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Long Service Leave Calculator SA

Work out long service leave under the Long Service Leave Act 1987 (SA): 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 South Australia?

13 weeks of paid leave after 10 years of continuous service under the Long Service Leave Act 1987 (SA), accruing at 1.3 weeks per year of completed service. 13 weeks after 10 years, accruing at 1.3 weeks per completed year and continuing at that rate afterwards. From 7 years, a pro-rata lump sum is payable on termination including resignation, unless the dismissal was for serious and wilful misconduct or the worker ended the contract unlawfully.

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 South Australia, long service leave runs under the Long Service Leave Act 1987 (SA), administered by SafeWork SA. 13 weeks after 10 years, accruing at 1.3 weeks per completed year and continuing at that rate afterwards. From 7 years, a pro-rata lump sum is payable on termination including resignation, unless the dismissal was for serious and wilful misconduct or the worker ended the contract unlawfully.

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

Most workers are covered whether full-time, part-time or casual. Ordinary weekly rate of pay, excluding overtime, shift premiums and penalty rates. South Australia counts completed years only. 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 South Australia?

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

Do casual employees get long service leave in South Australia?

Most workers are covered whether full-time, part-time or casual.

What pay rate applies to long service leave in South Australia?

Ordinary weekly rate of pay, excluding overtime, shift premiums and penalty rates. South Australia counts completed years only.

Who administers long service leave in South Australia?

SafeWork SA. 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 SafeWork SA or your own adviser. Last reviewed July 2026.