When you suffer a workplace injury or illness, it’s important to know what benefits are available to you. Unfortunately, the frustrating answer is—it depends! When you talk with a member of our team about your specific case, we’ll help you understand what your payments will be, based on the most recent compensation rates from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Your payment rates also affect the settlement value of your claim should you go that route at some point.
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Every year, the BWC updates benefit amounts for occupational illness, workplace injury, and wrongful death and lists them in a handy PDF chart.
However, the chart can be confusing when you don’t know what type of benefit you’ll get and don’t understand what all the columns mean. Fortunately, we’re ready to help.
The dollar amounts in the chart refer to the minimum and maximum amounts of weekly payments you will receive based on your income. Here's a breakdown for 2025.
Permanent Total Disability (PT)
If you’re permanently disabled and will never return to work, your payments max out at $1,231 per week without Social Security Disability (SSD) and $820.67 with SSD. However, the minimum weekly payment is $615.50 unless your actual weekly wage is lower than this, in which case you’re paid at your full average weekly wage.
Permanent Partial Disability (%PP)
If your work injury left you permanently but not totally disabled, you can be awarded PP benefits up to a maximum of $410.33 per week. This benefit is intended to make up for your loss of earning capacity. It’s akin to damages or “pain and suffering” in a personal injury case—but typically not as much money.
Temporary Total Disability (TT)
If you can’t work your job while recovering from your injury, the maximum weekly wage you can receive is $1,231 if you’re not collecting Social Security retirement benefits (SSR) and $820.67 if you’re collecting SSR. The minimum you’ll receive is $410.33 unless you made less than this amount, in which case you would receive two-thirds of what you made.
The exact amount will be based on your wages at the time of your injury. For the first 12 weeks, you’ll receive 72% of your full weekly wage. After that, you will receive 66 2/3% of your average weekly wage. Benefits will continue until you return to work or have reached maximum medical improvement.
Living Maintenance (LM)
If you’ve participated in an approved rehabilitation plan, the maximum payments are the same as they are for TT benefits, but the minimum increases to $615.50. Like TT, LM is decreased if you’re receiving SSR but not if you receive Social Security disability.
Wage Loss (WL)
If you can return to work after your injury, but in a different capacity and at a lower wage, you can collect wage loss benefits. This compensation is payable if you find lower-paying work or even if you can’t find work but are actively looking for it. Wage loss is paid at two-thirds of the difference between your previous wage and your current earnings, with a maximum in 2025 of $1,231 per week.
Scheduled Loss (SL)
Part B of the BWC’s Compensation Rate chart lists the number of weeks you can collect benefits and the maximum lifetime benefits for loss of, or loss of use of, a body part or hearing loss. The maximum weekly rate of SL payments is also $1,231 in 2025.
Survivor Benefits (SB)
If you’re the dependent of someone who was killed on the job, you could be awarded survivor benefits ranging from $615.50 to $1,231 per week, depending on the worker’s wages at the time of the fatal accident.
What Else to Keep in Mind Regarding 2025 Workers’ Comp Benefits
Because these weekly benefits are based on your average weekly wage at the time of your workplace accident or occupational illness, it’s important that the amount be accurately determined to include all sources of income and exclude all periods of unemployment beyond your control. Special consideration may also be made for those entering the workforce and for other reasons.
Also, note that these amounts are weekly rates but that your workers’ comp check or direct deposit will arrive every two weeks.
