TAS Long Service Leave.
Calculate long service leave entitlement under your state Act. Covers all 8 states & territories with state-specific triggers, accrual rates and pro-rata rules. Pre-configured for Tasmania under State LSL Acts.
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| Component | Formula | Value |
|---|---|---|
| State | - | TAS |
| Trigger | - | 10 years |
| Pro-rata from | - | 7 years |
| Years of service | (2026-09-24 − 2025-09-24) | 1.00 yrs |
| LSL weeks | state formula | 0.00 wks |
| Hours of LSL | 0.00 × 38h | 0 hrs |
| LSL value | 0 × $35.00 | $0.00 |
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How long service leave works in Tasmania
Tasmania grants long service leave under the Long Service Leave Act 1976. The full entitlement is 8 and 2/3 weeks after 10 years of continuous employment, with a further 4 and 1/3 weeks after each additional 5 years.
The full entitlement is 8 and 2/3 weeks at 10 years, plus 4 and 1/3 weeks after each further 5 years. Long service leave sits outside the National Employment Standards, so this is set by Tasmania law rather than federal law, and the figures differ from every other state. Compare all eight in our guide to long service leave after 10 years.
Leaving before 10 years: pro-rata in TAS
Pro-rata long service leave becomes possible at 7 years of continuous service in Tasmania. That threshold is necessary, but in this state it is not sufficient.
This is the single most misunderstood part of long service leave, and it is where people lose the most money. The threshold is what gets quoted in conversation; the condition is what decides whether anything is actually paid. Our pro-rata long service leave guide sets out the rule for all eight states and territories side by side.
What counts as continuous service
Continuity survives paid leave, authorised unpaid leave and periods of illness. It also survives a transfer of business. It does not survive a genuine resignation followed by a later rehire, which starts the clock again however familiar the work.
Tasmania long service leave law covers casual employees, as the law in every state and territory does. What differs between them is the test for whether casual service counts as continuous, which our guide to casual long service leave rules by state sets out for all eight.
How the payment is calculated
Payment is at your ordinary rate at the time the leave is taken, excluding overtime. Where hours vary, Tasmania averages over the preceding 12 months.
How the payout is taxed
The entitlement is set by Tasmania law, but the tax on it is federal and works differently to almost every other payment. The ATO splits a long service leave payout by when the service was performed, not just why you left, and taxes each slice under the rules that applied at the time. Service from 18 August 1993 is taxed at your marginal rate on an ordinary resignation, or capped at 30% plus the Medicare levy on a genuine redundancy. Earlier service is treated more favourably again.
This is why a flat 32% estimate is usually wrong: that figure is a ceiling plus the Medicare levy, not a fixed rate, so anyone below the 30% bracket pays less. Work out the split on your own payout with the long service leave tax calculator.
A TAS worked example
Ben, 10 years with one employer, a Hobart hospitality supervisor, on $1,480 a week.
Tasmania grants 8.67 weeks at 10 years under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 (TAS). The payment is 8.67 x $1,480 = $12,831.60 gross, whether taken as paid leave or paid out on termination.
Taken as leave it is taxed as ordinary income in the period it is paid. Paid out on termination the withholding rules differ, and for a redundancy they differ again: see how leave payouts are taxed and genuine redundancy and tax.
Does other leave keep accruing while you are on it?
Yes. Long service leave is paid leave, and paid leave counts as service in every Australian jurisdiction. That means annual leave and personal leave continue to accrue for the whole time you are away, and the period also counts towards your next long service leave milestone. A worker taking 8.67 weeks in TAS comes back with roughly a week of extra annual leave already banked.
A public holiday falling inside a period of long service leave is treated the same way it is inside annual leave: you are not taken to be on leave that day, so it does not come out of your balance. The TAS dates are listed on TAS public holidays. If you fall ill during long service leave, most states let you convert the affected days to personal leave with evidence, which preserves the long service balance.
Long service leave in your final pay
When employment ends, any long service leave you are entitled to is paid as part of your final pay rather than separately. It sits alongside unused annual leave, outstanding wages, and notice or redundancy where they apply. Work the whole amount out on the final pay calculator, or see termination pay for how the components fit together.
Two things change the number. Superannuation is generally not payable on a long service leave payout, because the ATO does not treat it as ordinary time earnings, and the withholding rate depends on why the employment ended. A payout tied to a genuine redundancy is taxed concessionally, while an ordinary resignation is taxed at your marginal rate. Neither changes the gross figure the calculator produces above; both change what lands in your account.
The TAS catch worth knowing
Tasmania still expresses the retirement-age condition using different ages for women and men, 60 and 65, a drafting relic that remains in the Act. If you are approaching either age and considering resigning, the difference between resigning before and after that birthday can be the entire pro-rata payment.
Tasmania still defines retirement age differently for men and women
Section 8(3)(a) of the Long Service Leave Act 1976 treats retirement age as 60 for a woman and 65 for a man, unless a different age is fixed by an award or your contract. Reaching that age is a qualifying reason for a pro-rata payment between 5 and 10 years of service, so it can convert a resignation that would otherwise pay nothing into a payable one. The gendered distinction is an artefact of a 1976 statute rather than anything modern, but it is still the operative text, and for a woman between 60 and 65 in Tasmania it is worth checking before resigning. No other Australian jurisdiction sets the long service leave retirement trigger by sex. If you are near either birthday and thinking about leaving, the date you resign can decide whether the pro-rata is paid at all.
Long Service Leave Act 1976 (Tas) s.8(3)(a). Verified 11 August 2026.
Tasmania expressly permits a written cash-out agreement
Tasmania is one of the jurisdictions where the Act itself provides the mechanism, rather than leaving the parties without one. Under section 10 an employee may elect to receive a payment instead of taking long service leave, by written agreement with the employer, and the agreement should record the specific period the payment covers and the amount. Because the power comes from the statute, a properly documented Tasmanian cash-out is on much firmer ground than an informal arrangement in a state whose Act is silent. The contrast across the country is stark for what is nominally the same entitlement: Tasmania and South Australia provide for it, Western Australia allows it once fully accrued, the Northern Territory prohibits it by default, and in Victoria giving or receiving the payment is an offence.
Long Service Leave Act 1976 (Tas) s.10. Verified 11 August 2026.
Tasmania pays at your current ordinary rate, with 12-month averaging
Long service leave in Tasmania is paid at your ordinary rate at the time you take the leave, and where your hours have varied the ordinary hours over the preceding 12 months are averaged. The short window cuts both ways. A recent increase in hours lifts the payment quickly, and a recent reduction lowers it just as fast, which is the opposite of the protection South Australia builds in by averaging over 156 weeks. If you have gone from full-time to part-time and are approaching a long service leave entitlement in Tasmania, the timing of when you take or are paid the leave is worth thinking about, because the last 12 months of hours are doing most of the work in the calculation.
WorkSafe Tasmania, long service leave. Verified 11 August 2026.
Construction workers: your service may be portable
If you work in building and construction, the continuous-service rule above may not be the one that applies to you. Tasmania runs a portable long service leave scheme where service accrues with the industry rather than a single employer, so moving between builders does not reset the clock. See portable long service leave. You cannot be paid twice for the same period of service.
Where to check your own entitlement
Tasmania long service leave is administered by WorkSafe Tasmania, which is the authority of record for disputes and for any figure you intend to rely on. The calculator above estimates your balance under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 (TAS); where a number decides whether you resign or wait, confirm it with the authority or the Fair Work Ombudsman first.
Other TAS entitlements
Tasmania gazettes 9 public holidays in 2026, listed with penalty rates on TAS public holidays. Construction, contract cleaning and security workers may instead accrue under a portable scheme that follows them between employers, explained in portable long service leave. Australian long service leave is state law, so the same career pays out very differently depending on where it was worked. The two ends of the range are Victoria, which pays an unconditional entitlement from 7 years, the earliest in the country, and South Australia, whose 13 weeks at 10 years is the largest statutory entitlement anywhere in Australia. Tasmania sits at 8.67 weeks after 10 years. Every federal entitlement, including annual leave and personal leave, is identical in Tasmania and is calculated on the annual leave calculator and the personal leave calculator. For everything owed when a job ends, use final pay. More TAS entitlements are collected on the Tasmania hub.