Calculate your daily allowance

You can make an estimate of your daily allowance based on your personal income. Fill in the form and click “CALCULATE”. The application gives you a calculation of the gross and net amount of your allowance. You can also make estimates how income from part-time employment or social benefits affects the size of your allowance.

Choose if you are applying for earnings security or alternation compensation.

Enter here your regular monthly income or estimate your average monthly income (gross income, i.e. income before tax deductions).

The amount of daily allowance is, as a rule, counted on the basis of the net income you have earned during the 6 months preceding your unemployment. More precisely, the income from those 26 weeks during which you have worked for at least 18 hours and your salary has been according to the collective agreement are taken into account.

Child increase is paid for max. 3 children under 18 years old whom you take care of. Child increase is not added to alternation compensation.  

Earnings-related daily allowance is taxable income. If the withholding tax is deducted according to a tax card for employment income, the deduction must be at least 25 per cent. It is advisable for you to get a revised tax card counted for a benefit. When the revised tax card for benefit is used the deduction is done without an increase.

Increased earnings-related partEarnings-related daily allowance can be paid with an increased earnings-related part, if you participate in an employment promotion service.

Increased earnings-related part shall be paid for a maximum of 200 days during employment promotion services agreed on in an employment plan or a plan substituting it, as referred to in section 10 of the Unemployment Security Act.

Enter here the net amount of the income you have earned during the application period. Here you can also inform the income from part-time entrepreneurship. Earnings-related daily allowance is paid as adjusted when:

• you have a part-time job and the working time agreed upon in the employment contract is max. 80 per cent of the maximum working time in the trade

•  you have been laid-off for a shortened working time

• you have a full-time job that lasts max. two weeks

• you have income from part-time entrepreneurship.

Enter here the amount of social benefits you have received during the application period in case they are benefits that reduce the amount of unemployment daily allowance.

The following social benefits reduce the amount of earnings-related daily allowance:

• home care allowance
• flexible care allowance
• financial aid for studies
• partial disability pension
• disability pension benefit paid from another country
• part-time pension
• old-age pension (not full)
• old-age pension which has not been granted on the basis of full years of service
• additional pension arranged by the employer
• farm closure pension
• farm closure compensation
• compensation for loss of income and disability pension under the Motor Liability Insurance Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
• daily allowance under the Military Injuries Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
• compensation paid under the Military Accidents Act
• an amount corresponding to the supplementary annuity under the Employment Accident Insurance Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
• accident pension which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
• compensation for loss of income under the Act on Compensation for Criminal Damages
• compensation for loss of income under the Patient Injury Act
• guarantee pension if it has been granted to supplement one of the abovementioned benefits

The following social benefits prevent the payment of earnings-related daily allowance:

• maternity, paternity or parental allowance
• special care allowance and special maternity allowance
• education support
• unemployment pension
• full disability pension granted in Finland
• career pension
• full old-age pension
• early old-age pension
• individual early retirement pension
• guarantee pension as supplement to pension
• pension subsidy
• daily allowance under the Health Insurance Act
• daily allowance under the Accident Insurance Act
• compensation for loss of income under the Motor Liability Insurance Act and Accident Insurance Act
• rehabilitation allowance and corresponding compensation for loss of income
• farm closure allowance
• change of generation pension

The following benefits do not affect daily allowance:

• housing allowance under the Housing Allowance Act (408/1975)
• housing allowance under the Act on the Housing Allowance for Pensioners (571/2007)
• child benefit
• partial home care allowance
• flexible care allowance paid to your spouse
• additional allowance for home care paid by the municipality
• family pensions including care and additional care pensions
• care allowance under the Basic Pension Act
• allowance for the care of a close relative paid by the municipality
• partial early old-age pension
• subsidies under the Family Carer Act
• pensioner’s care allowance under the Disability Benefits Act (570/2007)
• life annuity and supplementary annuity and special cost compensations under the Military Injuries Act
• disability allowance under the Disability Benefits Act (570/2007)
• income support
• military benefit under the Act on Military Benefits (781/1993)
• special cost compensations under the Accident Insurance Act and Military Injuries Act
• special cost compensations under the Motor Liability Insurance Act
• handicap allowance under the Accident Insurance Act
• additional war pensions
• additional pensions you have taken for yourself

Päivärahan perusteena oleva kuukausipalkka saadaan siten, että vakiintuneesta kuukausipalkasta luontoisetuineen tehdään lakisääteinen tel-vähennys, joka vuonna 2021 on 4,34 % prosenttia. Lisäksi päivärahan perusteena olevaan palkkaan ei huomioida lomarahaa tai lomakorvausta. Näistä syistä päivärahan perusteena oleva palkkasi on aina hieman pienempi kuin todellinen kuukausipalkkasi.

This is an estimate of how much earnings-related daily allowance you will receive during the period you have reported. You can use the estimate to order a new tax card from the Tax Administration.

Päiväpalkka on laskettu jakamalla kuukausipalkka luvulla 21,5.