Tennessee Unemployment Benefits Calculator

Tennessee pays your Weekly Benefit Amount (WBA) from a real statutory wage-bracket TABLE (Tenn. Code Ann. §50-7-301(b)), keyed to the AVERAGE wages paid in your 2 highest-earning base-period quarters (add those two quarter totals, then divide by 2). This calculator reproduces that table EXACTLY, not as an estimate: the table's 245 rows (spanning 7 successive amendments from 1992 through the current Aug. 5, 2001 revision) each raise the WBA by $1 per $26.00 step, which collapses to two linear formulas -- one for average quarterly wages up to $4,420.00 (anchored at the table's own $780.01 -> $55 minimum), and a second, separate one above that point (the two pieces are not continuous with each other; the 1993 amendment introduced a one-time jump from $194 to $220 at that exact boundary) -- capped at the table's current $325 maximum ("$7,150.01 and over"). Both formulas, and the boundary between them, match every row of the statutory table (checked row by row, zero mismatches). WBA is floored to the next lower whole dollar (§50-7-301(c)(3)). IMPORTANT DURATION DISCLOSURE: effective Dec. 1, 2023, Tennessee replaced its old wage-based total-benefit cap with a pure sliding scale tied to the state's OWN current average unemployment rate (12-20 weeks, §50-7-301(d)(2)) — this can no longer be derived from your wages at all, so this calculator asks for Tennessee's currently-published maximum-weeks-payable figure directly (defaulting to 12, the current floor); verify the live number with the TN Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development. Tennessee pays no dependent allowance.