Your weekly Employment Insurance and the number of weeks, from your hours and region
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 17 Oct 2026.EI regular benefits pay 55% of your average insurable weekly earnings, up to $729 a week in 2026. The average uses your best 14 to 22 weeks, depending on your region’s unemployment rate, and you are paid for 14 to 45 weeks depending on that rate and your insurable hours.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 17 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
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At $1,200 a week in a 7% region, the weekly EI benefit is $660.
This calculator estimates Employment Insurance regular benefits, the payment for people who lose their job through no fault of their own. Every figure comes from Employment and Social Development Canada's pages on canada.ca.
The weekly amount. Add your insurable earnings in your best weeks, divide by the number of best weeks for your region, and take 55%. The maximum is $729 a week in 2026. Weeks without earnings count as zero if you worked fewer weeks than the divisor.
The number of weeks. canada.ca publishes a table by insurable hours (in steps of 35 from 420) and regional rate, from 14 to 45 weeks. The calculator uses it as printed. Long-tenured workers with claims starting between 15 June 2025 and 12 June 2027 get 20 more weeks, up to 65.
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EI regular benefits are 55% of your average insurable weekly earnings, up to a maximum of $729 a week in 2026, because the maximum insurable earnings are $68,900. Someone whose best weeks averaged $1,200 gets $660 a week before tax. Federal and provincial income tax is deducted from the payments.
From 14 to 45 weeks, depending on the unemployment rate in your EI economic region and your insurable hours in the last 52 weeks. With 1,820 hours in a region at 7.0% you get 38 weeks; in a region above 13% the same hours give 45 weeks.
Between 420 and 700 insurable hours in the qualifying period, usually the last 52 weeks. A region at 6% unemployment or less needs 700 hours; each higher point band needs 35 fewer, down to 420 above 13%. A notice of violation from an earlier claim raises the number.
Service Canada adds your insurable earnings for your highest-paid weeks and divides by a fixed number of best weeks: 22 in regions with 6% unemployment or less, down to 14 above 13%. Weeks with no earnings count as zero, so a short work history lowers the average.
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