How much earnings-related daily allowance is paid?

Earnings-related daily allowance includes the basic part (37,21 €) and the earnings-related part.

The amount of the earnings-related part of daily allowance is calculated from your income using the rules set in the law. Because of this, the salary used in the calculation is not directly comparable to your salary.

We look at your  salary at least for the period when you fulfil the working condition.

We start by deducting the elements that are not considered to be part of the regular salary. Such elements may include holiday pay and holiday compensation.

Then we make a statutory deduction of 4,40 % from the salary.

This gives us  the salary that was used to calculate your daily allowance for the period when you fulfil the working condition. When we divide the salary by the number of calculated working days during the period, we get your daily salary. We use this amount to calculate the earnings-related part.

The earnings-related part is 45% of the difference between your daily salary and the basic part.

We will pay the daily allowance  for  five days per calendar week at the most.

If your monthly income is more than 3 534,95 €, the calculation process is a little more complicated. Up to the income limit (3 534,95 €), the earnings-related part of your daily allowance includes 45% of the income that exceeds the basic part. The percentage for the amount exceeding the income limit is 20.

The income limit per day is 164,42 €.

If the work and the resulting earned income have been seasonal, the daily allowance shall be based on the annual income for the 12 months immediately preceding unemployment.

Work and the resulting earned income are seasonal if, due to natural conditions or other similar reasons, work can only be done at a certain time of the year and if the workload and the earned income from work are therefore significantly higher than usual.

In the annual income calculation, we take into account the earned income received during the definition period and also all other personal income treated as salary. In other words, the annual income calculation takes into account all income types that you have received on the basis of an employment relationship as compensation for work done. In the calculation of the annual income, we do not deduct from salary, for example, holiday bonuses or holiday pay, which are otherwise regularly deducted in the salary calculation based on your established salary.

The calculation of the annual income is not only based on earned income, but also takes into account some social benefits, compensation for loss of earnings and subsidies. The Finnish Government comprehensively lists the benefits to be taken into account in the annual income calculation. These benefits shall be taken into account only to the extent that they are taxable.

The annual income is calculated taking into account the annual income for the 12 months immediately preceding unemployment. The amount per month of annual income is obtained by dividing the annual income by 12, and the daily salary is obtained by dividing the monthly income by 21.5.

Child increase may be paid to earnings-related daily allowance if you are the guardian of a child younger than 18 years. The child increase for one child is 7,01 €, 10,29 € for two children and 13,26 € for three children or more.