Long Service Leave Calculator SA 🇦🇺
Calculate your long service leave entitlements in South Australia. Enter your years of service and ordinary hours per week (default 38) to see your leave entitlement in both weeks and hours. Use the pro-rata option if you're leaving your job.
SA Rules:
Accrues at 1.3 weeks per year after 10 years (Pro-rata available after 7 years)
Introduction
South Australia runs a generous scheme—13 weeks after ten years and a hefty 1.3 weeks for every year thereafter. Here is how that shapes entitlements, why "completed years only" matters on termination, and how our calculator supports HR compliance.
Statutory snapshot
- 13 weeks at 10 years.
- 1.3 weeks each additional year.
- Pro-rata between 7–10 years for any reason except serious and wilful misconduct or unlawful resignation.
Taking leave
The default is one continuous block, yet section 7(4)(b) permits any split agreed by both parties—no minimum duration. Employers can direct leave with 60 days' notice. Public holidays do not add extra leave, unlike most states.
Payment rules
Payment is whichever is higher: the ordinary pay for the last pay period before leave, or the average ordinary pay for the last five years. Casuals average hours across 12 months or five years. Commission-only staff average the better of 12 months or five years' earnings.
Calculator usage
Enter your service duration and weekly hours, and tick Leaving job? for pro-rata. The calculator will:
- Check if your service exceeds seven or ten years and apply the correct block or pro-rata formula.
- Convert weeks to hours using your ordinary hours (default 38).
- Display the next entitlement date if you have not yet hit 10 years.
Example scenarios
Resignation at 8 years 6 months for domestic necessity
- Weeks: 8.5 × 1.3 = 11.05.
- Hours: 11.05 × 38 = 419.9 hours.
Continuous service 17 years full-time
- Weeks: 13 + (7 × 1.3) = 22.1 weeks.
- Hours: 22.1 × 38 = 839.8 hours.
Compliance note: "Forthwith" payment on termination means same day—late payment risks penalties.