US Dopers: What Holidays do you get off as a Paid Holiday?

In My Humble Opinion
21

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.

22

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.

23

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

24

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? :smiley:

25

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

26

Don’t you also get Casimir Pulaski Day off too, or is that just the city of Chicago?

27

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.

28

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

29

I worked for a company years ago where we got “deer Monday” off. The Monday after deer season opened.

30

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.

31

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.

32

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.

33

My place of employment has no paid days off whatsoever. Days off, yes. Paid days off, no.

34

You should have included none of the above.

35

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

36

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.

37

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.)

38

Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. That’s it.

39

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.

40

We used to, several years ago, but not anymore. The City still does, as you note.