Ohio Unemployment Benefits Calculator

Ohio pays a Weekly Benefit Amount (WBA) of 50% of your average weekly wage over the base period, rounded down to the next lower dollar (ORC §4141.30(B)(3)). When you use quarter-by-quarter mode, ORC §4141.01(O)(2) supplies that average: total remuneration in qualifying weeks divided by the actual number of qualifying weeks, which can run from the 20-week eligibility floor through roughly 52 weeks in a full base period. The WBA cannot exceed the maximum for your dependency class (ORC §4141.30(E)): Class A (no dependents) $624/week and Class C (three or more dependents) $842/week, the two ends of the Ohio maximum in the U.S. Department of Labor's January 2026 Significant Provisions table. Ohio's statute does not print the current dollar maximums: it raises each class's 1987 base amount every January by the percentage rise in the statewide average weekly wage, within ceilings of 50%, 60% and 66⅔% of that wage (ORC §4141.30(B)(3), (B)(5)), so one class's figure cannot be worked out from another's. The 2026 Class B (one or two dependents) maximum was not confirmed from an official source as of October 12, 2026, so the calculator asks you to enter the figure shown by ODJFS. Until you enter it, it uses $624, the lowest the Class B maximum can be under the statute (Class B's base amount and ceiling are both above Class A's and below Class C's), so a Class B estimate above $624 is a floor rather than an overstatement. The minimum WBA is $176/week (DOL January 2026 table). Dependents do not add a separate dollar amount on top of the 50%-of-wage figure; under ORC §4141.30(B)(3) the dependency class only raises which maximum applies, so the dependent allowance shown here is $0 by design. ORC §4141.30(D) separately caps total benefit duration at 26 weeks: qualifying weeks above 26 still belong in the average-wage divisor but do not extend the claim beyond 26 weeks.