Unemployment Estimate

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Unemployment benefits in North Carolina

$350Maximum weekly benefit

$350 a week (N.C. Gen. Stat. 96-14.2)1

The details

Minimum weekly benefit
No benefits if the computed weekly amount is less than $15.1
How the weekly amount is figured
Wages in the last two completed quarters of the base period divided by 52, rounded down to a whole dollar.1

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

Figures come from the statute. The DES benefit pages were not opened.

Sources

  1. N.C. Gen. Stat. 96-14.2 Weekly benefit amount, North Carolina General Assembly, checked 1 November 2026

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