How much paid vacation time do you get each year, and do you try to use as much of it as possible?
Four weeks (starting this year, used to be 3) and it’s use it or lose it, so I use it.
5 weeks (25 days) of PTO - Paid Time Off. To be used for any reason, including illness. Since I have a separate bank of sick hours I can use for sick time (long story), I can use those 25 days strictly as vacation time. I use them all.
20 days (4 weeks). I don’t lose it. I’ve currently got 65 days built up.
I’ve been with the same company for 13 years. I started with 2 weeks for the first 10 years. At 10 years I would have gotten 3 weeks, but also got a promotion that bumped me to 4 weeks.
I also get 3 sick days a year that also carry over.
None. I’m a temp. It sucks.
Back when I DID have vacation time, it was two weeks and yes, I absolutely DID use it - mainly though it was used to stay home with a sick kid, or if there were car problems or something. I never really got to go “on vacation”.
My boss at the time had a TON of vacation time saved up then the company changed their policy to use it or lose it - he would have had to take almost six months of vacation to use it all up. Poor guy - that kinda hurt when he lost it.
25 days, 10 granted up front (sick days), 15 accrued (vacation days). I use 'em all every year.
120 hours of paid vacation, plus 120 hours sick time, both of which roll over.
I don’t like my vacation to go below 40 hours, but apart from that I use it.
In May I’ll be here for 10 years, so I get 144 hours a year instead if I’m still around.
As a Fed, I earn 8 hours of leave per pay period, or every two weeks. I also earn 4 hours of sick leave. I can carry over 240 hours of annual leave , and I’m not sure how much Sick leave I can carry over.
It’s not a problem, because I use my leave. I never have a use or loose situation. And with the birth of Jr. Lebeef this year, my sick leave has been pretty well wiped out.
3 weeks, somewhat flexible use it or lose policy. I always use it. As a matter of fact I’m a week ahead of my earned vacation time. It’s a good company to work for.
The most my company allows is 40 hours of paid vacation/sick leave(no insurance). I normally work a 8 hour day, so that’s five days for me, but the poor schmucks that work 12 hour shifts get only 3 1/3 days off each year.
I get 3 weeks paid vacation a year, plus 2 personal days, and about 10 sick days. I have to use the personal days, but I can carry over the vacation and sick days. I usually use 2 of my 3 weeks and carry over one.
I get 35 days. But that covers everything from vacations, to sick days, to holidays. If I’ve used up all 35 days by December 24th, I’m working on Christmas.
I get 4 weeks paid (starting this year), and we can carry over one week, so this year I have 5 weeks of paid vacation.
I doubt I will use even two weeks of it.
I’m a temp now, so if I don’t work, I don’t get paid. If I stay on for a year, by law, I become permanent, and I’ll negotiate vacation - I figure at least 3 weeks, considering how little I’m paid.
As a senior gummint engineer, I got 26 days of vacation a year plus sick leave and holiday leave. Towards the last few years, I hoarded my leave so I had use-or-lose on the books that they had to pay me for. Up until then, I rarely carried over more than a day or two from year to year (we could accumulate up to 30 days.)
I see no virtue in foregoing vacation. Getting away from work for a while is necessary.
6 weeks a year plus 10 public holidays. I can accumulate, or use individually, anothet 24 days in 6 day blocks each 3 months due to flexible work hours So I was off from December 21 to January 8 without taking any leave.
5 days of PTO, which our owner describes as “generous” because we get six federal holidays off, too.
I only get Federal holidays off if they fall on a weekend. If they fall on a weekday I have to work, but I get time and a half. Not too many weekend holidays in 2013, dammit.
Our official policy is “take what you need, within reason, and don’t fuck it up for everyone else.”
Works pretty well so far.
I get 25 days paid, and buy an additional 5 days in return for a 2% cut in salary, and I use them all. This includes sick time. I had not been sick in years but just got destroyed by this year’s flu bug and had to burn 3 of my days. 
30 days. In addition, I can carry over five days from one year to the next, which I have always done. So I have 35 days (technically, 280 hours) of PTO.
What I have left toward the end of the year [35 - (#days taken + #days I plan to take + 5 carryover days)], I take off a day hear and there in November and December.