstanding Subsection (1) and Section 34A-2-108, an administrative law judge shall review and may approve the agreement of the parties to enter into a full and final settlement by means of a: (a) compromise settlement of disputed medical, disability, or death benefit entitlements under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act; or (b) commutation and settlement of reasonable future medical, disability, or death benefit entitlements under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act, by means of a lump sum payment, structured settlement, or other appropriate payout.”
Utah Code § 34A-2-420(4)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Utah 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 Utah, so these rows apply 66.67% with no ceiling. Utah 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 Utah deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Utah 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.
Utah's four years comes from Utah Code § 78B-2-307, which opens “An action may be brought within four years:” and lists, at subsection (4), “(4) for relief not otherwise provided for by law.” The one court statement read for this page on which period governs an injury claim is from the Utah Court of Appeals. Penrose v. Ross, 2003 UT App 157, was about whether an amended complaint that named a different defendant related back to the original complaint, and in setting out its premise the court wrote: “The traffic accident from which this suit arose occurred on November 21, 1996. Thus, the statute of limitations for Penrose's claim of negligence expired on November 21, 2000. See Utah Code Ann. § 78-12-25(3) (2002) ("An action may be brought within four years: . . . for relief not otherwise provided for by law.");” It cited the provision under its earlier number, § 78-12-25(3), in the words subsection (4) prints today. That was the premise of a case about something else, not the question the court decided, and no Utah Supreme Court opinion on the period was read for this page. Ask a licensed Utah attorney which period applies to your claim.
Utah Code § 78B-2-307(4)·Last reviewed 2026-09-28
Open the personal injury calculatorUtah Code § 78B-3-404·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorUtah Code § 78B-2-304(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorOne year is the earliest a Utah workers' compensation time limit can fall, and it is the limit for medical expenses, not for a claim for disability benefits. Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a) entitles an employee to be compensated for a medical expense only where the employee submits it to the employer or insurance carrier "within one year from the later of: (I) the day on which the medical expense is incurred; or (II) the day on which the employee knows or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known that the medical expense is related to the industrial accident." A claim for temporary total, temporary partial, permanent partial or permanent total disability benefits is barred unless the employee "files an application for hearing with the Division of Adjudication no later than six years from the date of the accident", and the employee must be able to meet the burden of proof "by no later than 12 years from the date of the accident" (§ 34A-2-417(2)). For death benefits, "A claim for death benefits is barred unless an application for hearing is filed within one year of the date of death of the employee." (§ 34A-2-417(3)). Ask a licensed Utah attorney which limit applies to your claim.
Utah Code § 34A-2-417(1)(a)(ii)(B)·Last reviewed 2026-10-04
Open the workers compensation calculatorUtah Code § 78B-2-307(4)·Last reviewed 2026-09-28
Open the slip and fall calculatorUtah 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 Utah 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. Utah is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Utah allows at least 1 year to file, and that is the earliest its deadline can fall rather than a fixed limit, because the governing provision also runs from a later event. This page does not set that against the 2 years that 24 jurisdictions publish, because for those we hold a period and no later event, which is a different claim. 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. Utah 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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