DWC Announces Temporary Total Disability Rates for 2024

The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces that the 2024 minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates will not change. The minimum TTD rate will remain $242.86 and the maximum TTD rate will remain $1,619.15 per week.

Labor Code Section 4453(a) (10) requires the maximum and minimum weekly earnings upon which TTD is based be increased by an amount equal to percentage increase in the State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) as compared to the prior year. The SAWW is defined as the average weekly wage paid to employees covered by unemployment insurance as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor for California for the 12 months ending March 31 in the year preceding the injury. In the 12 months ending March 31, 2023, the SAWW declined from $1,651 to $1,642.

Under Labor Code Section 4659(c), workers with a date of injury on or after January 1, 2003 who receiving life pension (LP) or permanent total disability (PTD) benefits are also entitled to have their weekly LP or PTD rate adjusted based on the SAWW.

SAWW figures may be verified using the U.S. Department of Labor’s data.

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