2024 California Workers’ Comp Settlement Chart – Forbes Advisor

If you are permanently disabled, you can receive benefits on an ongoing basis through workers’ compensation.

If you are 100% permanently disabled, you can continue to receive the same benefits you were getting under temporary disability benefits. Usually, this is ⅔ of your average weekly wage earned before your injury–up to maximum and minimum limits.

However, if you are only partly disabled, the amount and duration of your payments will vary based on your disability rating. The chart below shows the number of payment weeks you can receive your permanent disability benefits. If you were injured after 1/1/2005 and your rating was nine, for example, you’d receive benefits for nine times three weeks, or 27 weeks.

These values are laid out in the California Labor Code.

There are also different maximum and minimum payments applied to permanent disability benefits. The chart below shows these maximum and minimums.

Typically, maximum and minimum benefits depend less on the percentage of disability and more on the year the injury occurred.

You may also be entitled to Supplemental Job Displacement Benefits if you have a permanent partial disability and you need educational retraining to find new work since you can no longer do your old job. The chart above shows what this benefit amount will equal.