Method and sources
Every rule comes from legislation or official guidance, linked below.
Method
- NSW long service leave
- Matches NSW Industrial Relations’ Long Service Leave Accrual Calculator. Years are the actual days from start to end date (the end date isn’t counted), less days that don’t count, over the actual year length. They are rounded to 2 decimals, then multiplied by 13/15 and rounded again. The 5 and 10-year tests add 60 or 120 calendar months to the start date.
- VIC long service leave
- As in vic.gov.au’s examples: completed years × 52, plus whole weeks since the last anniversary (end day counted). Leave is weeks ÷ 60, rounded to 2 decimals, then multiplied by weekly pay. Payable from 364 weeks (7 years).
- Other states and territories
- Each follows its regulator’s published method. QLD: Business Queensland’s years, months, weeks and days tables. WA: the WA Government calculator (completed years plus part years from 7 to 10 years). SA and NT: completed years only. TAS: WorkSafe Tasmania’s years including part years × 0.8667. ACT: WorkSafe ACT’s 1/5 month a year, with completed months for pro rata between 5 and 7 years.
- Redundancy and notice
- The Fair Work Act sets thresholds in years (“at least 1 year”, “more than 1 year”) without a day-count method. We count calendar anniversaries up to the end of your last day, or the end of the day notice is given. Unpaid leave doesn’t count for redundancy pay but does count for notice (s 22).
- Annual leave
- Weekly ordinary hours × 4 weeks (5 for shiftworkers) × days of service ÷ 365, counting both the start and end day. Unpaid leave days are excluded. For seven selected awards, the award’s weeks, shiftworker definition and 17.5% loading rule apply, including the higher-of comparison with penalties where the clause says so, made over the whole period of leave.
- Tax
- A withholding estimate using ATO Schedules 7 and 11, rounded to the nearest dollar as they require. It isn’t your final tax.
Scope
- Long service leave for every state and territory under its main Act. Mining employees in Tasmania, seasonal employees in Queensland, and portable long service leave schemes (construction, cleaning, community services, security, coal mining) aren’t covered.
- Annual leave, redundancy and notice use the National Employment Standards minimums for national system employees.
- Annual leave loading for seven selected awards: General Retail, Hospitality (General), Clerks—Private Sector, Fast Food, SCHADS, Nurses, and Health Professionals and Support Services. Other awards, enterprise agreements and contracts can differ. Award-specific redundancy and notice rules are not covered.
- Not covered yet: board, lodging and bonus amounts in ordinary pay; commission and piecework pay averaging; Victorian pay when the ordinary rate isn’t fixed (s 15(2)); pre-1993 leave tax; tax on normal pay at marginal rates; death benefit ETPs; super.
Sources
WA long service leave
- Long Service Leave Act 1958 (WA), ss 7–8Checked
- WA Government, WA long service leave calculatorChecked
- WA Government, Long service leave when employment endsChecked
- WA Government, What is continuous employmentChecked
- WA Government, Coverage of the Long Service Leave ActChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Long service leaveChecked
Annual leave
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Annual leaveChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Payment for annual leaveChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Final payChecked
- Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), ss 86–87, 90Checked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Calculating annual leave loadingChecked
- General Retail Industry Award 2020 (MA000004), cl 28Checked
- Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2020 (MA000009), cl 30Checked
- Clerks—Private Sector Award 2020 (MA000002), cl 32Checked
- Fast Food Industry Award 2020 (MA000003), cl 22Checked
- Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (MA000100), cl 31Checked
- Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034), cl 22Checked
- Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027), cl 27Checked
Redundancy pay
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Redundancy payChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Who doesn’t get redundancy payChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Dismissal and noticeChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Who doesn’t get noticeChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Notice and Redundancy CalculatorChecked
- Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), ss 22–23, 117, 119–123Checked
Final pay & tax
- ATO, Employment termination payments: caps and limitsChecked
- ATO, Schedule 11: tax table for ETPs (from 1 July 2026)Checked
- ATO, Schedule 7: unused leave on termination (from 1 July 2026)Checked
- ATO, Genuine redundancy paymentsChecked
- ATO, How ETP components are taxedChecked
- Fair Work Ombudsman, Final payChecked
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Disclaimer
Estimates only, based on the minimum rules in the sources above. Your award, enterprise agreement or contract may give you more. Not legal, tax or financial advice. LeaveCalc is independent and not affiliated with any government agency.