Interactive Earnings Worksheet
(for a new claim filed October 2024–December 2024)

GROSS income for the most recent six quarters, for ONE employer

• List gross income from one employer only.
  If you had income from more than one employer in the past 18 months, use a separarate worksheet for each employer.
• List the income for when the work was done, not when it was paid.
  For example, if you were paid in January for work done in December, list that income as December income.
• Important: Enter only numbers and decimal points in the fields.
  Do not enter dollar signs, commas, or other characters.

How Your Benefit Award Is Calculated

The Standard Base Period is the FIRST FOUR of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the beginning date of the UI claim. (Your UI claim starts from the date you file, not the date you became unemployed.) For example, if you are filing in December 2024, your base period is the four quarters from July 2023 through June 2024.

If you do not have sufficient wages in the Standard Base Period to establish a claim, the EDD will consider whether you qualify to file a claim using the Alternate Base Period. The Alternate Base Period can only be used to file a UI claim when there are not enough wages earned in the Standard Base Period to file a monetarily valid UI claim. The Alternate Base Period is the LAST FOUR completed calendar quarters prior to the beginning date of the claim. For example, if you are filing in December 2024, your alternative base period is the four quarters from October 2023 though September 2024.

To establish a monetarily valid claim, you must have earned at least (1) $1,300 in one quarter of your base period, or (2) at least $900 in your highest quarter and total base period earnings of 1.25 times your high quarter earnings.

The quarter of your base period that you were paid the highest amount of wages determines your weekly benefit amount. See the table on pages 7–9 of A Guide to Benefits and Employment Services to see what your award amount should be. Note that if your highest quarter is $11,674.01 or more you should get the maximum award of $450 per week.

For the most current version of this document, see:
https://contingentworld.com/unemployment/earningstworksheet.php