Texas worker tools
Working part time while claiming benefits?
Enter the weekly benefit amount from your TWC determination and your gross employee earnings for the week. This is a planning estimate, before taxes and other adjustments.
Your weekly estimate
How the estimate works
The allowance is the greater of $5 or 25% of your weekly benefit amount. Earnings above it reduce the estimated benefit. We add earnings across jobs, then round that reported total down to whole dollars.
Official sources disagree on rounding a partial payment. The statute rounds fractional payments up; TWC's public example calculator rounds to the nearest dollar. When that changes the result, we show both amounts as a range. TWC determines the actual payment.
This tool covers ordinary employee earnings. Self-employment, Shared Work and special programs use other rules. Full-time work, work-search requirements, waiting weeks, claim balance, severance and other income may affect payment or eligibility.
Checked September 7, 2026: Texas Labor Code, Chapter 207 · TWC earnings tutorial · TWC example calculator.