Long Service Leave Calculator VIC (Victoria)6.07 weeks after 7 years under the Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic)

How Much Long Service Leave You Get in Victoria

Victoria's Long Service Leave Act 2018 is enforced by Workforce Inspectorate Victoria, which was called Wage Inspectorate Victoria until 12 December 2025. It counts leave as one week for every 60 weeks of continuous employment — about 0.866 of a week a year — and breaches are criminal: failing to pay the balance on the last day of employment is an offence under section 9(2).

The Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic) accrues 0.8667 weeks for every year with one employer. At 7 years you can take 6.0667 weeks; after that, continuous accrual at one week for every 60 weeks of employment — no further waiting period. Part years count, down to the day.

Accrued is what is paid out when the job ends and a pro-rata entitlement exists; a dash means the 7-year qualifying period has not been reached.

Pro-Rata Long Service Leave in Victoria

From 7 years the accrued balance is paid however the job ends. The Act names no exception: the unused balance is due in full on the last day of employment.

How Victorian Long Service Leave Pay Is Worked Out

Ordinary pay is the actual pay for your normal weekly hours when the leave starts or the job ends, plus the cash value of any board or lodging. Most allowances, penalty rates and overtime are left out, but a casual's ordinary rate includes the casual loading, and non-discretionary commissions and regular bonuses written into the contract can count.

Two averaging rules protect anyone whose work changed. If your hours changed in the last 104 weeks, they are averaged over the last 52 weeks, the last 260 weeks or the whole period of employment, whichever is highest. If your pay rate moves week to week, it is averaged over the last 12 months, five years or whole period, whichever is greater.

Business Victoria's worked example: Lissa resigns after 11 years on $1,100 a week. 11 × 52 = 572 weeks, ÷ 60 = 9.53 weeks, which it prints as 9.5 weeks and $10,450.

Taking Long Service Leave in Victoria

You can ask to take leave at any time after 7 years. By agreement it can be taken in periods of at least one day, taken in advance of 7 years, or taken as twice the period at half pay.

An employer can direct you to take leave by giving at least 12 weeks' written notice. If you do not want to take it then, you can apply to the Industrial Division of the Magistrates' Court.

Casual, Part-Time and Continuous Service in Victoria

Full-time, part-time, casual, seasonal and fixed-term employees are all covered where the employment has been continuous. For casuals and seasonal workers, an absence of more than 12 weeks between engagements can break continuity unless one of the Act's exceptions applies.

Paid and unpaid parental leave never breaks continuous employment. Unpaid leave of up to 52 weeks counts towards accrual; longer unpaid leave counts only if the contract or instrument provides for it, it is agreed in writing beforehand, or it is for illness or injury.

A new owner who keeps you on inherits your whole period of service, and Business Victoria warns that failing to recognise it is an offence.

Cashing Out Long Service Leave in Victoria

Long service leave cannot be cashed out in Victoria. It is an offence under the Act to give or receive payment instead of the employee actually taking the break from work.

Portable Long Service Schemes in Victoria

Building and construction workers are outside the 2018 Act altogether: their entitlement comes from the Construction Industry Long Service Leave Act 1997 through LeavePlus (formerly CoINVEST). Community services, contract cleaning and security workers carry their service from job to job under the Long Service Benefits Portability Act 2018.

• LeavePlus (formerly CoINVEST) — building and construction workers
• Portable Long Service Benefits Authority — community services, contract cleaning and security workers, under the Long Service Benefits Portability Act 2018

Also outside the VIC Act

• employees under a federal award or workplace agreement that contains its own long service leave provisions
• building and construction employees, whose entitlement comes from the LeavePlus (formerly CoINVEST) scheme

Tax, and How VIC Compares

Tax on a payout is federal, so it is the same in Victoria as everywhere: the ATO unused-leave schedule is set out on the hub. A 7-year VIC entitlement of 6.07 weeks at $1,600 a week is $9,707 gross — see take-home pay on $95,000 for the year it lands in. For the other seven Acts side by side, see long service leave in every state.

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