Oregon Unemployment Calculator: Up to $902/Week, 26 Weeks

Oregon benefits for a weekly wage you already know

Oregon reads the whole base year instead of one quarter: the weekly amount is 1.25% of base-year wages. Fifty-two weeks at $500 come to $26,000, so the benefit is $325, 65% of that paycheck. The share stays at 65% until the $902 cap, which an unchanging $1,388 weekly wage reaches; past it the share shrinks, to 30% at $3,000. The rows are for a claim filed October 25, 2026 by someone paid the same amount every week of the year.

Worked example: base-year wages to a claim balance

A claim effective October 12, 2026 whose base year shows $10,000, $12,500, $11,000 and $9,500. The worksheet above returns each of these figures for the same four quarters and date.

Oregon's rate uses the whole base year, not a best quarter, so moving pay between quarters changes nothing here as long as the 1.5-times test still holds. Twenty-six payments come in under one-third of wages, so this claimant could draw the full 26 weeks. Enter the same quarters and date to see the identical result.

The June 28 claim-date boundary matters

Oregon's agency glossary publishes a $211 minimum and $902 maximum weekly amount beginning June 28, 2026. For earlier 2026 effective dates, the January federal comparison lists $204 and $872. This calculator supports claim dates from January 1, 2026 through July 3, 2027. Dates before June 28, 2026 use the earlier schedule; dates from June 28, 2026 through July 3, 2027 use $211–$902. A blank claim date uses your current local date.

ORS 657.150 ties the annual change to the week that includes July 4. That week starts June 28 in 2026 and July 4 in 2027, establishing this schedule's supported boundary. For later dates after the supported periods, use the official-award worksheet with the agency's weekly award, account balance and authorized weeks; an unverified successor is not inferred. A later maximum does not automatically replace the rate on an already-established claim. Use the effective date on your Wage and Potential Benefit Report.

Qualify through wages or covered hours

The ordinary monetary route requires at least $1,000 in covered base-year wages and total wages of at least 1.5 times the highest quarter. If that route fails, the alternative is at least 500 hours of covered employment with some subject wages during the base year.

Enter hours when the alternative route is needed. If the wage test fails and hours are blank, eligibility remains unknown; the form does not assume fewer than 500 hours. Explicit hours below 500 fail that alternative test. The agency decides covered employment, selects the base year and verifies any requalification requirement after a prior benefit year.

Annual wages set the weekly amount

ORS 657.150 sets the weekly amount at 1.25% of total base-year wages, limited by the applicable minimum and maximum and rounded down to a whole dollar. Four $8,000 quarters total $32,000 and give a $400 weekly amount. Their distribution passes the wage route without needing the hours alternative.

At $400, 26 weeks give a $10,400 balance, below one-third of $32,000. Ten full eligible weeks model $4,000. Withholding is displayed separately and does not change the gross award.

A minimum weekly amount does not guarantee a large balance

Consider $1,000 paid in a single quarter and zero in the other quarters. The 1.5-times test fails. If the agency confirms 500 covered hours, the alternative can qualify the monetary claim. Under the newer schedule, the weekly formula is raised to $211, but the balance is limited to one-third of the $1,000 wages, rounded down to $333.

The statute uses the smaller of 26 weekly amounts and one-third of base-year wages, with the balance rounded down to a whole dollar. A 26-week ceiling therefore does not promise 26 full checks. The form caps any modeled total at the available balance.

Payment adjustments need a weekly review

Current earnings, hours, work search, availability, waiting-week treatment, pensions and offsets can alter payment. This worksheet models full eligible weeks before those adjustments. It does not calculate partial unemployment or decide whether a separation qualifies.

Oregon references

• OED glossary: June 28, 2026 weekly limits
• OED questions: wage and 500-hour qualification routes
• ORS 657.150: weekly formula, rounding and balance
• U.S. DOL January 2026 comparison

Checked October 2, 2026, including the legislature's 2026 amendment table. See calculation scope or compare Colorado's consecutive-quarter method.

Supported claim periods and annual handoff

The Oregon wage-estimate calendar supports 2026-01-01 to 2026-06-27; 2026-06-28 to 2027-07-03. 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.