# Tools for injured workers **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](/resources/case-value-estimator/). --- ## Start here ## **[Should you call a lawyer? →](/resources/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. ## **[What are my deadlines? →](/resources/deadline-calculator/)** **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. ## **[What am I owed? →](/resources/benefits-calculator/)** **Temporary disability, permanent disability, the life pension, mileage, and the penalties for paying you late**, with the Labor Code section beside every number — § 4453 (the 2026 rail: $264.61 to $1,764.11) · § 5412. 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. --- ## The money ## **[Your average weekly wage →](/resources/aww-calculator/)** **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. ## **[Permanent disability: weeks and dollars →](/resources/pd-calculator/)** **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. ## **[Decode my rating string →](/resources/rating-string-decoder/)** **Paste the row of numbers that determines your money** and we explain all six parts, check the arithmetic, and convert it to dollars. We built it because we could not find it published anywhere else. ## **[Light duty pays less — what are you owed? →](/resources/wage-loss-calculator/)** **Temporary partial disability is two-thirds of what you lost, not two-thirds of your wage**. The benefit people miss most often. ## **[Medical mileage →](/resources/mileage-calculator/)** **The rate follows the date you traveled, not your date of injury** — and 2026 changed mid-year. Handles a dated trip list exactly. ## **[Death benefits →](/resources/death-benefits-calculator/)** **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. --- ## Settlement ## **[What is my case worth? →](/resources/case-value-estimator/)** **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. ## **[C&R or Stipulations? →](/resources/settlement-comparator/)** **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. --- **If a number came out wrong, that is worth a call.** **Every tool exists in Spanish and Korean.** 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.](/firm/how-we-write/) **(213) 380-9310** **[The reference library](/resources/)** · **[What to do after a work injury](/what-to-do-after-a-work-injury/)** · **[Free case review](/contact/)** **[En español →](/es/recursos/herramientas/)** · **[한국어 →](/ko/resources/tools/)** ### Sources § 4650 · § 4653 · § 4656(c)(2) · § 4600(e)(2) · § 5405 · § 4453(c) · § 4658(d) · § 4654 · § 4703.5 · § 4702