Here (Canada) three weeks is fairly typical, with long-term employees getting 4 weeks.
That plus, lets see:
January - New Year’s Day
April - Easter Friday
May - Victoria Day
July - Canada Day
August - Civic Holiday
September - Labour Day
October - Thanksgiving
December - Christmas and Boxing Day
So, I get 24 days off per year.
How does that compare to you other global carbon units?
As a US federal employee with over 15 years’ service, I get 26 days’ of annual leave per year which I can take in 15 min increments, plus 10 (I think) holidays. I can carry over 240 hours (I think. Maybe a couple more or less) of annual leave before needing to use it or lose it.
I get 26 days’ leave, plus 6 extra days in lieu of the bank holidays (that’s what national holidays are called in the UK) when I have to work. That makes 32 days, which makes 8 weeks’ holiday as I only work four days a week. 
15 days of vacation time in 1 hour increments, plus 10 days of personal/sick in 1 hour increments, plus (I think) 11 holidays, as negotiated by the union (I’m not union, but we get the same holidays of course). The vacation time progresses from 1 week for new hires up to (I think) 6 weeks for the ancient folks. Plus jury duty pay (not a day off exactly, I know), and pretty good maternity/paternity policies.
US private sector employee. Once I reached 5 years employment, I started getting 3 weeks vacation time annually. If I make it to 10 years, I’ll be up to 4 weeks of vacation. That seems pretty middle of the road from what I’ve heard. Anything under a half day off usually isn’t charged against my vacation time. You’re expected to make sure that all the work gets done before or afterwards.
7 days of paid holiday annually (New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, 2 days for Thanksgiving, Christmas Day). In addition, I get 2 floating holidays, that I can take when I want.
Do you really want to know?
(Remember, I’m a teacher.) 
My current contract, Swiss, indicates 20 vacation days per year. That’s on top of “any day when the client is closed.”
In Spain it’s usually mentioned as “four weeks” but in most companies it’s 20 days, plus any holidays; if the company closes down at a time that’s not a holiday, most workers have to take those days as vacation (this is indicated in the contract). Since the majority of contracts do not indicate “vacation days” but “yearly worked hours,” people on long shifts get more days off - but the same amount of worked time. On those years when I was working a 12-hr weekend shift, my normal week was 2x12 on the weekend and one 8-hr during the week. The count on “how many days off do people really get” can change a lot depending on who you ask; some people count Easter Sunday (because it’s part of Easter Vacation) but others don’t (it’s a Sunday, you’d get it off anyway).
-15 vacation days per year which I can save up to a total of 60 before I have to “use it or lose it”.
-24 hours of personal time in 1/2 hour increments.
-Not sure how many sick days, maybe 30/year?
-January 1
-Memorial Day
-July 4
-Labor day
-Turkey Day & Nosh Day
-X-Day
Huh…that’s more than a month a year. Suprised anything gets done around here at all.
Just to expand on this:
Yes, 10 holidays and 240 Use or Lose.
We also accrue 4 hrs Sick Leave every pay period (4hrs x 26 pp a year, or 13 days), with no limit on how much we can bank. But, we don’t get personal days or anything like that, so we have to use AL or SL anytime we are not here. Also we get no long term disability, so we bank our SL as a form of insurance in case we ever have a long illness. When we retire, we are not compensated for any SL we have not used.
I get two weeks a year and the holidays mentioned in the OP.
US private sector - scientific/technical:
Vacation and sick time are bundled together as PTO (paid time off).
[ul][li]9 paid holidays during the year.[/li][li]19 days/year of PTO for the first three years with the company; increases to 25 days/year after that.[/li][li]I’m not sure if there’s a limit to how much PTO one can accrue. I know it’s possible to “cash out” some if you’ve got a giant load stored up.[/li][li]We begin accruing PTO from the moment we start work. 6.34 hours per semimonthly pay period for newer employees is what appears on my pay stubs. I sometimes laugh when I think that PTO is being accounted for in 36 second increments.[/li]Our company will let you “go negative” on PTO for up to four days’ worth. If you leave the company before working it back to zero, your final paycheck will be correspondingly reduced. Usually, only very new employees need to take advantage of this.[/ul]
U.S. Private Sector IT professional.
Sick/Vacation time is bundled as PTO. It accrues at the following rate:
0 Years to <5 Years: 17 days
5 Years to <10 Years: 22 days
10 + Years: 27 days
I think we can take it in 4 hour increments. We can roll over up to 5 days to the next year. Anything over 5 gets cashed out at 1/2 the dollar value.
I just had my 1 year at this job, so I don’t know the holiday history. We get 8 for 2007. According to my coworkers, that is usually what it is.
These are our 2007 Holidays:
Monday, January 1st - New Years Day
Monday, May 28th - Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4th - Independence Day
Monday, September 3rd - Labor Day
Thursday, November 22nd - Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 23rd - Thanksgiving Day extended
Monday, December 24th - Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 25th - Christmas Day
This question seems better served in IMHO, IMHO :). But anyway…
Municipal government, ~16.5 years experience.
Currently 23 vacation days, taken in down to 1/2 hour increments, accummulable to 50 days, any excess at end of calender year paid out. Increasing to and maxing out at 25 days by my 19th year of employment.
Two floating holidays a year, use or lose. 13 fixed holidays, can receive compensatory time for them if scheduled to work, if so I think they are currently use or lose by end of year ( this has a tendency to change a little with each new contract ). Non-contract traditional four hours of Christmas bonus leave - typically compensatory up to four months.
13 paid sick days a year, accumulable to 130 days. Excess and unused time at time of retirement doubled and added as service extension credit for the purpose of determining pensions.
Private sector telecommunications company.
Since I have been here 10 years I get 5 weeks of vacation.
Plus the standard 11 holidays during the year.
* New Year’s Day
* President’s Day
* Memorial Day
* Independence Day
* Labor Day
* Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday
* Christmas Day
* Two additional holidays designated annually by the Company in conjunction with the above holidays.
* One employee designated holiday to be used within the calendar year, with prior approval from the manager.I get six weeks off (Paid Time Off = PTO).
It’s sick, personal or vacation time, all rolled into “PTO”. I am also a salaried associate (senior mgmnt), so I get paid a full day whether it’s 10 minutes or 24 hours of work and travel.
I get something like six holidays (Christmas, New Year’s Day, etc).
I can also ‘work from home’ or enjoy ‘comp days’, which are just BS ways of making life easier after big projects are completed or the family forgets who I am.
Normally 25 plus statutory holidays but this year I get 32 (plus statutory) as I carried some over from last year.
I think 11 holdays plus 17.33 hours of time off accrued per month or 26 days per year. Health insurance sales, I’ve been here 2 years.
And to expand on this, my Squadron has very little liquidity in the budget, so for our performance evaluations, we usually get time off awards as oppposed to monetary awards. This year it was 40 hours.
ETA: and an extra “p” per post.
Sigh.
Me too, but it’s not nearly as wonderful as everyone thinks. It’s very good, but not fantastic. I get 10 sick days/year, but it’s nearly impossible to call in sick the morning of work. And our district also doesn’t usually take off for things like Columbus Day, Veterans’ Day, or Presidents’ Day. We do get Memorial Day most years. And a very nice ~8 days off at Christmas, which in my opinion is almost as good as summer. For summer, after I’ve worked all the days after school lets out and the days before school starts and extra events and whatevers that are my “Contractual Obligations” I usually get about a 7 week vacation. Which, yes, is better than pretty much any other job, but not the mythological three months off that my parents seem to think it is. 
:eek: That’s no vacation!
U.S., 10 years employed
20 days of leave,
10 days of sick and personal,
plus standard holidays