Utah Unemployment Benefits Calculator
Utah claimant entry
Utah agency-award worksheet
For Utah, enter the weekly award, maximum balance, and payable weeks issued by Utah Department of Workforce Services; this route asserts no state-law formula.
Utah Department of Workforce Services controls Utah eligibility and the monetary record; this worksheet only mirrors Utah values for review and never awards benefits.
Utah claimant source: https://jobs.utah.gov/ui/home — checked 2026-09-14 by this implementation.
Utah determination checklist
Use the Utah DWS claimant account and monetary determination as the controlling record. Match each employer and completed-quarter wage entry before treating the worksheet total as a planning estimate.
Utah: filing and evidence
Utah is presented here in award-entry mode. Utah Department of Workforce Services reference material lists a Utah ceiling of $806 weekly and 26 reference weeks, a pairing worth $20,956; neither figure proves monetary eligibility, payable weeks, or approval.
Utah filing desk
Utah unemployment benefits belongs with Utah Department of Workforce Services; this is the claimant-facing starting point.
https://jobs.utah.gov/ui/homeUtah wage record boundary
Utah uses the claim-date base period and employer wage record; the published maximum is not enough to compute an award.
Utah claimant next action
File with Utah DWS and report a missing employer through the claimant account’s wage-record process. For Utah, keep employer names, pay-stub dates, gross wages, separation details, and work-search records together; Utah Department of Workforce Services needs the Utah record when checking base-period quarters and the monetary determination.
Utah agency source link (https://jobs.utah.gov/ui/home) checked 2026-09-14; the federal comparison table is listed on the shared sources page.
Utah subtracts a flat $5 from your weekly amount, and sets the total purely as a share of wages
Two quirks make Utah's arithmetic unlike anywhere else. The weekly computation ends with a flat $5 subtraction, and the maximum benefit amount is stated as 27% of base-period wages with no weeks-multiple alternative.
- 1/26 of high-quarter wages, minus $5. The subtraction is not a percentage or a rounding step — it is a fixed five dollars off every claimant's weekly figure, which matters proportionally more at the bottom of the range.
- The total is 27% of base-period wages, full stop. Most states cap the claim at the lesser of a wage share and a multiple of the weekly amount. Utah uses only the wage share, so the duration range of 10 to 26 weeks emerges entirely from the relationship between your quarters.
- The weekly range is $47 to $806. The $806 ceiling is one of the highest in the country.
- Qualifying takes $5,500 in the base period and 1.5 times high-quarter wages.
- Every employer is covered regardless of payroll size, and 30% of the weekly amount is disregarded when you work part-time.
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 Workforce Services determination rather than a replacement for it.
Weekly maximums nearest Utah
States whose maximum weekly benefit is closest to Utah: