WA long service leave calculator
Check how much long service leave a Western Australian employee has, from the date they started and the date they finished or the date you're checking, and what it's worth.
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- Sources checked 15 Oct 2026
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Long service leave
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How it works
Western Australia's Act builds long service leave in blocks. Completing the full entitlement period in the table below earns an initial block, and each further period of service shown there earns another. While the employee is still working, the calculator counts only the blocks they've completed.
When employment ends at or after the full entitlement period, the employee is paid for each completed year of service, and a part year at the end isn't counted. A dismissal for serious misconduct, if this describes what happened, is the exception: then only the completed blocks are paid, not the years since the last of them.
Between the minimum and full entitlement periods, WA pays a proportion on leaving for every reason except a dismissal for serious misconduct, so a plain resignation qualifies too. That proportion counts part years as well as whole ones.
The rules the calculator uses
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Years of service for a pro rata payment on leaving | 7 years |
| Years of service for the full entitlement | 10 years |
| Leave after 10 years | 8 2/3 weeks |
| Leave for each further 5 years | 4 1/3 weeks |
Parliamentary Counsel's Office, Western Australia, Long Service Leave Act 1958 (WA), version 04-m0-00 Checked 15 Oct 2026.
What the result assumes
- The employee is taken to have worked for a single employer, without a break, and only in Western Australia.
- All days in the employment period are counted as service, so periods that may not count under the Act, such as unpaid leave or stand downs, aren't removed.
- The WA Act is the only source of the entitlement here: an award, agreement or portable scheme with terms of its own would change the result.
- Leave already used isn't subtracted, so the weeks shown are the total built up before any leave was had.
- Pay means the ordinary weekly rate for normal hours at the end date; varying hours or pay call for averaging, which isn't offered.
- Part years in a proportion are counted in actual days of the service year, and published examples that count them another way can differ in the last decimal place.
Sources
- Long Service Leave Act 1958 (WA), version 04-m0-00
Parliamentary Counsel's Office, Western Australia. Version 04-m0-00, as at 31 January 2025, released 30 January 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.
Sourced from the Western Australian Legislation website (www.legislation.wa.gov.au), licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.
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Questions about this calculator
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Does a resignation before the full entitlement period pay anything in WA?
What's paid after a dismissal for serious misconduct in WA?
Why isn't the last part year paid when someone leaves after the full entitlement period?
Can an employee take leave for the years since their last block?
General information