Unemployment Estimate

All states

Unemployment benefits in Missouri

$320Maximum weekly benefit

$320 a week for initial claims filed in 2008 and later (RSMo 288.038)12

The details

How the weekly amount is figured
4 percent of the average of wages paid in the two highest quarters of the base period.1

The sources we read do not say: minimum weekly benefit, maximum weeks, waiting week, base period, how to apply.

Weeks are left out. RSMo 288.060 lists 13 to 20 weeks but carries a note that it was declared unconstitutional, and the US DOL table lists 8 to 20.

Sources

  1. RSMo 288.038, Missouri Revisor of Statutes, checked 1 November 2026
  2. Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, January 2026, US Department of Labor, checked 1 November 2026

Checked 1 November 2026. "Secondary" marks a source used only because the official page could not be read.