Kansas Unemployment Calculator: Up to $663/Week

Current Kansas benefits range from $165 to $663

The Kansas Department of Labor publishes a $165 minimum and $663 maximum for claims starting July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. These replace the previous $159–$637 schedule.

Take 4.25% of the highest covered wage quarter. Apply the current minimum and maximum, then round down to a whole dollar. Kansas law explicitly raises a smaller computed rate to the minimum; the separate wage qualification test still has to pass.

Quarters of $5,000, $7,500, $10,000 and $7,500 total $30,000. The $10,000 high quarter gives $425 weekly. Ten modeled full weeks draw $4,250. Optional 10% withholding shows $382.50 per weekly payment, separate from the gross account.

A high quarter of $15,600 reaches the $663 cap. At $15,599.99, the percentage calculation rounds down to $662. Higher earnings do not increase the weekly payment above the maximum.

Two quarters and 30 weekly amounts must be covered

Section 44-705 requires wages in more than one base-period quarter and total covered wages of at least 30 times the weekly benefit amount. The test uses the rate after the minimum, maximum and rounding rules have been applied.

For the $425 example, the requirement is $12,750. The $30,000 total passes. A record of $10,000, $2,750, zero and zero meets the threshold exactly; reducing the second quarter by one cent fails it.

The minimum $165 rate requires at least $4,950 total wages. Four $1,237.50 quarters meet that total, even though 4.25% of the high quarter is below $165. Reducing one quarter by one cent fails the total-wage condition. A single large quarter fails the two-quarter condition.

The maximum $663 rate requires $19,890 total wages. A $15,600 high quarter and $4,290 in a second quarter meet that requirement. This test can reject a wage record even when the highest quarter reaches the maximum-rate boundary.

A 16-week determination is not a universal fixed duration

Kansas law selects the ordinary duration from the three-month seasonally adjusted average unemployment rate at the beginning of the benefit year. Below 5% gives 16 weeks; at least 5% but below 6% gives 20; at least 6% gives 26.

The earlier reviewed agency claimant handbook uses 16 weeks, and the monthly rates published through August 2026 remain below the 5% transition. The October 17 source check did not establish a new duration determination for claims from October 16. Enter the weeks KDOL authorizes for those claims; the prior 16-week default applies only to the earlier reviewed claim window. It does not use the statute's older general 26-week provision without applying the later rate-based rule.

The maximum benefit account is the smaller of the applicable weekly-rate multiple and one-third of total covered wages. Section 44-704 requires the resulting account to round down to a whole dollar.

If KDOL authorizes 16 weeks, the $425 example has a $6,800 account: 16 times $425 is less than one-third of $30,000. A 20-week determination would instead give an $8,500 account on the same wages, still below the $10,000 wage ceiling. The minimum-total example has a $1,650 account despite its 16-week ceiling. At $165 weekly, ten full payments exhaust that smaller wage-based balance. Requesting another full week cannot create additional funds.

Select the covered base-period record

Kansas ordinarily uses the four completed calendar quarters that precede the most recent one. The lag quarter is excluded from that regular record. Enter accepted gross covered wages for each selected quarter, using zero only when no wages are confirmed. Blank wages stay unknown.

This full-week estimate does not decide separation eligibility, the waiting week, work search, availability, repeat-claim requalification or deductions for earnings and other payments. A 52-week benefit year is the claim's time window, not 52 payments. Review the KDOL monetary determination for the approved weekly rate, account and duration.

Primary Kansas sources

• BLS seasonally adjusted Kansas rates through FRED: April–August 2026 remain below 5%, evidence behind the earlier 16-week model, not a new claim determination.
• KDOL current weekly limits: July 2026 $165–$663 schedule.
• Current KDOL claimant handbook: computation, base period and the earlier 16-week example.
• K.S.A. 44-704: minimum clamp, rounding, account and rate-based duration.
• K.S.A. 44-705: two-quarter and 30-times wage conditions.

Monetary rules reviewed October 1, 2026; section 44-704 and the available rate series reread October 17, 2026. Confirm the authorized duration and special claims with KDOL.

Supported claim periods and annual handoff

Duration changes with a published unemployment-rate determination. October 16, 2026 is a source-review checkpoint, not an invented legal expiration. For claims dated on or after that checkpoint, enter the agency-authorized weeks. The weekly formula can remain known while a missing duration leaves the account and modeled total unresolved.

The Kansas wage-estimate calendar supports 2026-07-01 to 2027-06-30. 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.