State Disability Insurance Benefit Payments

The EDD pays SDI benefits to the employee weekly, based on a seven-day workweek (regardless of the number of days per week an employee normally works).

SDI Benefit Amounts

The weekly SDI benefit ranges from approximately between 70 to 90 percent of the wages the employee earned in the highest quarter of the base period, depending on the employee’s income, and subject to a maximum weekly benefit amount.¹ A table of specific benefit amounts based on earnings is in the Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave Benefit Amounts