Washington Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Washington 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 Washington 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.
RCW 51.32.060; RCW 51.32.090·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
We do not hold a verified weekly maximum for Washington, which runs on MONTHLY wages. The verified 2026-2027 ceiling is $9,981.00 per month (120% of the $8,317.50 state average monthly wage), and the research directs that Washington not be forced into a flat weekly-cap field. The 60% rate is only the base family-status tier: for injuries on or after July 1, 2026 the rate runs from 60% for an unmarried worker with no children up to 75%, so this estimate can also understate.
RCW 51.28.050 generally requires a claim within 1 year of the injury. Occupational-disease claims run on a separate 2-year period under RCW 51.28.055, which this single figure cannot hold.
RCW 51.28.050·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
We hold no verified deadline for reporting a workplace injury to an employer in Washington. 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 Washington workers' compensation agency what the reporting deadline is before you rely on any date.
“(1) Notwithstanding RCW 51.04.060 or any other provision of this title, an injured worker who is at least fifty years of age may choose from the following: (a) To continue to receive all benefits for which they are eligible under this title, (b) to participate in vocational training if eligible, or (c) to initiate and agree to a resolution of their claim with a claim resolution settlement.”
RCW 51.04.063(1)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Washington 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 Washington, so these rows apply 60% with no ceiling. Washington 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 Washington deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Washington 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.
RCW 4.16.080(2)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorRCW 4.16.350·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorRCW 51.28.050 generally requires a claim within 1 year of the injury. Occupational-disease claims run on a separate 2-year period under RCW 51.28.055, which this single figure cannot hold.
RCW 51.28.050·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
Open the workers compensation calculatorWashington 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.
- Washington pays 60% 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.
- 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. Washington is one of the 17 we hold no verified current figure for, so this page does not rank it.
- Washington'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. Washington 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.