Long Service Leave Calculator VIC 🇦🇺
Calculate your long service leave entitlements in Victoria. 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.
VIC Rules:
Accrues at 0.8667 weeks per year after 7 years
Introduction
Victoria rewrote its Long Service Leave Act in 2018. The new model is more flexible than its predecessor and remains the only regime that expressly allows leave at half pay. Below you will find the legislative essentials, payroll rules, and practical examples to plug into our online calculator.
Core entitlement
- 6.0667 weeks after seven years.
- Continuous accrual thereafter at 0.8667 weeks per year.
- Casuals and seasonal staff included.
- No cash-out while employed.
Continuous employment rules
Victoria treats unpaid leave up to 52 weeks as service. Anything above a year can still count if employer and employee agree in writing or if the absence is illness or injury. Service is also preserved when an employee is re-hired within 12 weeks of termination or the expiry of a fixed-term contract.
Accessing leave
An employee may apply for LSL once they reach the seven-year threshold. Requests must give reasonable notice, and employers can refuse only on reasonable business grounds. Leave can be taken at half pay, effectively doubling its length, if both sides agree.
Direction to take leave
Employers may require staff to commence LSL with 12 weeks' written notice if the balance exceeds the statutory minimum.
Public holidays
Public holidays falling during LSL add an extra paid day.
Pro-rata payout
The entire balance becomes money if service ends at or beyond seven years, irrespective of cause. No payout below seven years except by court order, so resignations at 6 years 11 months yield nothing.
Calculator workflow
Input service length, ordinary weekly hours, and choose whether you are finishing employment. The tool multiplies total service years by 0.8667 to arrive at weeks, then converts to hours. It also shows the exact date you first reached seven years, helping HR anticipate requests.
Example scenarios
Employee with 8 years service
- Weeks: 8 × 0.8667 = 6.9336 weeks.
- Hours: 6.9336 × 38 = 263.5 hours.
Employee with 15 years service
- Weeks: 15 × 0.8667 = 13.0005 weeks.
- Hours: 13.0005 × 38 = 494.0 hours.
Compliance note: Remember that casual loading is included in the ordinary rate of pay for LSL calculations.