Queensland long service leave calculator
Calculate a Queensland employee's long service leave from their start and end dates, see which part of the Act applies, and put a value on the weeks.
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- Sources checked 15 Oct 2026
Work out the long service leave
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How it works
Queensland's long service leave rules sit in the Industrial Relations Act 2016 rather than a separate Act. After the full entitlement period in the table below, an employee can take the leave the Act sets for it. Further leave becomes due at the further-leave point in the table, and from there it builds up with their service.
The Act states its leave in weeks as a decimal, and the calculator applies that decimal exactly as printed instead of turning it into a fraction. An employee who leaves at or after the full entitlement period is paid for all of their service, part years included, whatever the reason.
Short of the full entitlement period but past the minimum, a proportion counting part years is paid only for the reasons the Act lists: resigning because of illness, incapacity or a domestic or other pressing necessity, a dismissal because of illness or incapacity, the employer ending the job for a reason that isn't about the employee, such as redundancy, or death. A dismissal for the employee's conduct, capacity or performance doesn't qualify, and neither does a resignation for some other reason.
The rules the calculator uses
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Years of service for a pro rata payment on leaving for a listed reason | 7 years |
| Years of service for the full entitlement | 10 years |
| Leave after 10 years | 8.6667 weeks |
| Years of service after which further leave is due | 15 years |
Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), reprint current as at 1 January 2026 Checked 15 Oct 2026.
What the result assumes
- Service is treated as one unbroken stretch with the same Queensland employer, with every day from start to end counted.
- The Industrial Relations Act 2016 sets the leave, with no award, agreement or portable long service leave scheme giving different terms, and the employee isn't a seasonal worker.
- Weeks are shown in full, before deducting any long service leave the employee has already had.
- The dollar figure multiplies those weeks by ordinary pay for normal weekly hours at the end date, without the averaging the Act calls for when hours or pay varied.
- Part years are measured in actual days of the service year, and Business Queensland rounds some published figures to fewer decimal places, so a result can differ from theirs in the last decimal place.
- The Act's remaining qualifying reasons, an unfair dismissal or the end of some contracts for a set period, depend on a legal finding and aren't offered as choices.
Sources
- Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), reprint current as at 1 January 2026
Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Reprint current as at 1 January 2026, released 22 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.
Sourced from the Queensland Legislation website (www.legislation.qld.gov.au), licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.
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