For an explicit formula for the size of the conjugacy classes of GL$(n,q)$ (going back to Frobenius and Philip Hall), see equation (1.107) on page 92 of http://math.mit.edu/~rstan/ec/ch1.pdf. (There are formulas for the quantities appearing in (1.107) earlier in the text.)
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