About CompCharts

CompCharts is a reference site for US workers compensation. We publish the statutory schedule of injuries, the current weekly benefit rates, the filing deadlines, and the agency contact information for every state, sourced from public state and federal records. Nothing on this site is legal advice.

What this site is

Workers compensation is set by state law. The rules in California are not the rules in North Carolina, and the difference can mean tens of thousands of dollars on the same injury. Most existing coverage online sits inside individual law firm websites that publish a chart for the state they practice in. The data is usually right; the framing is built to win a client.

CompCharts is different in two ways. We publish data for all 50 states (and DC), not a single jurisdiction. And we do not take any payment from law firms, lead-gen platforms, or insurance carriers. The site runs on free public data from .gov sources, organized for injured workers and the people helping them.

What we publish

  • The current maximum and minimum weekly workers comp benefit in each state, with the effective date.
  • The statutory schedule of injuries for every state that uses one, with the weeks of compensation assigned to each scheduled body part.
  • A settlement calculator that returns the statutory permanent partial disability award using the actual state formula.
  • The filing deadlines you have to hit in each state: notice to employer, formal claim filing, and the medical reporting window.
  • The state agency that administers workers comp, with the official address, phone, and website link.
  • Sources behind every figure on the site, with the URL we fetched.

What this site is not

CompCharts is not a law firm. We do not represent workers, do not review specific claims, and cannot tell you whether your case is worth settling. We do not run a lawyer referral service or take any commission on lead generation. We do not give legal advice in any form. If you have a specific claim, talk to a licensed attorney in your state.

CompCharts is not a substitute for the state workers comp board. Every page links back to the official source. If a figure on this site looks wrong, the state's published source wins. We update from those sources on a weekly schedule and any drift over 25 percent triggers a manual review.

How the site is built

The data pipeline runs as a set of state-by-state scrapers against each state legislature and workers comp board, plus federal data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Department of Labor. Every scraper writes JSON, every JSON file is validated against a published schema, and the build fails loudly if a number drifts outside sane ranges or a source page goes silent. 51 state scrapers are live.

The site is open about what it does and does not do. The methodology page lists every source URL and the cadence we fetch it on.