Unemployment benefit calculator

How it is calculated

• Conditions (Law 4447 arts 50 and 51): the service contract (hizmet akdi) ended for one of the reasons listed in art. 51; the person was subject to a service contract for the last 120 days before it ended; and at least 600 days of insured work with unemployment-insurance premiums were completed in the last three years. The person must also register in person with the Agency, in time, as ready to take a new job (art. 51).
• Duration (art. 50): 180 days for 600 premium days (prim günü) in the last three years, 240 days for 900 days and 300 days for 1,080 days. The calculator picks the band from the premium days.
• Daily benefit (art. 50): forty per cent of the average daily gross earnings, worked out from the premium-based earnings of the last four months. The amount cannot exceed eighty per cent of the gross monthly minimum wage for workers over 16. The daily average is the four-month earnings you enter divided by the premium days of those months; the Act does not spell out that division.
• Monthly amount. The benefit is paid monthly, on the 5th of each month (art. 50). The calculator shows the amount for 30 days; the 2026 examples published by İŞKUR also work from a monthly average.
• Deductions. The benefit is subject to no tax or deduction except stamp duty (art. 50). The stamp-duty rate is in the table below; the calculator uses the rate that applies to wages, which is the rate in İŞKUR’s examples.
• Minimum wage. The cap uses the gross minimum wage in force on the date you enter. The minimum wages are in the table.

Example

Say 700 premium days were paid in the last three years, the gross earnings of the last four months total 240,000 TL and the premium days of those months are 120. The daily average is 2,000 TL, the daily benefit is 800 TL and the gross benefit for 30 days is 24,000 TL. It is below the monthly cap, so the cap does not apply. The benefit lasts 180 days (700 days fall in the 600-day band).

What it leaves out

• Whether the way the contract ended falls under art. 51. The SGK and İŞKUR records and the termination notice decide each case; the calculator uses only your yes/no answer.
• A suspended contract: a service contract suspended at the time of the application because of a strike, a lock-out or duties imposed by law does not give a right to the benefit (art. 51).
• Stopping or suspension of the benefit (art. 52): income-generating work, an old-age pension, refusing a suitable job or training without just cause, not answering the Agency’s calls, temporary incapacity benefit and similar cases.
• Reinstatement cases and re-employment before the benefit period ends, which affect the period or the entitlement (art. 50).
• Late application: the number of days of delay is not in the calculation; the days are deducted from the benefit period (art. 48).
• A change in the minimum wage during the payment period: the calculator uses the minimum wage on one date.
• Short-time working allowance, half-time working allowance and other payments by the Agency.