NVUnemployment insurance worksheet
Nevada Unemployment Calculator: Up to $657/Week, 26 Weeks
In Nevada, unemployment pays up to $657 a week for up to 26 weeks; your weekly amount is your highest quarter divided by 25.
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How Nevada works out your amount
Nevada: the July 2026 cap is $657; earlier claims in the supported window use $631. The ordinary monetary routes use either the wage ratio or three paid quarters. If both routes fail, the statutory lower-dollar exception needs DETR review and the estimate stays unknown.
Weekly earnings reduction is not modeled here unless your state source gives a rule. Optional withholding is separate from the gross estimate.
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation decides eligibility, base-period wages, payable weeks, reductions, withholding and the final award. Use the official record below to verify this scenario.
Nevada: NRS 612.340, 612.350, 612.355 and 612.375: high-quarter wages divided by 25, two ordinary wage-distribution routes and a balance of the smaller of 26 weekly amounts or one-third of wages. The cap is $631 before July 2026 and $657 from July 2026. When the ordinary routes fail, the statutory $1-lower qualification exception is left to the agency. https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-612.html (verified 2026-10-01)
The July 2026 weekly ceiling is $657
Nevada calculates ordinary weekly benefits from the highest covered base-period quarter divided by 25, with whole-dollar payment rounding and a $16 minimum. The U.S. Department of Labor's July 2026 comparison lists a $657 maximum. Nevada's June 2025 agency memorandum set the previous cap at $631, effective July 1, 2025.
The claim's benefit-year start determines which annual cap applies. A blank date uses your current local date. Supported dates select either the earlier $631 cap or the July 2026 $657 cap. After the verified annual window, use the official-award worksheet; an automatic wage estimate cannot establish an unverified successor.
A $15,000 high quarter gives $600 before any withholding, provided the monetary tests below pass. To reach $657 under the current formula, the high quarter must reach $16,425. At $16,424.99, the rounded weekly amount is $656. These are your covered quarter wages; the statewide wage calculation used to set the cap is a different calculation.
Two ordinary ways to meet the wage-distribution requirement
Your highest covered quarter must contain at least $400. You must also satisfy one of two ordinary routes: total base-period wages reach 1.5 times the highest quarter, or you have covered wages in at least three of the four quarters. The second route can matter when most earnings are concentrated in one quarter.
- $10,000 / $5,000 / $0 / $0 passes the ratio test at exactly 1.5 times the high quarter. Its weekly estimate is $400.
- $10,000 / $100 / $100 / $0 does not reach that ratio, but it has wages in three quarters. Its ordinary weekly estimate is also $400.
Use the four quarters that DETR accepts for the claim. The regular base period generally uses the four completed quarters that precede the most recent one. An alternate period can use the four latest completed quarters if the regular period does not qualify. Report confirmed zeroes as zero; a missing quarter must stay blank.
A failed ordinary test needs review of the $1-lower exception
NRS 612.375 contains an additional provision for a claimant who can qualify at a weekly amount $1 below the high-quarter calculation. This worksheet does not decide whether that exception applies. If the $400 high-quarter minimum is met but both ordinary wage-distribution routes fail, it leaves the monetary result unknown instead of issuing a zero-benefit conclusion.
For example, $10,000 and $4,999.99 in two quarters falls just short of the ordinary ratio. That is a reason to have DETR review the wage record and the statutory exception. If DETR gives you an award under that provision, enter the determination in the agency-award worksheet. Do not assume that subtracting $1 from any rejected estimate automatically qualifies a claim.
The balance can be smaller than 26 weekly payments
NRS 612.355 limits regular benefits to the smaller of 26 weekly amounts and one-third of total covered base-period wages, rounded down to a whole dollar. The maximum-weeks output shows the statutory 26-week ceiling. The balance may support fewer full payments and a smaller last payment.
In the $10,000 / $5,000 example, one-third of $15,000 is $5,000. That is below 26 × $400, so the balance is $5,000: twelve full $400 payments and a remaining $200. Modeling ten fully payable weeks gives $4,000; modeling thirteen reaches the $5,000 balance.
The three-quarter example with $10,200 total wages has a $3,400 balance. By contrast, four $16,425 quarters reach both the $657 weekly ceiling and the $17,082 maximum regular balance. These examples show why the same weekly amount does not establish the same total benefits.
What this monetary scenario leaves to DETR
This calculation covers full unemployment under the ordinary wage routes. It excludes earnings deductions for partial work, pensions, separation eligibility, availability and work-search decisions, requalification after a prior benefit year, extended benefits and special elected base periods. Passing a wage test does not establish entitlement for a particular week.
Optional withholding applies your entered percentage to the weekly amount; it does not predict tax liability. Compare the result with the agency's monetary determination and report missing employers or wages through the DETR claimant portal guidance.
Nevada source record
- NRS 612.025, 612.340, 612.350, 612.355 and 612.375: base periods, formula, rounding, balance and wage tests
- DETR June 1, 2025 memorandum: $631 cap effective July 1, 2025
- U.S. DOL July 2026 comparison: $657 cap and $400 high-quarter minimum
- DETR unemployment benefit guidance
Verified October 1, 2026. See methodology and calculation sources.
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 Nevada wage-estimate calendar supports 2025-07-01 to 2026-06-30; 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.
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