Trends In Employment Practices Liability, 2015-2021

 

Year Median (midpoint) award Probability range (1)
2015 $83,000 $17,913 - $356,148
2016 124,224 25,000 - 450,000
2017 125,500 25,000 - 532,450
2018 181,369 32,334 - 542,444
2019 200,000 50,000 - 629,000
2020 171,980 78,099 - 297,419
2021 258,500 50,440 - 890,638
Overall $145,200 $27,426 - $500,000
(1) The middle 50 percent of all awards arranged in ascending order in a sampling, 25 percent above and below the median award. The median represents the midpoint jury award. Half of the awards are above the median and half are below. This helps establish where awards tend to cluster. Source: Reprinted with permission of Thomson Reuters, Employment Practice Liability: Jury Award Trends and Statistics, 2022 edition.