What should your weekly check be?
New York workers' comp pays a weekly indemnity benefit while you're out of work — but the math is governed by statute, capped by your date of accident, and easy for insurance carriers to get wrong. This calculator runs your numbers against the official statutory rate tables for every accident year going back to 1992.
Statutory Rate Tables
Built-in WCB max and min rate schedule for every year since 1992. Your date-of-accident locks the cap — even if your case takes years to resolve, the cap doesn't change.
TTD and TPD
Total disability (WCL §15(2)) and partial disability (WCL §15(5-a) and §15(6) actual-earnings method). Handles 100% temporary total all the way down to mild partial.
Period-by-period Gap Analysis
Build a timeline of your case (TTD here, then TPD 75% there). Log every check the carrier sent. The tool shows where in the timeline you were underpaid — the foundation of any rate dispute.
Stays on Your Device
Inputs and the resulting calculation never leave your browser. The contact form at the end transmits only the four fields you fill in there — name, email, phone, message — and nothing else.
Who should use this
Anyone whose New York workers' comp claim is producing a weekly indemnity check — particularly if you suspect the rate is wrong, the carrier dropped your classification, or checks have shrunk after an IME. Most useful when your AWW or disability classification has been disputed or recently changed.
A note on accuracy
The math reflects statute. The output is only as accurate as the inputs you give it. AWW disputes — concurrent earnings, overtime, tips, union supplements — are where the biggest dollars live in workers' comp, and they're not something a calculator can resolve. Treat the result as a baseline for the conversation, not a binding number.
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