Permanent-disability rates, scheduled weeks, temporary maximums and attorney-fee caps for twenty states, each one checked against that state's own agency bulletin. Run the same 15% impairment through all of them and the award ranges from about $167,800 to about $20,300. The arithmetic for every state is printed below.
Rates verified September 18, 2026 · verification policy · changelogSorted by permanent-disability weekly rate, highest first. The four states underneath don't use a weekly rate at all, so ranking them against the others would be meaningless. Each row links to that state's full schedule, statute citations and calculator.
| State | Permanent rate | Temporary max | Scheduled weeks | In effect | Attorney fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | $2,237 per week | $2,431 | Arm 250 · Hand 190 · Shoulder 400 · Whole body 500 | 7/2026–6/2027 | Commissioner approval Iowa Code §10A.327 |
| North Carolina | $1,446 per week | $1,446 | Arm 240 · Hand 200 · Leg 200 · Back 300 | 2026 calendar year | Commission approval 25% customary, not statutory |
| Pennsylvania | $1,394 per week | $1,394 | Arm 410 · Hand 335 · Leg 410 | 2026 calendar year | 20% Act §442 |
| Florida | $1,358 per week (max comp rate) | $1,358 | 2–6 per rating point | 2026 calendar year | 20/15/10/5% sliding Fla. Stat. §440.34 |
| Tennessee | $1,353.00 per week | $1,488.30 | 450 (whole body) | injuries 7/1/2026–6/30/2027 | 20% Tenn. Code Ann. §50-6-226 |
| New York | $1,281.50 per week | $1,281.50 | Arm 312 · Hand 244 · Leg 288 | 7/2026–6/2027 | Board approval required WCL §24 |
| New Jersey | $1,199 per week | $1,199 | Arm 330 · Hand 260 · Leg 315 · Non-scheduled 600 | 2026 calendar year | 25% N.J.S.A. 34:15-64 |
| Illinois | $1,084.66 per week | $2,045.63 | Arm 253 · Hand 205 · Whole person 500 | PPD 7/2025–6/2026 · TTD 7/15/2026–1/14/2027 | 20% 820 ILCS 305/16a |
| Texas | $890 per week | $1,271 | 300 (whole body) | FY Oct 2025–Sep 2026 | 25% Labor Code §408.221 |
| Georgia | $800 per week | $800 | Arm 225 · Hand 160 · Leg 225 | injuries on/after 7/1/2023 | 25% OCGA §34-9-108 |
| Missouri | $678.18 per week | $1,294.71 | Shoulder 232 · Knee 160 · Body as a whole 400 | injuries 7/1/2026–6/30/2027 | No statutory percentage §287.260 — 'fair and reasonable' |
| Colorado | $459.45 per week (scheduled) | $1,464.12 | 400 (whole person) | 7/2026–6/2027 | Above 25% presumed unreasonable C.R.S. §8-43-403 |
| Wisconsin | $454 per week | $1,375 | Arm 500 · Hand 400 · Knee 425 | injuries on/after 4/1/2026 | 20% Wis. Stat. §102.26 |
| Ohio | $427 per week | $1,281 | Arm 225 · Hand 175 · Leg 200 | 2026 calendar year | No fixed cap Industrial Commission approval |
| Oklahoma | $375 per week | $1,128.66 | 360 (whole body) | 1/1/2026–12/31/2026 | 20% PPD, 10% TTD 85A O.S. §82 |
| California | $290 per week | $1,764.11 | 3–16 per PD point, cumulative | 2026 calendar year | 9–12% typical WCAB-approved |
| These four don't pay by the week. Comparing their headline figure against the rates above would be an error. | |||||
| Indiana Dollars per degree | $1,970 per degree (1–10) | $878 | Impairment measured in degrees, each worth a set dollar amount that rises in tiers. | 7/2026–6/2027 | 20% then 15% IC §22-3-1-4 |
| Michigan Wage loss | $1,201 per week | $1,201 | Specific loss only: arm 269 · hand 215 | 2026 calendar year | Board-regulated 30% customary on disputed benefits |
| Washington Dollar schedule | $270,966.87 at 100% impairment | $9,981.00 | A fixed dollar figure per body part or per percent of impairment. Your wages don't change the award. | DOI 7/2026–6/2027 | 30% of the increase secured RCW 51.52.120 |
| Arizona Months × rate | $6,131.00 max average monthly wage | $6,131.00 | Months: arm 60 · hand 50 · leg 50 | 2026 injuries | 25% A.R.S. §23-1069 |
Most charts on this topic quietly assume every state multiplies weeks by a rate. Sixteen of these twenty do. The other four work so differently that a shared column would be a lie:
This is the comparison the weekly-rate column can't give you. Take one 15% permanent whole-body impairment, assume the worker earns enough to hit the state cap, and run each state's own formula. Our arithmetic, from the rates and week counts on each state page:
| Iowa — 500-week whole body | 75 weeks × $2,237 | $167,775 |
| New Jersey — 600 non-scheduled weeks | 90 weeks × $1,199 | $107,910 |
| Tennessee — 450-week whole body | 67.5 weeks × $1,353 | $91,328 |
| Illinois — 500-week whole person | 75 weeks × $1,084.66 | $81,350 |
| Colorado — 400-week whole person, age 40 | 15% × 1.40 age factor × 400 weeks = 84 weeks × $804.46 | $67,575 |
| North Carolina — 300-week back | 45 weeks × $1,446 | $65,070 |
| Missouri — 400-week body as a whole | 60 weeks × $678.18 | $40,691 |
| Washington — dollar schedule | 15% × $270,966.87 | $40,645 |
| Texas — 3 weeks per rating point | 45 weeks × $890 | $40,050 |
| Georgia — 300-week whole body | 45 weeks × $800 | $36,000 |
| Indiana — 15 degrees, tiered | (10 × $1,970) + (5 × $2,197) | $30,685 |
| Oklahoma — 360-week whole body | 54 weeks × $375 | $20,250 |
| Highest divided by lowest | $167,775 ÷ $20,250 | 8.3× |
Iowa pays more than eight times what Oklahoma pays for the same medical finding. Nothing about the injury changed. Only the state did.
Two caveats we'd rather state than bury. Week counts aren't strictly equivalent across states, because what one calls whole-body another calls whole-person or non-scheduled, and the qualifying criteria differ. These figures also assume the cap-hitting wage. Below that, the rate is a percentage of your actual wage and the gaps narrow.
Search any state's comp maximum and you will usually find one headline number. It is often the temporary maximum, and in many states the rate that prices your permanent award is a fraction of it.
| State | Permanent rate | Temporary max | Permanent as a share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $290 | $1,764.11 | 16% |
| Colorado | $459.45 | $1,464.12 | 31% |
| Wisconsin | $454 | $1,375 | 33% |
| Oklahoma | $375 | $1,128.66 | 33% |
| Ohio | $427 | $1,281 | 33% |
| Missouri | $678.18 | $1,294.71 | 52% |
| Illinois | $1,084.66 | $2,045.63 | 53% |
| Texas | $890 | $1,271 | 70% |
| Tennessee | $1,353 | $1,488.30 | 91% |
California is the extreme case at 16%. Its permanent-disability rate is fixed in statute and isn't wage-indexed, so it has drifted further below the temporary rate every year. Colorado, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Ohio all sit near a third. Tennessee, at 91%, is the outlier in the other direction.
So when an adjuster or a website quotes your state's comp maximum, check which benefit it applies to before you value anything against it.
It cannot tell you what your claim is worth. A comp award is the rating times the schedule times the rate, and the rating is a medical opinion that gets fought over. Nothing here covers the settlement of disputed claims, where a lump sum buys out future medical exposure and the arithmetic changes entirely.
It also leaves out thirty-one states, because we publish a state only after verifying its rules against primary sources. The states we have finished are the ones in this table.
Open your state's page from the table above. Each one carries that state's full body-part schedule, the statute behind every figure, and a calculator that prints the arithmetic line by line so you can check it. If your claim involves an injury rather than an impairment rating, the general comp calculator is the faster start.
No, and any single chart that claims to is hiding something. States use five structurally different systems: most multiply scheduled weeks by a weekly rate, Washington pays off a fixed dollar schedule where your wages are irrelevant, Indiana pays dollars per degree of impairment, Arizona works in months rather than weeks, and Michigan has no permanent-partial rating schedule at all for general disabilities. The chart on this page keeps those systems visible instead of averaging them into a number that fits nobody.
On the weekly permanent-disability rate, Iowa at $2,237 is the highest of the twenty states here and California at $290 the lowest, which is a 7.7-fold spread. But the weekly rate alone will mislead you, because the number of weeks paid varies just as much. Run the same 15% whole-body impairment through each state's own formula and the awards range from about $167,800 in Iowa to about $20,300 in Oklahoma, an 8.3-fold spread. The arithmetic for every state is printed on this page.
Because many states cap them separately, and almost nobody mentions it. California pays permanent disability at $290 a week against a $1,764.11 temporary maximum, so the permanent rate is 16% of the temporary one. Colorado, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Ohio all sit near a third. If you have read a state's headline comp maximum and assumed it applies to your impairment award, it probably doesn't. Check which rate your state applies to permanent partial disability, because that is the one that prices the settlement.
Find your state's row, then follow the link to that state's page, which carries the full schedule and a calculator that prints the arithmetic. For a weeks-based state it comes to your impairment rating multiplied by the scheduled weeks for that body part, multiplied by the weekly rate, capped at the state maximum. A 15% rating against a 500-week whole-body schedule is 75 weeks of benefits.
Every figure here was checked against the state agency's own rate bulletin on September 18, 2026. That matters more than it sounds. Most states reset their maximums on 1 July, Texas on 1 October and Oklahoma on 1 January, so a chart built in the spring is stale by the autumn. Where a state has not published its current figure, we say so rather than carrying the old one forward as if it were current. Illinois is the live example on this page.
Not on its own. North Carolina's $1,446 weekly rate beats Missouri's $678.18 by more than double, but North Carolina's back schedule runs 300 weeks against Missouri's 400 for the body as a whole, which narrows the gap. Three things set the award: the rate, the week count for your body part, and whether your injury is classified as scheduled or whole-person. In Colorado that classification fight is worth several times the award itself.