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BENEFITS & PROCESS
What the Labor Code provides, and how a claim moves
The claim, start to finish
Every deadline, in order
Denied claims
What a denial does and does not mean
Temporary disability
Two-thirds of your wage, while you cannot work
Permanent disability
Ratings, weeks, and the life pension
Medical treatment
Your doctors, utilization review, the MPN
Settlements
C&R or Stipulations, and the five years
All benefits & process
INJURIES
What your injury may mean for your claim
Low back
Ratings, surgery, return to work
Shoulder
Rotator cuff and overhead work
Knee
Meniscus, ligaments, kneeling trades
Traumatic brain injury
Concussion through catastrophic
Carpal tunnel & RSI
Cumulative trauma, and when it counts
Catastrophic injuries
240 weeks, life care, life pension
All injuries
YOUR JOB
The injuries your industry sees most
Construction
Falls, heights, third-party claims
Warehouse & logistics
Lifting, forklifts, repetitive strain
Healthcare
Patient handling, needlesticks
Restaurants & food service
Burns, slips, cumulative trauma
Janitorial
Chemicals and repetitive motion
Agriculture
Heat, machinery, pesticides
Every industry
FREE TOOLS
Calculators and guides, nothing to sign up for
Weekly benefits
What you may be owed each week
Permanent disability
Rating to weeks to dollars
Average weekly wage
The number every benefit multiplies from
Medical mileage
76¢ a mile from July 1, 2026
Deadlines
Every clock from your date of injury
Case value
A range, with the statutes
C&R or Stipulations?
Two structures, compared
Should you call a lawyer?
An honest two-minute triage
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RESOURCES AND TOOLS
Eleven calculators and a 2-minute triage. Every number carries its Labor Code section, every tool tells you when your input is probably wrong, and nothing you type is sent anywhere — they run entirely in your browser.
None of them will tell you what your case is worth as a single figure, and the case-value page explains why that refusal is the most useful thing on it.
Nothing leaves your browser
Every figure with its statute
Also in Spanish and Korean
LIVE — WHAT AM I OWED EACH WEEK?
Your average weekly wage
$
YEAR OF INJURY
2026
2025
2024
$200
$3,400
TEMPORARY DISABILITY
$800.00
per week · two-thirds of your wage
104 WEEKS AT THAT RATE
$83,200
the § 4656(c)(2) limit
Two-thirds of $1,200 = $800.00
2026 rail: $264.61 – $1,764.11
An estimate, not legal advice, and it runs entirely in your browser. Your date of injury sets your rail for the life of the claim — except § 4661.5, which recomputes TTD paid two or more years later at the current rail. How that works
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3 tools
THE TRIAGE
Eight factual questions and an honest sort into three routes — including the one where the free state Information & Assistance officer can probably handle it. Never a verdict on your case; no website can give one.
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DEADLINES
Your date of injury in, every clock that applies to you out, sorted by urgency with the statute for each — including the two miscounted most often.
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WEEKLY BENEFITS
Temporary disability, permanent disability, the life pension, mileage, and the penalties for paying you late, with the Labor Code section beside every number.
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6 tools
AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE
Every benefit multiplies out of this one number, and the law gives four ways to compute it. Second jobs aggregate, overtime counts, and the carrier’s figure controls until someone challenges it.
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PERMANENT DISABILITY
Your final percentage becomes weeks, each week pays a rate capped at $290 since 2014, and the tool says when the rating itself looks wrong.
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RATING STRING
Paste the row of numbers that determines your money and we explain all six parts, check the arithmetic, and convert it to dollars.
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WAGE LOSS
Temporary partial disability is two-thirds of what you lost, not two-thirds of your wage. The benefit people miss most often.
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MILEAGE
The rate follows the date you traveled, not your date of injury — and 2026 changed mid-year. Handles a dated trip list exactly.
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DEATH BENEFITS
The law pays by who depended on the person who died, not by fault — and, payments to totally dependent minor children do not stop at the maximum.
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CASE VALUE
It will not give you a single figure, and the reason why is the most useful thing on the page. It separates the components a statute can compute from the one nobody can — future medical care.
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TWO STRUCTURES
The indemnity is the same figure under both. What differs is future medical care and the § 5410 right to reopen — five years that run from the date of injury, not the award.
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Every rate is read from one canonical rate record with its source attached, and a build check fails if any tool drifts from it. How we research this site.
WHEN THE TOOL AND THE CHECK DISAGREE
The calculators use the formulas the Labor Code gives the claims administrator. If your check comes in lower than the tool’s number, the difference usually starts in one of three places, and each of them can be checked.
Temporary disability is two-thirds of your average weekly wage. Overtime counts, and so can pay from a second job. Leave either out, and every check after that is short.
The weekly minimum and maximum come from the year you were hurt, not the year you are paid. The exception is temporary disability paid two years or more after the injury, which uses the current year’s figures.
The first payment is due within 14 days of the employer knowing of the injury and the disability, then every two weeks. A late payment generally has to be increased by 10 percent, without your asking.
AN EXAMPLE, NOT YOUR CASE
The same job, with and without $160 a week of overtime
Wage $1,200
overtime counted
$800.00 a week
Wage $1,040
overtime left out
$693.33 a week
$106.67
short, every week
$11,093.68
over 104 weeks, the limit for most injuries
Two-thirds of each wage, both inside the 2026 weekly minimum and maximum. Work out your own wage
WHERE A CALCULATOR STOPS
Every tool here assumes the facts you type in are the facts your claim will be decided on. Six things decide whether they are, and none of them is arithmetic.
Is the claim accepted?
Every tool assumes it is. The claims administrator has 90 days from the claim form to reject the claim, or the injury is presumed compensable, and up to $10,000 of treatment has to be authorized while it decides.
Denied claims
Which medical report is rated?
The permanent disability tools start from the impairment in a doctor’s report. A report can leave out a body part or misread your history, and it can be questioned before anyone rates it.
The QME process
Is part of it apportioned?
If a doctor finds that part of your permanent disability came from something else, such as an earlier injury or a condition you already had, the award can be reduced by that share. The tools assume none of it is.
Apportionment
Was a payment unreasonably delayed?
A payment unreasonably delayed or refused can be increased by up to 25 percent, to a limit of $10,000. Whether a delay was unreasonable is a judgment, not a calculation.
Late payments and penalties
Is someone else responsible?
If someone other than your employer caused the injury, such as another driver, a property owner, or the maker of a machine, you may also have a civil claim against them. It can pay for pain and suffering, which workers’ compensation does not.
Third-party claims
What is your future medical care worth?
A Compromise and Release closes future medical care for a lump sum; Stipulations leave it open. What that care is worth turns on your doctors’ reports and your own life, not on a formula.
C&R or Stipulations?
Any one of them is a reason to call before you rely on a number.
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THE FIRST CALL
You do not need your paperwork to start. If you have it, three things make a fifteen-minute call go further.
And any letter that came with it. Together they show what you are being paid, and when.
With any overtime, and from any second job. That is the wage your disability payments are figured from.
Nothing you type here is sent to us, so write the number down or keep the page open. It gives us both a place to start.
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Every tool on this page is reviewed by Jamey Teitell, Partner & Trial Attorney. Admitted in California in 1996, with more than twenty-five years of California workers’ compensation law. Both attorneys, both State Bar records
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