HRS §392-22
Weekly benefit amount
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section explains how your weekly workers' compensation benefit is calculated. It depends on your average weekly wage, with a percentage formula and a maximum limit. Some high earnings are not counted.
employees
The statute, as written — Weekly benefit amount
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Benefits shall be computed as weekly amounts in the manner provided in this section: (1) If the average weekly wage of the employee is less than $26, the weekly benefit amount shall be equal to the average weekly wage but not more than $14; (2) If the average weekly wage of the employee is $26 or more the weekly benefit amount shall be fifty-eight per cent of the average weekly wage rounded off, if not a multiple of $1, to the next higher multiple of $1; (3) If the average weekly earnings of the employee exceed an amount equal to one fifty-second of the product obtained by multiplying the amount of the average annual wage in Hawaii, as determined pursuant to section 383-22(b), by the factor of 1.21, such excess shall not be included in the computation of the weekly benefit amount; and (4) In no case shall the weekly benefit amount exceed the maximum weekly benefit specified in section 386-31.
Sections this one refers to
§383-22 How your weekly unemployment check amount is calculated
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