Unemployment benefits in Arizona

1/25 (4%) of your highest base-period quarter's wages (A.R.S. §23-779). The maximum is $320. Arizona's statute sets no dollar minimum weekly benefit at all — only a $1 rounding rule — so no minimum is shown here; this is a real absence, not an unresearched gap.

26 weeks' worth of benefits when Arizona's unemployment rate was 5% or higher the prior quarter, 24 weeks' worth when below 5% — both further capped at a third of base-period wages (A.R.S. §23-780).

The standard base period: your wages in the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before you filed your claim.

$320 a week is the most Arizona pays, before any deductions you elect such as tax withholding or child support. Most claimants receive less, because the weekly amount is calculated from your own base-period wages: 1/25 (4%) of your highest base-period quarter's wages (A.R.S. §23-779).

This page does not model payment dates. Timing is set by Arizona's own unemployment agency rather than by the benefit formula, and normally depends on when your weekly or biweekly claim is filed and processed rather than on a fixed calendar day. What this page does model is how much you are owed and for how long, both traced to the sources listed below.