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Annual Leave Accrual Calculator
See how much annual leave you've built up from the weeks you've worked.
1. Your pay and leave
Pay for your leave (before tax)
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🧭 Your rights
- Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of paid annual leave a year (pro rata for part-time). Casuals don't, but get a 25% loading instead.
- Leave builds up from your first day, based on your ordinary hours, and carries over from year to year.
- Any unused annual leave (and leave loading, if your award says so) must be paid out when you leave.
- Check your award on the Fair Work website to see if leave loading applies.
Rules last checked: October 2026. National Employment Standards, Fair Work Act 2009. Estimate before tax. 🔒 Everything stays on your device.
✅ Rules last checked:
📚 Official sources: Fair Work Ombudsman: annual leave
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Questions people ask
How much annual leave do I get in Australia?+
4 weeks of paid annual leave a year for full-time and part-time employees (pro rata for part-time), or 5 weeks for some shift workers, under the National Employment Standards.
What is leave loading?+
An extra 17.5% on top of your base pay while on annual leave. It's not in the NES itself, but most awards and many agreements include it.
How does annual leave build up?+
Progressively from your first day, based on ordinary hours worked: about 2.92 hours a week on a 38-hour week (152 hours a year).