Teacher. Ten paid sick leave/personal days per year, and they do roll over. A ton of unpaid time in the summer/around Christmas, spring break, etc.
It’s widely believed that this is paid time off, but it really isn’t: our salary is broken up into 12 even checks, but our contract is for the 183 days we actually work. This really matters if you have to take unpaid leave because, say, you had a baby (no maternity coverage). Since you are paid for 183 days, you are docked 1/183 of your annual, not the 1/250 that most unpaid leave is billed at. So if you miss six weeks for a medical emergency, you may well not get a check at all for two full months–or longer, since you have to pay off your premiums.
Four weeks a year. Because I work a rotating roster, I could get six weeks but I can’t manage to take the leave I’ve got (572 hours accrued as of this week), I elected to accrue only four weeks a year and I get paid double time and a half for public holidays (ten per year).
I get 76 hours a year sick leave and it also rolls over - >400 hours available to me if I need it.
I get 21 days (four work weeks plus a personal day) and most federal holidays. I work at a university, and while I do work during the summer, spring break, etc., the university is closed from Christmas through New Year’s so I get off then and it doesn’t count towards my vacation time.
My vacation time doesn’t carry over, so I try to use it all. However, in past years I’ve often wound up losing anywhere from half a day to two days of vacation time. Vacation time goes off the calendar year and not the academic year, so sometimes I haven’t taken enough time off when things are slow in the summer and then been too busy during the fall semester to finish using all my time.
I get twelve days of PTO and ten sick days, and none of it rolls over. I use all of the PTO but only a day or two of the sick days. Hopefully, I won’t need to use any more than that any time soon.
Well, I’m retired. I did take a part-time gig in the same field but no bennys. It’s only 2 shifts a week (2 days on, 7 days off).
My last year on before retirement I got 6 weeks a year vacation. That was after 25 years of service and 6 weeks was the maximum anyone could ever get. Before hitting the 25 year mark I was at 5 weeks. We could take it in 8 hour increments. I have been told that the current contract calls for half of vacation time to be taken in 5 day increments. Sucks for them.
A friend of mine, who is a socialist was talking recently about how employers, because of how capitalism works, must exploit their employees. Someone said, “What about business owners?” He explained that their position is even worse, in order to exploit their employees, if they work in the business, they have to exploit themselves. As soon as he said it I realised he is right, everyone I know that owns and works in a business is the hardest woking person doing the longest hours there.
About 7 weeks. 1 week can be carried over to be used within the first 6 months of the next year, another week can be banked into sabbatical to use whenever. The rest I make sure to use up.
I’ve got 18 weeks of sick time accrued so far, it never goes away if not used. Unused sick time can be converted into cash payments for health insurance after retirement.
I know I have a good deal, but I think I earn it. My job is extremely stressful in and of itself, and it’s performed in a very stressful environment. And it pays less than it would in the private sector.
I’ve never worked a job with PTO. All the teaching I’ve done has been hourly. At least with my new job I get vacation time when the kids do.
My SO gets paid vacations at the same time as his students.
ETA: I just remembered - a few years back the private academy I worked for got caught up in a swine flu scandal and had to take an entire week off. All our branches shut down. That was the only week of PTO I’ve ever had in my life!
None as a teacher. You are paid for 180 days and you teach 180 days. If there is a snow day you don’t go in, but it will just add another day to the end of the year.
6 weeks, which will go to 7 when I hit my 9th anniversary next year. I really need to use some up because I have about 450 hours banked and we cap at 500.
3 weeks accumulating vacation. 2 weeks set holidays (including most of the week of x-mas). Unlimited sick days! But I think since this is on an honor system my company must think that it will lead to fewer sick days being used than if I accumulated 2 set weeks a year and had them staring at me asking for an excuse to use them.
22 days, plus a week at either Christmas or New Year’s, plus 10 days for Continuing Medical Education that are more or less vacation as long as I get the CME credits I need. Sick leave is separate and has no hard limits.
3 weeks a year, or approximately 2.307 hours per week, at the moment.
As a federal contractor I earn roughly the same rate as federal workers, but my accrual cap is higher (320 hours opposed to 240). My rate will eventually top out at 4.8 weeks (192 hours) a year, but that’ll take another 11 years (15 total).
I try not to use any, as I want to hit that cap. Not for any particular occasion, I’d just like to have the knowledge that I could take off 2 solid months any time I want. I’ve got a good 209 hours left to earn before I get there if I don’t use any, and that will take 1.75 years. Fortunately my boss’ take on leave is that sick leave and annual leave are the basically the same difference to her, so unless I need to take off more than 4 consecutive days I just use sick leave, which is pretty awesome.
3 weeks paid vacation. Until about a month ago, one of the cost cutting measures was to take our paid holidays away, which effectively meant, you had to take a vacation day, or work an extra 8 hours. Lot’s of people quit over that one, and they recently gave us our 6 holidays back. Our 5 sick days have not returned. Meaning, go to work while you’re sick and infect everyone.
I get a little over 5 weeks per year, as I’ve been with my company for over 14 years now. I don’t ever take it all, but I generally take at least 2 full weeks off, and a number of single days here and there. We do have a biennial PTO sellback period, one of which is in late October, so I sometimes cash some of it in to pay for for holiday expenses if I have ‘too much’ saved up.
I believe we can accrue of to 400 hours; at that point management pretty much forces people to start taking days off.
About 25 days a year. There is no set amount of sick leave. There is a sick time policy, but in my area no one ever follows it, since most people who stay home sick are on their computers working anyway. And I only seem to get sick on weekends.
Most people take vacation in big clumps. A lot save it to go back home to China or India. I took off between Christmas and New Years. I’m not sure how much I have left, but a good bit.
When we got acquired our accumulated vacation was reset to 0 and we got paid for what we had - and it was a very nice sum.