New Hampshire Unemployment Calculator: Up to $427/Week

Find the earnings band after checking both quarters

RSA 282-A:25 requires at least $1,400 in each of two calendar quarters. The annual covered-earnings total then selects a row in the statutory benefit table. The weekly range is $32–$427, with a regular maximum balance equal to 26 weekly amounts. These are monetary conditions; NH Employment Security decides whether a claim is payable.

Use the four quarters in the agency's selected base period, not the last four paychecks. A missing quarter keeps the estimate blank. A supplied date before July 1, 2007 remains outside this wage table's supported period. The statutory table continues subject to amendment; October 1, 2026 records the source review, not an expiration. A blank claim date uses your current local date.

Why the same annual earnings can yield different results

Example A has $2,000, $2,000, $3,000 and $3,000 in its four quarters: $10,000 total, qualifying quarters, $110 weekly and a $2,860 regular balance. Example B has $10,000 in one quarter and zero in the other three. Its annual total is identical, but it does not meet the ordinary two-quarter requirement.

The form therefore collects four amounts. A single highest-quarter entry would not distinguish these cases. Zero is a known value; leaving an amount blank means it has not been established.

Check a boundary without interpolating

With qualifying quarters, $9,999.99 falls below the $10,000 row and selects $105 weekly; $10,000 selects $110. Ten full eligible weeks at $110 model $1,100. Earnings above $41,500 stay at the $427 ceiling. The table uses discrete bands, so dividing earnings by a generic number can produce an amount that NHES does not list.

Statutory weekly benefit lookup

Use the highest earnings threshold your covered annual total reaches. The regular balance in each row is 26 times the listed weekly amount.

A balance is not a payment schedule

Model only the full eligible weeks you want to budget. Partial earnings, pensions, offsets, waiting-period rules, work search and other weekly conditions require NHES review and are outside this calculation. An optional withholding percentage changes the separate take-home illustration; it does not change the statutory gross award or determine taxes owed.

If the monetary determination uses different earnings, reconcile the employer and quarter records before assuming the calculator should override it. Special programs, combined-wage claims and alternative-period decisions need the agency's record.

Official New Hampshire reference

RSA 282-A:25: weekly and maximum benefits, checked October 1, 2026. The published table supplies the boundary data above; worked scenarios are arithmetic examples. Visit New Hampshire Employment Security for a claim decision. See methodology and Maine's different two-high-quarter method.

Supported claim periods and annual handoff

The New Hampshire wage-estimate calendar supports 2007-07-01 to the current statutory schedule, subject to amendment. 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.