How Are Benefits Calculated?

 

Learn about the formula Maryland will use to calculate your unemployment benefits.

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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. 

Maryland pays about half of your gross weekly wages as a weekly unemployment benefit. To find out how much you will receive per week, use your earnings during the highest paid quarter of the base period to look up your weekly benefit amount in the chart at Schedule of Unemployment Benefits


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Jurisdictional relevance: ST

There are versions of this article for each State.