# US Dopers: What Holidays do you get off as a Paid Holiday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188 "2012-01-30T14:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/21 "2012-01-30T17:54:31Z")
I work in the USA for a company owned by a large Indian multinational. We get Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve off, sort of, in that there are a couple of designated floating holidays that they usually throw there. That said, I do consulting, and we’re expected to work whatever days our client works, and usually get their holidays. One thing that I find really odd: in India, our company gets Good Friday as a holiday; in the United States, we don’t. Sure, there are a lot of Christians in India, but not as a percent of population, especially compared to the USA. I liked in Europe where we got Good Friday and Easter Monday, plus a slew of other random religious holidays. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/22 "2012-01-30T17:57:11Z")
None. But I am basically salaried/ on commission, so if I don’t work, I don’t get money. Don’t get me wrong: I still take random days off, but I’m just not paid for them. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/23 "2012-01-30T19:53:55Z")
New Years Day MLK Jr Day President’s Day Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Columbus Day Veterans Day Thanksgiving Christmas I also get floating holidays for Lincoln’s Birthday and Election Day most years- I think we close in for presidential elections ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/24 "2012-01-30T20:41:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > This year I get: > January 2, 2012 New Year’s Day Monday > January 16, 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Monday > February 20, 2012 President’s Day Monday > April 6, 2012 Good Friday Friday > May 28, 2012 Memorial Day Monday > July 4, 2012 Independence Day Wednesday > September 3, 2012 Labor Day Monday > October 8, 2012 Columbus Day Monday > November 12, 2012 Veteran’s Day (Observed) Monday > November 22, 2012 Thanksgiving Day Thursday > November 23, 201 Day After Thanksgiving Friday > December 21, 2012 ½ Day – Christmas Eve Friday > December 24, 2012 Day Before Christmas Monday > December 25, 2012 Christmas Day Tuesday > December 28, 2012 1/2 Day – New Year’s Eve Friday > December 31, 2012 Day Before New Year’s Monday > > Plus, while the Christmas/New Years Days are counted as individual holidays, we actually get that whole week off paid. Holy crap. That’s literally more than twice as many days as I get (and my previous employer gave even fewer). Where do you work and are there any openings? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/25 "2012-01-30T20:45:30Z")
State of Illinois employee: New Year’s Day MLK Jr. Day Lincoln’s Birthday (We’re the Land of Lincoln. Wanna make something of it? :D) Washington’s Birthday (what everyone else calls Presidents Day) Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Columbus Day Veterans’ Day Thanksgiving Day Day Following Thanksgiving Day (seriously, that’s what it says on the official list) Christmas Day ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/26 "2012-01-30T20:50:46Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > State of Illinois employee: > New Year’s Day > MLK Jr. Day > Lincoln’s Birthday (We’re the Land of Lincoln. Wanna make something of it? :D) > Washington’s Birthday (what everyone else calls Presidents Day) > Memorial Day > Independence Day > Labor Day > Columbus Day > Veterans’ Day > Thanksgiving Day > Day Following Thanksgiving Day (seriously, that’s what it says on the official list) > Christmas Day Don’t you also get Casimir Pulaski Day off too, or is that just the city of Chicago? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/27 "2012-01-30T21:31:11Z")
Our corporate employees get just eight - New Years, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, 2 days at Thanksgiving and 2 days at Christmas. Plus one “floating” holiday of your choice. Our store employees get holiday pay, but our stores are open every day except Christmas I think. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/28 "2012-01-30T21:41:28Z")
As a state worker in Wisconsin, I get 9 paid holidays. New year’s day MLK birthday Memorial day 4th of July Labor day Thanksgiving Xmas eve Xmas NY’s eve ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/29 "2012-01-30T21:45:43Z")
I worked for a company years ago where we got “deer Monday” off. The Monday after deer season opened. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/30 "2012-01-31T10:38:24Z")
Employee of uber-mega corp (130K employees) It can vary, based on when various days fall throughout the year but usually: New Year’s eve New Year’s day Jan 2nd (sometimes) Memorial Day Independence Day (+1 add’l day) Labor Day Thanksgiving Black Friday Christmas eve Christmas The week following Christmas; (Dec 26th thru New year’s) Every 2nd Friday throughout the year. All told, it’s about 30 days off per year, not counting our 4 weeks of vacation. It’s a pretty good gig. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/31 "2012-01-31T11:12:22Z")
> [@Walkabout](#): > > We get seven standard holidays (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and Christmas Day) plus we get five “Personal Choice” holidays for a total of 12. The PC holidays are really more like extra vacation days, but they account for them as holidays. Same here. They also shift things a bit for holidays falling on weekends, its always the same total number of holidays every year, but you may have fewer PC days. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/32 "2012-01-31T11:30:19Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Before that, he got the 6 biggies - New Year’s Day, Memorial, Independence, Labor, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. This was what I got at my previous employer, but because it was a hospital lab, we couldn’t all have the day off when a holiday came around. With the number of employees we had, it came out to each of us working two holidays a year. Result: I only got 4 paid holidays per year (but got overtime for working the other two). Now I have a great new job where nobody has to work weekends or holidays, ever! Since we follow the federal schedule, I have what seems like a _billion_ days off. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/33 "2012-01-31T12:10:24Z")
> [@Bartman](#): > > I’m suddenly interested in what everyone gets off as a paid holiday. So I’m asking, what the US dopers get as paid time off? I’m including just about any likely candidate including all the official federal and state holidays that I am aware of. But I am excluding any that always fall on a weekend (Easter etc). As always feel free to use the “Other” option for any obvious mistakes I’ve made. My place of employment has no _paid_ days off whatsoever. Days off, yes. Paid days off, no. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/34 "2012-01-31T12:54:13Z")
You should have included none of the above. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/35 "2012-01-31T13:47:51Z")
New Year’s Day MLK Day Presidents Day Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Election Day (Even years only) Veterans Day Thanksgiving Day After Thanksgiving Christmas Eve Christmas New Years Eve ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/36 "2012-01-31T14:54:40Z")
I voted “Other (please specify)” because “None” was not an option. My company operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365.25 days a year. If I work on Christmas or Thanksgiving, I get time-and-a-half. If I don’t work those days, I don’t get paid. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/37 "2012-01-31T15:18:56Z")
You should have included “the week between Christmas and New Year”. (Which I hate, because it’s in the middle of proposal season and I end up working anyway - I’d rather use annual leave some other time.) ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/38 "2012-01-31T15:53:58Z")
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/39 "2012-01-31T18:44:20Z")
Good Friday and the day after Thanksgiving are “non-closing” holidays, meaning the library is open, and if we are scheduled work those day, we get credit added to our vacation bank. Also, I marked Christmas Eve, but depending upon when Christmas falls in the week, that can actually be the day after Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188/40 "2012-01-31T18:52:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Don’t you also get Casimir Pulaski Day off too, or is that just the city of Chicago? We used to, several years ago, but not anymore. The City still does, as you note. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-what-holidays-do-you-get-off-as-a-paid-holiday/611188.md?page=3)