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Long Service Leave Calculator QLD

Work out long service leave under the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld): accrual, vesting at 10 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.
Base pay for ordinary hours. Overtime and most allowances are excluded in every state.
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How much long service leave do you get in Queensland?

8.6667 weeks of paid leave after 10 years of continuous service under the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), accruing at 0.86667 weeks per year. 8.6667 weeks after 10 years, a further 4.3333 weeks at 15 years, then unrestricted access to accrued leave beyond 15. Between 7 and 10 years, pro-rata is only payable for specific termination reasons, and a dismissal for conduct, capacity or performance is not one of them.

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 Queensland, long service leave runs under the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), administered by Business Queensland (Office of Industrial Relations). 8.6667 weeks after 10 years, a further 4.3333 weeks at 15 years, then unrestricted access to accrued leave beyond 15. Between 7 and 10 years, pro-rata is only payable for specific termination reasons, and a dismissal for conduct, capacity or performance is not one of them.

Between 7 and 10 years, pro-rata leave is payable on redundancy, resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity. It is not payable on dismissal for performance or capacity, an ordinary resignation or dismissal for serious misconduct.

Casual employees are covered on the same 10-year basis, calculated on total ordinary hours and paid at the loaded casual rate. Current ordinary rate of pay excluding overtime; no leave loading applies to long service leave. 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 Queensland?

Not on an ordinary resignation before 10 years. Between 7 and 10 years, pro-rata leave is payable on redundancy, resignation for illness, incapacity or pressing necessity. It is not payable on dismissal for performance or capacity, an ordinary resignation or dismissal for serious misconduct.

Do casual employees get long service leave in Queensland?

Casual employees are covered on the same 10-year basis, calculated on total ordinary hours and paid at the loaded casual rate.

What pay rate applies to long service leave in Queensland?

Current ordinary rate of pay excluding overtime; no leave loading applies to long service leave.

Who administers long service leave in Queensland?

Business Queensland (Office of Industrial Relations). 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 Business Queensland (Office of Industrial Relations) or your own adviser. Last reviewed July 2026.