Each state has its own formula for determining your weekly benefit amount: how much money you will receive each week as your unemployment benefit. Typically, your weekly benefit amount is some percentage of your earnings during the entire base period or the quarter of the base period in which you were paid the most.
In Alaska, your weekly benefit amount depends, in part, on whether you earned 90% or more of your compensation during the entire base period in a single quarter:
- If so, your base period wages are the total amount you earned in the other three quarters of the base period (not including the quarter when you earned the most), multiplied by ten.
- If not, your base period wages are simply the total amount you earned in all four quarters of the base period.
Once you have calculated your base period wages, look up your weekly benefit amount in the chart at Calculating Your Weekly Benefit Amount and Duration.