Unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania

(4% of your highest-quarter wages, plus $2) × 0.98, floored and capped by a statutory table (43 P.S. §804) — roughly half of full-time weekly wages. The minimum weekly benefit is $68, and the maximum is $605. Maximum unchanged from 2025 — the statutory trigger for an increase was not met. A dependents' allowance of $5 (one dependent) or $8 (two or more) adds to the base rate.

16–26 weeks, depending on credit weeks worked in the base period.

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

$605 a week is the most Pennsylvania 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: (4% of your highest-quarter wages, plus $2) × 0.98, floored and capped by a statutory table (43 P.S. §804) — roughly half of full-time weekly wages.

This page does not model payment dates. Timing is set by Pennsylvania'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.