Idaho Unemployment Benefits Calculator

Idaho pays one twenty-sixth of the wages in your best base-period quarter each week, dropped to a whole dollar, up to a maximum of 55 percent of the state's average weekly wage for the year before (Idaho Code 72-1367(2)). That maximum takes effect for new claims filed from the first full week of each January, so the calculator asks for it and starts from the $624 the U.S. Department of Labor lists in its July 2026 table. To qualify, one quarter must pay at least $1,872 (half of the state minimum wage times 520 hours, rounded down to a multiple of 26) and the whole base period at least 1.25 times that best quarter (72-1367(1)). The number of weeks is not a flat 26: Idaho reads it from a table by the ratio of base-period wages to the best quarter, from 1.25 up to 4.00, and by the state's forecast unemployment rate, from 10 to 26 weeks (72-1367(3)). The calculator asks which rate column applies and starts at the lowest-rate column, which pays the fewest weeks; your monetary determination shows the weeks that apply to you. Part-time earnings above half the weekly amount reduce that week's payment (72-1367(4)); that deduction and the separation and work-search tests are not applied here. Idaho pays no dependents' allowance.