Portable long service leave: LSL Statutory Entitlements
The LSL Statutory Entitlements carries 12 published figures read from 13 sources' own pages, from 5 to 10 year, read 26 September 2026.
- 15 to 6
- 6 to 7
- 57 to 8
- 8 to 8
- 8 to 9
- 69 to 10
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 5 to 6 | 1 source |
| 6 to 7 | 0 sources |
| 7 to 8 | 5 sources |
| 8 to 8 | 0 sources |
| 8 to 9 | 0 sources |
| 9 to 10 | 6 sources |
13 of the 26 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 26 September 2026.
The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 8.50 year across 12).
By term
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| term New South Wales: qualifying period | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term Victoria: weeks of service per week of leave | 60 week | 60 to 60 week | 1 |
| term Queensland: weeks at the qualifying point | 8.67 week | 8.67 to 8.67 week | 1 |
| term Queensland: further accrual per 5 years | 4.33 week | 4.33 to 4.33 week | 1 |
| term Queensland: pro-rata threshold on termination | 7 year | 7 to 7 year | 1 |
| term Queensland: qualifying period | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term New South Wales: qualifying period (Act s4) | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term New South Wales: further accrual per 5 years | 1 month | 1 to 1 month | 1 |
| term South Australia: accrual per year of service | 1.3 week | 1.3 to 1.3 week | 1 |
| term South Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination | 7 year | 7 to 7 year | 1 |
| term Tasmania: qualifying period | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term Tasmania: further accrual period | 5 year | 5 to 5 year | 1 |
| term Tasmania: qualifying period (Act s8) | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term Australian Capital Territory: weeks at 7 years | 6.07 week | 6.07 to 6.07 week | 1 |
| term Tasmania: pro-rata threshold on termination | 7 year | 7 to 7 year | 1 |
| term Victoria: qualifying period | 7 year | 7 to 7 year | 1 |
| term Western Australia: qualifying period | 10 year | 10 to 10 year | 1 |
| term Western Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination | 7 year | 7 to 7 year | 1 |
| term Western Australia: weeks at the qualifying point | 8.67 week | 8.67 to 8.67 week | 1 |
| term Western Australia: further accrual per 5 years | 4.33 week | 4.33 to 4.33 week | 1 |
| term New South Wales: leave at 10 years | 2 month | 2 to 2 month | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victorian Government - long service leave | 60 week | Victoria: weeks of service per week of leave | 2026-09-26 |
| NSW Government - long service leave | 10 year | New South Wales: qualifying period | 2026-09-26 |
| Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service | 10 year | Queensland: qualifying period | 2026-09-19 |
| Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force | 10 year | New South Wales: qualifying period (Act s4) | 2026-09-19 |
| WorkSafe Tasmania - long service leave | 10 year | Tasmania: qualifying period | 2026-09-19 |
| Long Service Leave Act 1976 (Tas), in force | 10 year | Tasmania: qualifying period (Act s8) | 2026-09-19 |
| Private Sector Labour Relations WA - entitlements to long service leave | 10 year | Western Australia: qualifying period | 2026-09-19 |
| Private Sector Labour Relations WA - overview of long service leave | 8.67 week | Western Australia: weeks at the qualifying point | 2026-09-19 |
| Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service | 8.67 week | Queensland: weeks at the qualifying point | 2026-09-19 |
| Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service | 7 year | Queensland: pro-rata threshold on termination | 2026-09-19 |
| SafeWork SA - long service leave | 7 year | South Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination | 2026-09-19 |
| WorkSafe Tasmania - pro rata long service leave | 7 year | Tasmania: pro-rata threshold on termination | 2026-09-19 |
| Business Victoria - Long Service Leave Act 2018 FAQs | 7 year | Victoria: qualifying period | 2026-09-19 |
| Private Sector Labour Relations WA - long service leave when employment ends | 7 year | Western Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination | 2026-09-19 |
| WorkSafe ACT - long service leave guidance material | 6.07 week | Australian Capital Territory: weeks at 7 years | 2026-09-19 |
| WorkSafe Tasmania - long service leave | 5 year | Tasmania: further accrual period | 2026-09-19 |
| Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service | 4.33 week | Queensland: further accrual per 5 years | 2026-09-19 |
| Private Sector Labour Relations WA - overview of long service leave | 4.33 week | Western Australia: further accrual per 5 years | 2026-09-19 |
| Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force | 2 month | New South Wales: leave at 10 years | 2026-09-19 |
| SafeWork SA - long service leave | 1.3 week | South Australia: accrual per year of service | 2026-09-19 |
| Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force | 1 month | New South Wales: further accrual per 5 years | 2026-09-19 |
The sentence each figure was read from (21)
- Victorian Government - long service leave, read 2026-09-26:
Long service leave accrues at a rate of one week for every 60 weeks of continuous service – that's about 0.866 of a week each year.
- NSW Government - long service leave, read 2026-09-26:
Long service leave is a period of paid leave a worker can take after completing 10 years of continuous service with an employer.
- Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service, read 2026-09-19:
After the completion of 10 years' service, the entitlement for pro-rata long service leave is based on the employee's full period of continuous service.
- Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force, read 2026-09-19:
(a) Subject to paragraph (a2) and subsection (13) the amount of long service leave to which a worker shall be so entitled shall— (i) in the case of a worker who has completed at least 10 years service with an employer be—
- WorkSafe Tasmania - long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
The long service leave entitlement is 8⅔ weeks of paid leave after completing 10 years of ‘continuous employment’.
- Long Service Leave Act 1976 (Tas), in force, read 2026-09-19:
(2) Subject to subsection (4) , the period of long service leave to which an employee is entitled under this Act is – (a) on the completion by an employee of at least 10 years' continuous employment with his employer–
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - entitlements to long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
An employee can take leave after 10 years of continuous employment.
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - overview of long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
When a full time, part time, casual or seasonal employee completes 10 years of continuous employment, they accrue an entitlement to 8.667 weeks of paid long service leave.
- Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service, read 2026-09-19:
Employees are entitled to take 8.6667 weeks of paid long service leave after a period of 10 years' continuous service.
- Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service, read 2026-09-19:
Employees may have an entitlement to receive proportionate payment of long service leave on termination of employment after completing 7 years continuous service.
- SafeWork SA - long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
A pro-rata long service leave entitlement becomes available after 7 years of continuous service.
- WorkSafe Tasmania - pro rata long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
An employee (including part-time and casual employees) may be entitled to a payment for pro rata long service leave on termination after completing 7 years but less than 10 years of ‘continuous employment’.
- Business Victoria - Long Service Leave Act 2018 FAQs, read 2026-09-19:
Under the LSL Act 2018, the entitlement to take leave arises at 7 years, and employees are entitled to apply for leave from that day.
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - long service leave when employment ends, read 2026-09-19:
Private sector employees in WA may be entitled to payment for long service leave when their employment ends after 7 years of continuous employment.
- WorkSafe ACT - long service leave guidance material, read 2026-09-19:
An employee who completes a period of continuous service of at least 7 years is entitled to 6.0667 weeks paid leave.
- WorkSafe Tasmania - long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
After each additional 5 years of ‘continuous employment’, an employee’s entitlement is 4⅓ weeks of leave.
- Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service, read 2026-09-19:
When an employee has completed their first 10 years' of continuous service, they are entitled to take an additional 4.3333 weeks' paid long service leave once they have completed a further 5 years' continuous service.
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - overview of long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
An employee will accrue a further 4.333 weeks of long service leave for every 5 years of continuous employment after the initial 10 years.
- Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force, read 2026-09-19:
(A) in respect of 10 years service so completed, 2 months, and
- SafeWork SA - long service leave, read 2026-09-19:
A worker accrues long service leave at 1.3 weeks per completed year of service.
- Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force, read 2026-09-19:
(B) in respect of each 5 years service with the employer completed since the worker last became entitled to long service leave, 1 month, and
Read in full, publishes no figure
13 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- NSW Government - long service leave guidance, read 2026-09-19: every candidate on the page was refused
- Business Victoria - long service leave overview, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Business Victoria - calculate long service leave, read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Business Victoria - long service leave on employment termination, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Business Queensland - long service leave, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SafeWork SA - who is entitled to long service leave, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- NT Government - long service leave, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- WorkSafe ACT - long service leave, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Fair Work Ombudsman - long service leave, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Long Service Leave Act 1987 (SA) on South Australian Legislation, read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic) on Victorian Legislation, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Long Service Leave Act 1976 (ACT) on ACT Legislation Register, read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- the regulator per jurisdiction, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
13 of the 26 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 13 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in year (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 108 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
Derivation as chartered: one row per jurisdiction per term - qualifying period, weeks at the qualifying point, accrual per further year, the pro-rata threshold and the reasons that unlock it, whether it can be cashed out, the notice an employer must give - each quoted from that jurisdiction's own regulator with the Act and section named.
The cross-jurisdiction comparison is the figure nobody publishes: the qualifying period runs from 7 years (Victoria, ACT) to 10 (everywhere else), and the same ten years buys 8.6667 weeks in NSW, Queensland, WA and Tasmania against 13 weeks in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Changed-since is the news when an Act is amended.
108 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (26)
- NSW Government - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NSW Government - long service leave guidance (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Long Service Leave Act 1955 (NSW), in force (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Victoria - long service leave overview (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Victoria - calculate long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Victoria - long service leave on employment termination (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Victoria - Long Service Leave Act 2018 FAQs (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Victorian Government - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Queensland - long service leave entitlements and continuous service (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Queensland - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - entitlements to long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - long service leave when employment ends (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Private Sector Labour Relations WA - overview of long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SafeWork SA - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SafeWork SA - who is entitled to long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- WorkSafe Tasmania - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- WorkSafe Tasmania - pro rata long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Long Service Leave Act 1976 (Tas), in force (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NT Government - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- WorkSafe ACT - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- WorkSafe ACT - long service leave guidance material (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Fair Work Ombudsman - long service leave (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Long Service Leave Act 1987 (SA) on South Australian Legislation (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic) on Victorian Legislation (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Long Service Leave Act 1976 (ACT) on ACT Legislation Register (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- the regulator per jurisdiction (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The LSL Statutory Entitlements carries 12 published figures read from 13 sources' own pages, from 5 to 10 year, read 26 September 2026.
13 of the 26 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term New South Wales: qualifying period: median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Victoria: weeks of service per week of leave: median 60 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Queensland: weeks at the qualifying point: median 8.67 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Queensland: further accrual per 5 years: median 4.33 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Queensland: pro-rata threshold on termination: median 7 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Queensland: qualifying period: median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term New South Wales: qualifying period (Act s4): median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term New South Wales: further accrual per 5 years: median 1 month across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term South Australia: accrual per year of service: median 1.30 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term South Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination: median 7 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Tasmania: qualifying period: median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Tasmania: further accrual period: median 5 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Tasmania: qualifying period (Act s8): median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Australian Capital Territory: weeks at 7 years: median 6.07 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Tasmania: pro-rata threshold on termination: median 7 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Victoria: qualifying period: median 7 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Western Australia: qualifying period: median 10 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Western Australia: pro-rata threshold on termination: median 7 year across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Western Australia: weeks at the qualifying point: median 8.67 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term Western Australia: further accrual per 5 years: median 4.33 week across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
LSL Statutory Entitlements, term New South Wales: leave at 10 years: median 2 month across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.
The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 8.50 year across 12).
Cite as: "longserviceleavecalc.com LSL Statutory Entitlements", updated 2026-09-26, https://longserviceleavecalc.com/datasets/lsl-statutory-entitlements/.
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