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Long Service Leave Calculator ACT

Work out long service leave under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 (ACT): accrual, vesting at 7 years, and what is payable when employment ends.

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Decimals are fine (8 years 6 months = 8.5). Unpaid leave generally doesn't count.
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How much long service leave do you get in Australian Capital Territory?

6.0667 weeks of paid leave after 7 years of continuous service under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 (ACT), accruing at 0.8667 weeks per year. 6.0667 weeks after 7 years (the shortest qualifying period in the country, shared with Victoria), then 1/5 of a month for each further year. Between 5 and 7 years, pro-rata is payable on death, retirement age, employer termination (other than serious and wilful misconduct) or resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity.

Where Compono fits

Every long service leave milestone is a decision somebody made to stay, roughly 520 times in a row. The people who reach it are usually the ones carrying your culture and your institutional knowledge, and whether the next cohort gets there is set years earlier, in how engaged they are right now. Compono Engage measures engagement and culture as they move, so you can see who is drifting long before the resignation letter, and act while it still changes the outcome. Compono holds 4.8 out of 5 on Capterra and is used by government departments and mid-market employers across Australia and New Zealand.

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How it's calculated

In Australian Capital Territory, long service leave runs under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 (ACT), administered by WorkSafe ACT. 6.0667 weeks after 7 years (the shortest qualifying period in the country, shared with Victoria), then 1/5 of a month for each further year. Between 5 and 7 years, pro-rata is payable on death, retirement age, employer termination (other than serious and wilful misconduct) or resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity.

Between 5 and 7 years, pro-rata leave is payable on redundancy, dismissal for performance or capacity, resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity. It is not payable on an ordinary resignation or dismissal for serious misconduct.

Full-time and part-time employees are covered; casual coverage is fact-specific in the ACT, so casuals should check with WorkSafe ACT. Portable schemes cover building and construction, cleaning, community sector and security work. Ordinary remuneration excluding overtime, penalties and allowances, with a 5-year averaging rule if hours dropped in the 2 years before the entitlement. Portable long service schemes and pre-2010 federal award terms sit outside this calculator. This is general guidance, not legal advice.

New to the term? Read the plain-English definition of long service leave in the HR Glossary.

State detail pages: NSW · VIC · QLD · WA · SA · TAS · NT · ACT

Common questions

Do you get long service leave if you resign in Australian Capital Territory?

Not on an ordinary resignation before 7 years. Between 5 and 7 years, pro-rata leave is payable on redundancy, dismissal for performance or capacity, resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity. It is not payable on an ordinary resignation or dismissal for serious misconduct.

Do casual employees get long service leave in Australian Capital Territory?

Full-time and part-time employees are covered; casual coverage is fact-specific in the ACT, so casuals should check with WorkSafe ACT. Portable schemes cover building and construction, cleaning, community sector and security work.

What pay rate applies to long service leave in Australian Capital Territory?

Ordinary remuneration excluding overtime, penalties and allowances, with a 5-year averaging rule if hours dropped in the 2 years before the entitlement.

Who administers long service leave in Australian Capital Territory?

WorkSafe ACT. For entitlements in other states and territories, use the national version of this calculator, which covers all eight jurisdictions.

This page is general information, not legal advice. We check figures annually and update them on a best-efforts basis, but employment rules change and we cannot promise everything here is current or complete. Before you act on it, confirm the detail with WorkSafe ACT or your own adviser. Last reviewed July 2026.