Housekeeping Damages Calculator ™
New Features
May 15, 2025
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2025.
May 15, 2025
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2021 to 2023.
July 11, 2024
Brown Economic has updated the video for the Housekeeping Damages CalculatorTM (HDC) to show how the input screens work to calculate housekeeping capacity losses. To view the HDC video, click on "View Demonstration".
April 30, 2024
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2024.
March 25, 2024
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2020 to 2022.
November 16, 2023
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Expectancy Data, Healthy Life Expectancy: 2018 Tables. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 2020.
November 16, 2023
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2019 to 2021.
February 1, 2022
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2022.
February 1, 2022
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2018 to 2020.
April 24, 2021
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2021.
January 12, 2021
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2017 to 2019.
February 24, 2020
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2020.
February 24, 2020
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2016 to 2018.
November 5, 2019
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Expectancy Data, Healthy Life Expectancy: 2017 Tables. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 2019.
September 25, 2019
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2019.
September 16, 2019
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2015 to 2017.
August 7, 2018
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2017.
July 31, 2018
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2014 to 2016.
August 3, 2017
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Expectancy Data, Healthy Life Expectancy: 2012 Tables. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 2016.
August 3, 2017
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2011 to 2013.
March 20, 2017
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2017.
May 30, 2016
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2016.
May 30, 2016
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2010 to 2012.
March 5, 2015
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2015.
October 21, 2014
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2014.
January 28, 2014
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Expectancy Data, Healthy Life Expectancy: 2009 Tables. Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 2014, Tables 2 & 3.
Dec 6, 2013
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2009 to 2011.
September 13, 2013
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2013.
April 3, 2013
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2007 to 2009.
November 14, 2012
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2012.
September 21, 2011
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2011.
September 21, 2011
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Healthy Life Expectancy: 2006 Tables (Shawnee Mission, Kansas: Expectancy Data, 2010), Tables 2 and 3.
October 21, 2010
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2010.
July 7, 2009
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2009.
April 4, 2008
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2008.
March 18, 2008
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Healthy Life Expectancy: 2004 Tables (Shawnee Mission: Kansas), 2008, Tables 2 and 3. No comparable Canadian data exists; Statistics Canada published "Disability-free life expectancy by health region" in Health Reports, Vol. 13, No. 4, July 2002 catalogue 82-003 but probabilities that are age and gender-specific are not published in this catalogue. This contingency lowers the potential housekeeping award as it takes into account an individual's failing health in the absence of the incident; or that the person may do the chore more slowly, have more time to do it, or it is a hobby.
January 1, 2008
The fees have been updated to reflect 5% GST.
November 27, 2007
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research and case law in 2007.
November 20, 2006
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada, Provinces and Territories 2000 to 2002.
July 1, 2006
The fees have been updated to reflect 6% GST.
June 13, 2006
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research and case law in 2006.
November 30, 2005
A summary of hourly replacement rates used in this calculator is accessible from the home page of the Housekeeping Damages Calculator. It shows the rates for all provinces (except Quebec), exclusive of GST. A "cleaning survey" done in Alberta in the fall of 2005 is summarized in conjunction with the table.
November 30, 2005
Question 9 of the input form was modified to ask the user for the actual year in which the condition improves rather than the number of years. Since the application of the improvement occurs on January 1st of any given year, this will eliminate any ambiguity as to when the actual improvement occurs. The "Sensitivity" button has been renamed to "Revise Inputs & Recalculate".
September 28, 2005
The "health contingency" has been updated based on tables published by Expectancy Data in the US, from the publication Healthy Life Expectancy: 2002 Tables (Shawnee Mission: Kansas), 2004, Table 3.
September 16, 2005
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research and case law in 2005.
August 26, 2004
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2004.
November 12, 2003
We have added PDF copies of our Diary of Household Activities to assist claimants in tracking their housekeeping capacity following an incident.
October 2, 2003
The housekeeping loss calculation now provides details on the year-by-year calculation, showing annual replacement values, contingency adjustments (empty-nest, health, mortality) and present value factors. The "present value (cumulative)" column allows the user to truncate the future loss at any age.
July 30, 2003
The "health contingency" data has been updated from 1997 to 2000 (the most recent available). This contingency is included to reflect the possibility that the plaintiff or decedent may not have been able to perform various chores in any event, or would have ceased doing heavy cleaning as s/he aged. This contingency decreases potential compensation by -20% to -35% as the plaintiff / decedent ages.
May 13, 2003
The housekeeping rates for each province have been updated to reflect statistical research in 2003 as well as recent replacement rates reported in Quicklaw cases for each province.
New life expectancy tables have been incorporated from Statistics Canada's Life Tables, Canada and Provinces, 1995-97.
Methodological working papers have been added explaining the calculation of housekeeping damages in civil litigation. These include 2 published papers by C. Brown in the Advocates' Quarterly as well as a paper presentation on behalf of the Canadian Institute conference in December 2002.
The inflation rate forecast has been updated from 1.68% to 2.00% per year for the present value calculations.
October 10, 2002
The Housekeeping Damages Calculator now includes a more powerful sensitivity analysis. The user can modify additional parameters (such as how much the plaintiff's capacity could change, and when that change would occur).
May 30, 2002
The housekeeping rates for each province were updated to reflect statistical research in 2002 as well as replacement rates reported in Quicklaw cases for each province.
April 25, 2002
The sensitivity analysis now allows the user to combine the impact of modifying the hours lost and the hourly replacement rate rather than ascertaining the impact of varying these factors separately.
April 15, 2002
The Housekeeping Damages Calculator now includes the past loss period, defined from the date of incident to the current date. The past loss does not include pre-judgment interest. The past loss value is added to the future loss to obtain the total loss.
April 15, 2002
The Housekeeping Damages Calculator now provides a sensitivity analysis, at no extra charge, which allows the user to vary either the hours lost or the hourly replacement rate after the initial estimate is calculated. The sensitivity analysis also shows the percentage impact compared to the previous estimate.
To access the sensitivity analysis, a user must pay for an on-line housekeeping loss estimate in order to find out how a change in the hours or rates effects the analysis.