Hawaii Unemployment Benefits Calculator
Hawaii claimant entry
Hawaii agency-award worksheet
For Hawaii, enter the weekly award, maximum balance, and payable weeks issued by Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; this route asserts no state-law formula.
Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations controls Hawaii eligibility and the monetary record; this worksheet only mirrors Hawaii values for review and never awards benefits.
Hawaii claimant source: https://labor.hawaii.gov/ui/ — checked 2026-09-14 by this implementation.
Hawaii: filing and evidence
Hawaii is presented here in award-entry mode. Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reference material lists a Hawaii ceiling of $868 weekly and 26 reference weeks, a pairing worth $22,568; neither figure proves monetary eligibility, payable weeks, or approval.
Hawaii filing desk
Hawaii unemployment benefits belongs with Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; this is the claimant-facing starting point.
https://labor.hawaii.gov/ui/Hawaii wage record boundary
Hawaii’s claim date and reported covered wages determine which completed quarters count; the reference maximum does not answer that question.
Hawaii claimant next action
Use Hawaii UI online to file and retain the wage schedule supplied with the determination. For Hawaii, keep employer names, pay-stub dates, gross wages, separation details, and work-search records together; Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations needs the Hawaii record when checking base-period quarters and the monetary determination.
Hawaii agency source link (https://labor.hawaii.gov/ui/) checked 2026-09-14; the federal comparison table is listed on the shared sources page.
Hawaii has the most generous divisor and the lowest minimum in the country
Hawaii divides high-quarter wages by 21 — the smallest divisor any state uses, and therefore the most generous — while its published minimum weekly benefit is $5, the lowest figure in the entire federal table.
- 1/21 of high-quarter wages. Compare the common 1/25 or 1/26: on the same wage record Hawaii pays roughly a fifth more than a 1/26 state, up to a $868 ceiling.
- The minimum is $5. Nothing else in the table comes close; the next lowest is $15. It means a very thin work record can still produce a determination, just a nominal one.
- Uniform 26 weeks. The maximum benefit amount is simply 26 times the weekly amount, with no wage-share limb to cut it short.
- Part-time work: a flat $150 is ignored, the largest fixed disregard in the country.
- Qualifying takes 26 times the weekly amount with wages in two quarters, and employers pay on $64,500 of wages — the second-highest taxable wage base anywhere, which is what funds the generosity above.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, effective January 2026. The report states it is not an official interpretation of state UI laws, so treat these provisions as a cross-check on the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations determination rather than a replacement for it.
Weekly maximums nearest Hawaii
States whose maximum weekly benefit is closest to Hawaii: