Use the calculator to estimate your daily allowance for your period of unemployment or temporary lay-off. If you are already receiving earnings-related allowance, you can use the calculator to estimate how the graduated reduction, your salary, or business income affects your benefit.
TYJ represents unemployment funds
Unemployment funds pay earnings-related unemployment security to their members during periods of unemployment. The Federation of Unemployment Funds in Finland (TYJ) supports the work of the funds and advocates for an efficient, clear, and fair unemployment security system.
Benefits of joining an unemployment fund
By joining an unemployment fund, you will receive earnings-related allowance based on your salary level if you become unemployed. Finland has 11 unemployment funds for wage earners and one for the self-employed. About half of the wage earners’ funds are open to all wage earners. There are five industry- or profession-specific funds.
Explore the funds and find the right one for you here:
Allowance calculator
Moving to Finland
When moving to Finland, you should join an unemployment fund as soon as you start working. This way, your employment helps you qualify for earnings-related unemployment security. Joining a fund promptly also affects whether your employment in another EU country can be taken into account when you apply for unemployment security in Finland.
More information on earnings-related allowance and why almost 2 million Finns are members in unemployment funds: