4 weeks, plus 12 days of holiday time, including company shut-down between Christmas and New Year’s.
23 days of PTO, plus 10 vacation days.
I generally try to carry over 40 hours into Q1 since I take ski vacations. I use up as much of my vacation as possible, occasionally having an extra day at the end of the year due to my misplanning.
25 days - can use it for any reason (sick, personal, vacation). Also 6 or 8 holidays - this varies due to when the holidays fall. We can carry over up to 160 hours; the rest is lost so December tends to be very quiet as everyone tries to use up their non-roll-overable vacation.
I get three weeks, and use up almost all of it. I might roll over two or three days into the new year.
In my last job I got five weeks, and that was a lot better. But I had worked there a long time to build up enough years to get that much paid time off.
None. No paid sick days, either, but I am encouraged to not work when I’m sick so I don’t spread the ick. I get paid per client visit, and if I don’t work, I don’t get paid.
The upside is that I can have all the time off I want and still have a job when I get back. I take almost the entire month of July off every year, which I warned my boss about when he hired me and he accepted.
I get eighteen 8-hour days off. Soon to go up to twenty one days.
But in our office we work a 12 hour schedule, more or less. Normal rotation is four days on, four days off.
This means I can take a block of 4 work days off and add that to two 4-day weekends on either end. So 3 times per year I can string together twelve days off in a row.
I get 2 vacation days a month, 1 sick day per month. Vacation day max accumulation is 24 days, which I am at. I lose days all the time. Sick time does not have a limit, I’m not sure where I am at with accrued sick time, but I think I have a lot.
I started off with ten vacation days and five sick days a year.
Then they changed sick days to accumulate in one-hour increments; it ended up being the same amount every year, but they were meaner about it.
After three years that bumped up to fifteen days vacation.
Then they decided that you get twenty days off every year but no official sick time, so good luck. Everybody but me was happy about it. The flu really went around that office and I was the only one who realized it.
Then I quit.
8 Fixed Holidays
3 Floating Holidays (can use anytime but only in full day block)
30 Vacation days
6 Sick days
Only Sick days can be carried over… up to 10 per year (so max is 16 Sick per year)
I use all but carry over around 4 extra sick days per year.
I accrue 1.25 days a month, so 15 days a year, or three weeks. Plus we get the week between Christmas and New Years off paid, and all federal holidays. And if federal holidays fall on a Thursday or Tuesday, we also get that Friday or Monday off. Since the accumulation of vacation is rolling, we’re allowed to carry over some into January, but I never have the problem of using-it-or-losing-it, so I’m not sure what the policy actually is.
20 days of PTO, 2 floating holidays, six paid holidays. I’m allowed to carry over up to a week. This year I carried over the max but in previous years, I would carry over only one or two days.
Five weeks, but it takes 20 years of service to get there - I started with two weeks. A further 13 days a year of sick leave. Then 13 paid holidays ( one floating ) + one additional floating day for your birthday for a total of 14. However I work in continuous ops, so I very frequently work holidays ( but do get paid extra for doing so ). They also almost always add a non-contract “Christmas bonus” of four hours of paid leave on Christmas Eve.
My vacation use is highly erratic. Some years I burn it all, some years I don’t. You can carry up to a maximum of ten weeks on the books. My sick leave usage at least for the last 6-8 years has been typically under 4 days/year or 2 days/six months which is sort of the standard “good boy” pattern. As sick leave can be used as service extension credits at retirement, there is some incentive not to burn it all for mental health reasons.
Generally speaking, I can’t complain. Compared to most non-self-employed Americans I do very well in terms of leave time.
I get 15 PTO days and 8 holidays. I usually have an hour or two left over at the end, which do not carry.
I work for the feds so I get 20 days currently, plus 13 days of sick leave. I can have an unlimited amount of sick leave and 240 hours of leave at the end of the year. In another 2.5 years I will get 26 days of leave.
Since this is a poll, moved to IMHO (from MPSIMS).
At 18 years with my company, I was up to 120 hours paid vacation time. Three weeks, until they put us on a new mandatory 12 hour schedule effectively jacking me out of a week’s time off. :mad:
Vacation - 15 days. I can carry over a year’s worth, so up to 30 and then it’s “use it or lose it.”
Sick - 6 days. I can carry these over indefinitely, but can’t cash them out at any point. So essentially “use it or lose it.”
I use everything every year.
Fed here. Eight-hour category. I’ve banked my 240 annual hours so it’s use/lose every year.
Adds up to:
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[li] 26 days yearly.[/li][li] 10 days mandatory federal holidays.[/li][li] 104 hours annual sick leave with unlimited accrual. Whatever I do not use is added into retirement longevity. I can use annual leave in place of sick leave so I don’t disturb the sick leave accrual.[/li][li]Credit hours with a maximum carryover of 24 hours per pay period.[/li][/ul]
By carefully managing all of the above I can (within reason) have unlimited leave year by year.
(And if people think that’s cocky, the President and/or Congress has suspended any COLAs for the past three years with further COLA suspensions expected up to another five years. My last private employment comparison calculator says I would require a 219 percent base pay increase just to be paid what the job equivalent is in private industry.)
None currently. When I was with IBM, I got two weeks of vacation my first year. They had a hard-and-fast rule that everybody had to use up all their vacation, as they felt they would be subject to some sort of class-action suit if they overworked people. They also said I couldn’t take any vacation until I had trained somebody to do all the work I had just learned to do. They also refused to provide anyone for me to train.
So, no vacation then, either, and my boss got in a shit load of trouble.
I’m capped out from seniority, plus I have my benefits grandfathered in from my company’s old (and more generous) system, so I have 9 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 3 personal days, and 8 sick days. Actually, we switched to PTO this year, so I guess I have 31 days of PTO per year now. I expect the new system will be better in that I’ll take more days off (I have never taken more than 2 sick days in a year, while there were quite a few people who would make sure they were sick exactly as many days as they had available every year), but worse in that more people will be coming in to work sick to save that PTO to take more vacation days. Oh well, whatever, I still have it pretty darn good.