AKUnemployment insurance worksheet
Alaska Unemployment Calculator: Max $370/Week + Dependents
In Alaska, unemployment pays up to $370 a week before dependent allowances for up to 26 weeks; your weekly amount is set by a table of your total base-period wages.
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How Alaska works out your amount
Alaska 2026: the total-wage table uses a special adjustment when one quarter holds 90% or more of wages. The agency-confirmed earnings ratio gives 16–26 weeks. Base amounts stay separate from the approved $24 allowance for each of up to three dependents.
Weekly earnings reduction is not modeled here unless your state source gives a rule. Optional withholding is separate from the gross estimate.
The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development decides eligibility, base-period wages, payable weeks, reductions, withholding and the final award. Use the official record below to verify this scenario.
Alaska: AS 23.20.350 and the June 2026 agency calculator: qualification needs $2,500 in wages across two quarters and $250 outside the high quarter. When 90% or more of wages fall in one quarter, the table uses 10 times outside-quarter wages. The weekly table runs $56–$370, with 16–26 weeks set by continuous earnings-ratio bands confirmed against the agency calculator. Approved dependents add $24 each, up to three. Conditional January 2027 changes in HB 302 sections 10–12 are excluded. Source review dated October 1, 2026. https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#23.20.350 (verified 2026-10-01)
Alaska uses a total-wage table, with a $370 base maximum
The current Alaska base weekly benefit ranges from $56 to $370. Section 23.20.350 uses a table of base-period wages. For an ordinary wage record, the first payable row is $2,500 to less than $2,750, paying $56. Each additional $250 band increases the benefit by $2 until the $370 ceiling.
For example, $20,000 in covered base-period wages falls in the $20,000–$20,249.99 band and gives a $196 base weekly benefit. At $19,999.99, the preceding row gives $194. The maximum row begins at $41,750, rather than at a high-quarter wage divided by a generic divisor.
Use the four covered wage quarters from your Alaska monetary determination. The regular base period is the four completed quarters that precede the most recent one; an alternate period may use the latest four completed quarters when the regular period does not qualify. This worksheet evaluates the selected four-quarter record and does not automatically choose between those periods.
A quarter holding 90% of wages changes the table input
When the highest quarter contains at least 90% of total wages, Alaska multiplies wages outside that quarter by ten and uses that adjusted amount in the weekly table. The unadjusted annual total still determines the earnings ratio for duration.
With $9,000 in one quarter and $1,000 in another, the high quarter holds exactly 90% of the $10,000 total. Ten times the outside wages is also $10,000, producing $116 per week. Increasing the high quarter to $19,000 while leaving the outside quarter at $1,000 keeps the table input at $10,000 and the base rate at $116. A larger seasonal peak alone does not lift that rate.
The monetary test requires at least $2,500 in total covered wages across at least two quarters. The current agency calculator also checks at least $250 outside the highest quarter. With $2,250 and $250 quarters, the adjusted table wages are $2,500 and the base rate is $56. One cent less outside the high quarter fails; a single large wage quarter also fails.
Your earnings ratio determines 16–26 weeks
Divide the original total base-period wages by the highest quarter. The current agency calculator applies these boundaries continuously, without rounding the ratio to two decimals:
| Total wages / high quarter | Maximum weeks |
|---|---|
| Less than 1.50 | 16 |
| 1.50 to less than 2.00 | 18 |
| 2.00 to less than 2.50 | 20 |
| 2.50 to less than 3.00 | 22 |
| 3.00 to less than 3.50 | 24 |
| 3.50 or more | 26 |
Four $5,000 quarters total $20,000. Their ratio is 4.00, so the $196 base rate can fund 26 weeks, a $5,096 base balance. Ten modeled full weeks use $1,960; optional 10% withholding shows $176.40 from the base weekly amount.
Two $10,000 quarters have the same annual total and $196 weekly rate, but a 2.00 ratio gives 20 weeks and a $3,920 base balance. A total just below twice the high quarter belongs in the 18-week band, even if a rounded display would show 2.00.
Approved dependents add $24 each, separately
Alaska currently allows $24 per approved dependent for up to three dependents, a maximum $72 weekly supplement. The $370 ceiling is the base benefit; $442 is the combined maximum with three approved dependents. Enter zero when none are approved. A blank count leaves allowance-inclusive outputs unresolved while the wage-based estimate remains available.
For the four-$5,000-quarter example, three approved dependents add $72 to the $196 base rate, giving $268 per full week. If the allowance is approved from the start for all 26 weeks, the potential combined balance is $6,968. The displayed base balance and modeled base draw exclude that allowance. A dependent added later does not retroactively receive the entire claim's supplement.
Eligible dependents are the statutory unmarried child, stepchild, adopted child or legal ward, with custody or support requirements. Approval and timing belong to the department. Optional withholding here applies to the base output; it is not a calculation of income tax or of deductions from the allowance-inclusive payment.
The 2026 law changes benefits conditionally in 2027
Enrolled HB 302, Chapter 52 SLA 2026, contains a revised maximum of $470 and a larger dependent allowance. Sections 17–18 make the unemployment changes conditional on federal approval or a determination that approval is unnecessary. Their earliest effective date is January 1, 2027; a later approval would delay it further.
It does not apply the future schedule to a 2026 claim or assume the conditional approval occurred.
Primary sources and claim limits
- AS 23.20.350: monetary qualification, concentration adjustment, benefit table, duration and dependent allowance.
- Alaska's current benefit calculator: continuous duration boundaries and the $250 outside-quarter check.
- Agency wage worksheet and table and current general information: the $56–$370 schedule and base periods.
- Enrolled HB 302: conditional future benefit changes and effective dates.
Reviewed October 1, 2026. Separation, availability, the waiting week, weekly earnings deductions, pensions, repeat-claim requalification and extensions are outside this full-unemployment estimate. File or review the actual monetary determination through myAlaska; a passed wage test does not establish every eligibility condition.
Worked in a nearby state too?
Each state pays from the wages reported to it, so a claim follows where the covered work was done. If some of your base-period wages were earned in one of these states, open its worksheet, or compare every state on the unemployment benefits calculator.
Supported claim periods and annual handoff
The Alaska wage-estimate calendar supports 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31. Source dates describe when evidence was checked; they do not create a legal expiration. A blank claim date uses the current local date. After a finite schedule ends, the form shows an explicit official-award worksheet. Enter the weekly award, maximum account and authorized weeks from the determination. An unverified successor rate is never copied from the previous annual table.
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