Missouri Unemployment Benefits Calculator
Missouri claimant entry
Missouri agency-award worksheet
For Missouri, enter the weekly award, maximum balance, and payable weeks issued by Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; this route asserts no state-law formula.
Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations controls Missouri eligibility and the monetary record; this worksheet only mirrors Missouri values for review and never awards benefits.
Missouri claimant source: https://labor.mo.gov/unemployed-workers — checked 2026-09-14 by this implementation.
Missouri: filing and evidence
Missouri is presented here in award-entry mode. Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reference material lists a Missouri ceiling of $320 weekly and 20 reference weeks, a pairing worth $6,400; neither figure proves monetary eligibility, payable weeks, or approval.
Missouri filing desk
Missouri unemployment benefits belongs with Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; this is the claimant-facing starting point.
https://labor.mo.gov/unemployed-workersMissouri wage record boundary
Missouri uses the wage record tied to the claim’s base period; this worksheet does not turn the published maximum into a predicted award.
Missouri claimant next action
File through Missouri’s unemployment system and follow the determination notice for wage protests. For Missouri, keep employer names, pay-stub dates, gross wages, separation details, and work-search records together; Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations needs the Missouri record when checking base-period quarters and the monetary determination.
Missouri agency source link (https://labor.mo.gov/unemployed-workers) checked 2026-09-14; the federal comparison table is listed on the shared sources page.
Missouri stops at 20 weeks, and the money usually stops sooner
Missouri is one of a small group of states that never reaches the 26-week figure most people assume is standard. Its maximum benefit amount is the lesser of a third of base-period wages or 20 times the weekly benefit amount, with a duration range of 8 to 20 weeks.
- 4% of the average of your two highest quarters. Averaging two quarters rather than reading the single best one means a year with one strong quarter produces a lower Missouri figure than it would in a high-quarter state.
- The weekly range is $35 to $320. Both ends sit near the bottom of the national table, and the $35 minimum is among the lowest anywhere.
- The one-third cap often binds first. With a 20-week ceiling already low, the base-period-wages limb frequently exhausts a claim before the weeks do.
- Qualifying offers an alternative route: 1.5 times high-quarter wages with $1,500 in one quarter, or wages in two quarters equal to 1.5 times the maximum taxable wage base.
- Part-time work: the greater of 20% of the weekly amount or $20 is ignored.
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 Missouri
States whose maximum weekly benefit is closest to Missouri: