Expenditures per Capita on Workers’ Compensation

Description: 

Total workers’ compensation benefits in constant dollars, divided by the country’s total population.

Methodological Notes: 

Workers’ compensation provides medical care, rehabilitation, and cash benefits for workers who are injured on the job or who contract work-related illnesses. It also pays benefits to families of workers who die of work-related causes. This measure includes benefits paid from the federal government, state governments, private insurance carriers, and self-insuring employers.

Outlays are adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Economic Analysis price index for Gross Domestic Product. See National Income and Product Accounts.