North Dakota Unemployment Benefits Calculator
North Dakota claimant entry
North Dakota agency-award worksheet
For North Dakota, enter the weekly award, maximum balance, and payable weeks issued by North Dakota Job Service; this route asserts no state-law formula.
North Dakota Job Service controls North Dakota eligibility and the monetary record; this worksheet only mirrors North Dakota values for review and never awards benefits.
North Dakota claimant source: https://www.jobservice.nd.gov/unemployment-benefits — checked 2026-09-14 by this implementation.
North Dakota: filing and evidence
North Dakota is presented here in award-entry mode. North Dakota Job Service reference material lists a North Dakota ceiling of $815 weekly and 26 reference weeks, a pairing worth $21,190; neither figure proves monetary eligibility, payable weeks, or approval.
North Dakota filing desk
North Dakota unemployment benefits belongs with North Dakota Job Service; this is the claimant-facing starting point.
https://www.jobservice.nd.gov/unemployment-benefitsNorth Dakota wage record boundary
North Dakota’s monetary eligibility is based on the state wage record and claim-date quarters; the reference ceiling is only contextual.
North Dakota claimant next action
File through North Dakota Job Service and ask for a wage investigation if the base-period record is incomplete. For North Dakota, keep employer names, pay-stub dates, gross wages, separation details, and work-search records together; North Dakota Job Service needs the North Dakota record when checking base-period quarters and the monetary determination.
North Dakota agency source link (https://www.jobservice.nd.gov/unemployment-benefits) checked 2026-09-14; the federal comparison table is listed on the shared sources page.
North Dakota is the only state that counts three quarters in the formula
Nearly every state uses one quarter or two. North Dakota's weekly benefit amount is 1/65 of the wages in your two high quarters PLUS half the wages in your third-highest quarter — so a third good quarter genuinely raises the cheque.
- Two quarters at full weight, a third at half weight. The structure deliberately rewards a broad work record over a concentrated one, and it is the only formula of its kind in the federal table.
- The weekly range is $43 to $815. The $815 ceiling is one of the highest in the country — unsurprising alongside a $46,600 taxable wage base, far above the $7,000 to $15,000 typical elsewhere.
- Part-time work: 60% of the weekly amount is ignored. That is the most generous percentage-of-benefit disregard anywhere; most states sit between 20% and 50%.
- Duration comes from a weighted schedule of base-period to high-quarter wages, giving 12 to 26 weeks — again rewarding even earnings.
- Qualifying takes 1.5 times high-quarter wages with wages in two quarters.
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 Job Service North Dakota determination rather than a replacement for it.
Weekly maximums nearest North Dakota
States whose maximum weekly benefit is closest to North Dakota: