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Work out long service leave under the Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic): 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.
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 Victoria?

6.0667 weeks of paid leave after 7 years of continuous service under the Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic), accruing at 0.8667 weeks per year. 1 week for every 60 weeks of continuous service (0.8667 weeks a year), and the leave can be taken from 7 years. On termination after 7 years, unused leave is paid out whatever the reason, with no misconduct exclusion.

How we calculated this

In Victoria, long service leave runs under the Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic), administered by Workforce Inspectorate Victoria. 1 week for every 60 weeks of continuous service (0.8667 weeks a year), and the leave can be taken from 7 years. On termination after 7 years, unused leave is paid out whatever the reason, with no misconduct exclusion.

There is no pro-rata band in Victoria: nothing is payable below 7 years, and from 7 years the accrued leave is paid out on termination for any reason.

Casual and seasonal employees accrue long service leave while employment is continuous; a gap of up to 12 weeks between engagements (or longer in some cases) keeps it continuous. Ordinary weekly rate for normal weekly hours when the leave is taken or employment ends. If hours changed in the last 2 years, Victoria averages hours over the last 52 weeks, 260 weeks or the whole employment, whichever is greatest. A casual's ordinary rate includes the casual loading. 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

Assumptions
  • Continuous service is taken as you enter it. What breaks continuity (unpaid absences, parental leave, gaps between casual engagements, a change of business owner) differs by jurisdiction. If there was a break, the number can be too high.
  • Ordinary weekly pay means the normal rate for ordinary hours: overtime and most allowances excluded. Each jurisdiction has its own averaging rules where hours or pay have changed, so for someone whose hours dropped recently the figure you enter may not be the figure the law uses.
  • South Australia and the Northern Territory count completed years only; the other jurisdictions credit part-years. Close to a milestone that difference is worth weeks.
  • Dollars are gross. Leave paid out on termination is taxed under the ATO's unused-leave rules, so the amount that reaches the person is lower.
  • Portable long service schemes (construction, contract cleaning, community services and coal mining, depending on the state) and any long service leave terms preserved in an award or agreement are not modelled. The state Act is the floor, and the calculator applies the Act.
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What to do about it

The entitlement is arithmetic once you know which rule book applies. The harder question is whether the people between year five and year ten are still going to be here to take it. These steps are for whoever administers leave and whoever manages the long-serving people, which is rarely the same person.

1

Confirm which rule book applies, and write it down

The state Act, a preserved award term, an agreement term, or a portable scheme. Note the instrument you relied on next to the figure. Two people in the same office can sit under different rules, and the mistake is expensive in the direction of underpayment.

2

Check continuity before you check the maths

Get the full service record from payroll, including periods before the current system, and look for unpaid leave, parental leave, casual gaps and any transfer of business. Continuity rules differ by jurisdiction and a break can reset or pause the clock.

3

Ask finance how the liability is provisioned

Long service leave accrues from year one even though it vests years later, and the provision should reflect current pay rates and the people who will realistically reach the milestone. If nobody has looked at it since the last audit, this calculator is a fast way to spot-check the largest balances.

4
Where a tool helps

Read the near-miss list

Everyone who left between year five and year nine over the last three years is a person who nearly stayed. Log why they went, as they told it and as you read it. If the reasons cluster around one manager or one team, the ten-year cohort you are counting on is already thinner than it looks.

5

Plan the leave rather than only paying it out

Someone taking two or three months away is a live succession test. Decide who covers and what they will own. Then decide what you want to know about the role by the time the person comes back.

Ten years is a choice
made every day.

Compono Engage is an employee engagement platform that reads culture and climate alongside work personality, so you can see which of the people between year five and year ten are drifting before they resign. Payroll knows the accrual to the day. It has nothing to say about whether the person will still be here to take it.

Step 4 asks you to read the near-miss list by hand. Engage reads it while the people are still on the payroll, team by team, with the reason attached. The weeks above are what loyalty is worth. Engage is how you keep earning it.

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Common questions

Do you get long service leave if you resign in Victoria?

After 7 years, yes: unused leave is paid out on termination for any reason. There is no pro-rata band in Victoria: nothing is payable below 7 years, and from 7 years the accrued leave is paid out on termination for any reason.

Do casual employees get long service leave in Victoria?

Casual and seasonal employees accrue long service leave while employment is continuous; a gap of up to 12 weeks between engagements (or longer in some cases) keeps it continuous.

What pay rate applies to long service leave in Victoria?

Ordinary weekly rate for normal weekly hours when the leave is taken or employment ends. If hours changed in the last 2 years, Victoria averages hours over the last 52 weeks, 260 weeks or the whole employment, whichever is greatest. A casual's ordinary rate includes the casual loading.

Who administers long service leave in Victoria?

Workforce Inspectorate Victoria. 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 Workforce Inspectorate Victoria or your own adviser. Last reviewed July 2026.

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