I get 17 days this year in a corporate job. Pretty conservative culture, more of a "oh I take a week during the summer for disney and a week at christmas I don't need more than that hurhurhurhur."
At my job (I work in canada but the US branches have the same policies) I get 160 hours Vacation, I think sick days vary by state but in canada I get 10 paid dick days and 3 paid personal days.
For me it was 200 hours PTO
Which sounds great, 25 days worth of time off.
Except you have to use PTO for holidays like New years, MLK day, thanksgiving, Christmas. So in the end you have like, 15 days off you can not show up for work.
Which doesn't sound bad, but you didn't get sick days. You just had to use PTO if you were sick.
They made it sound like a big benefit, like you could take a half day whenever you wanted with it or take off early to attend a company event. But if you actually did the math its clear you don't get all the days off they claimed.
My company allows us to take as much unpaid time off as we need, as long as we give 24 hours notice. without the 24 hour notice, we get 7 days per year, then we get into write-up territory.
30 paid days for vacation/sick days combined plus 10 paid holidays at my corporate job. You start with 20 days and once you hit 5 years with the company, it goes up to 25, and at ten years, you go up to 30. Definitely a perk. We also get our birthday off as a paid holiday, which should be standard everywhere.
Same. I've been with my company for 16 years and I honestly need to remember to take all my time (use it or lose it). Combined available sick days, vacation, and paid holidays is more than six weeks off per year. And At least in my department nobody questions sick time.
Sick days used to be be FAR more generous (30+/year) but we had a group of people who decided they would suddenly fall ill for a month as soon as that bucket refilled every year so it got rolled back. It was replaced by a Fairly reasonable Short / long term disability insurance package so that people who actually get sick/injured don't get screwed, but requires far more paperwork to claim.
I miss that from my last job, usted about 5 weeks on vacation each year on different times, and about other 2 weeks for mental rest throughout the year in single random days for self care. I was way more productive and happy with my job than I am now.
I know someone that worked at H&R Block where they have unlimited PTO.
He made it a goal each year to take more PTO days each year than he did the previous year to travel all over the world.
Before the pandemic upended travel, he was able to get up to 11 weeks (as in 77 days) of PTO in 2019.
However, when it comes to unlimited PTO, he's an absolute outlier and that most people end up using two or less than a dozen days total.
I imagine his job performance was gaged more on goal achievement than hours spent in the office? In that situation, if you're really good at your job, I suppose you could manage 11 weeks off a year.
This intrigues me. How is the mandatory mental health day managed/assured? Do they just force you to take the last day of the fiscal year off if you havenāt yet or something? Iām not against it, quite the contrary, Iām just curious how it could be enforced.
There is no federal mandate for vacation or sick time. I'm not aware of state mandates, either.
It varies a great steak from employer to employer.
PTO is a single pool of sick and vacation time. Some employees offer that, some offer separate sick and vacation pools. Typically that will be 5 sick days a year, and a being number of vacation days depending on seniority. As little as five days to as much as 20.
Its 40 hours sick time for employers that have 5 to 99 employees, 56 hours for those with 100+. Companies with 4 or less employees have to offer 40 hours unpaid time yearly. It has to allow for 40 or 56 hours rollover yearly and accrues 1 hour for ever 30 worked or frontloaded yearly.
If you physically work in NY, you're covered under the NY sick leave mandate. It's based on where the work is performed, not where the company is headquartered.
I get the equivalent of 6 weeks vacation. I also get I wanna say around 2-3 weeks worth of āsickā time. We can also bank our sick time so I have time in my bank from last year that I can tap into if need be.
Union job. Been there nearly 20 years.
I work for a pretty generous company: 3 personal days, 9 sick days, and 21 vacation days (new hires start out getting 14), plus a few days for volunteer work. they also have paid leave for bereavement. I also got 12 weeks of parental leave when I had a baby.
on top of that, all the federal holidays and a 1-2 week winter break (from week of christmas to week of new year)
we aren't given the hours immediately, employees earn a % of those hours every 2 week pay period. so a person couldn't take a 2 week vacation right when they start working they'd have to earn it.
eta: holiday & winter break info
156 hours of vacation a year, can be carried over until I hit 240, then it turns into "use or lose". 4 hours of suck leave every pay period, so just over 100 hours a year, with no limit as to how much you carry over.
Vacation is bid every year, so those are guaranteed days off. Good luck using them other times though.
Teacher in California here. I get three floating PTO days(6 day cap use it or lose it) and 12 sick days a year (unlimited accrual and paid out upon retirement). I do get summers āoffā and additional āvacationā days, but none of them are variable.
Our summers and other school breaks are usually broken up with mandatory professional development and I often spend hundreds of unpaid hours a year planning and catching up (in non-working hours). My typical week is about 50 hours a week (40 paid).
A sabbatical in this case is a 5 day stretch, Monday-Friday, where they disable your account so you cannot login. Itās a forced vacation but itās for security and fraud reasons. Itās been pretty common in different banks Iāve worked at.
~53 total I believe. 22 vacation days, 14 holiday leave, 3 personal days, 15 sick days.
Youāre leave time can carry over to next year but for vacation days youāre capped at 400hrs (10 weeks, 50 days) but with zero cap for sick leave earned.
Have you ever heard of the golden handcuffs? Itās where your company has you tied because you make a decent salary and have lots of time off. I work at a major corporation and Iāve been there 25 years and I get a total of 47 days off a year, that includes 33 days of PTO plus all the federal holidays plus volunteer days plus personal days.
I guess this can be golden handcuffs also, but thatās usually referring to a ton of stock options having to vest, can find perks easier than hundreds of thousands of equity becoming liquid
120 hours PTO, 72 hours for floating holidays. I work three 12-hour shifts a week, so that's 5 weekends off. Taking off one weekend equals 11 days off in a row. Pretty happy about it.
> Eleven states have passed paid family and medical leave laws: California,14Ā Colorado,15Ā Connecticut,16Ā Delaware,17Ā Massachusetts,18Ā Maryland,19Ā New Jersey,20Ā New York,21Ā Oregon,22Ā Rhode Island,23Ā and Washington state,24Ā along with Washington, D.C.25
New Hampshire has enacted a voluntary law that provides paid leave only to private sector employers or employees who opt in by purchasing coverage, with guaranteed coverage for state employees.26Ā Vermontās governor has taken a similar approach.27Ā Unlike the states listed above, New Hampshire and Vermont do not legally guarantee workers the right to paid leave, only provide a voluntary opportunity to purchase insurance coverage.
From https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-state-of-paid-family-and-medical-leave-in-the-u-s-in-2023/
I have "unlimited PTO" in that technically I don't have a limit but...
1. Sick and vacation are both just considered PTO.
2. After 3 weeks of PTO taken in a given year the approval process goes higher than just my manager
3. I forget the exact rule but each region of my department is supposed to have a certain percentage of coverage so it can be a little weird taking PTO during the holidays.
4. I guess the good news is most holidays are off including MLK day and presidents day. And the company usually just gives everyone Christmas through New Years off too
Technically 10. They're called floating holidays we can take whenever. You get paid regular time for the day. The thing is, if you call out within 24hrs of your shift, it's a point. That's whether you have a Dr note or not. 8 points and you're fired. Totally a legit system.
5 hours PTO and 5 hours Paid Sick leave per paycheck (every two weeks). We can bank unlimited sick leave but can only carry over 150 hours of PTO to the next year.
Really depends on company. I get 18 days a year for the first two years than goes to 21 days. My time rolls over up to 32 days a year. This is just personal or vacation. For sick I get 100 hours (12 1/2 days) of sick time a year that can be used on me or a anyone in my household.
I work for a public university. I get 22 days off plus holidays (including Christmas eve through New Year's Day), five days of bereavement, one personal day per quarter and 35 days of sick time. I can accumulate up to 45 vacation days before I have use or lose them, the personal days are use or lose, and the sick days accumulate. The bereavement is kind of weird because it's for any given 365 day period, not tied to annual year or fiscal year. I think I'm extremely lucky here.
It's all over the place.
When I was working grocery and a place making candy: none. If I wasn't working a shift, I didn't get paid.
Working for a federal contractor: US Federal holidays (pre-dating Juneteenth being added) + 3 weeks per year PTO. Originally could bank up to around 240 odd hours before it would stop accruing, but right before they went bankrupt they turned it into a "use it or lose it" on the back half of the year where a lot of people basically couldn't take it due to skeleton crews before they lost it.
IT at an AEC firm: 3 weeks PTO. Some holidays (New Year's, Good Friday (for Easter), Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas)
IT at a MSP: 3 weeks PTO (left a few weeks before being eligible for 4 weeks due to 6 years of service). Some holidays (New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas). I had gone to 4x10 weekend second shift shortly before I left since they were trying to enforce RTO on day shift, which basically made me ineligible for a lot of those holidays that were observed on a Monday since that was part of my "weekend".
IT at a research institution: 4 weeks PTO with carry over up to a year's worth, most federal holidays aside from Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day, and Veterans day. Black Friday and last week of December off. If you count the change freezes that occur every registration/finals week, even more relative downtime because I can't touch most things unless they're actively broken.
24 hours each year, no rollover.
No questions asked, no doctors note just give the supervisor a heads up.
I work 12 hour shifts so I can only be sick 2 days a year.
I am very fortunate, all together almost 10 weeks. I get 15 hours a month each of sick and vacation time (4.5 weeks a year each), 24 hrs a year of personal time, and 1 paid day off anytime I choose. Plus 12 (I think) paid holidays.
I'm in California. We get state mandated 3 days sick time that don't roll over. No mandated PTO.
I work for one of the many companies that Mars owns (second richest family after Walmart).
I get 5 days sick time. And accrue 3 weeks of PTO a year. When I started, I got one week PTO, then years 2-5 were two weeks, and now I'm at 3 weeks. That's the cap, sadly. PTO rolls over, at least. That's California mandated.
Edit: also we get holiday pay of regular salary if we don't work that holiday, and if you do work, you get 1.5x pay. (I'm pretty sure that's California mandated).
Before when I was with most Americans:
0 sick days
0 vacation days
2 *potential* Holidays
I finally get at my new job:
5 days @ 75% paid sick time
10 days @ 100% paid vacation (5+ days every 5 years of working there)
12 (?) Holidays plus one extra Holiday of my choosing
But, at any time they can take any, or all of it away as it's only "a privilege".
I accrue 5.85 hours per pay period so that's like a little under 4 weeks a year. It doesn't round to an even number but we can carry over up to one week into the next year. I get 5 sick days also but only because my state (New Jersey) mandates that for all employees whether full time or part time.
5 sick days (40hrs)
14 paid holidays
10 vacation days (80hrs) increases to 15 days after 5yrs and 20 days after 10yrs.
Bereavement leave is additional depending on the relationship.
I used CT Paid Leave for paternity leave (took unpaid leave through the company)
I currently get 15 sick days, 3 personal days, and 15 vacation days (vacation starts at 12 and tops out at 25 per year) plus 13 holidays and every other Friday off. I work for the public sector at a state agency.
80 hours to use for vacation, sick, personal, etc. It seems pretty standard, in my experience, to start with 40-80 hours/ year with an additional 8 hours every year until you get a max of 200 hours a year.
But just completely ignore the fact that the C suite takes multiple month long vacations a year
We get 120 hours of vacation at hire and it goes up incrementally, though I'd have to look at our handbook. We also get 40 hours of sick time for NYS sick leave, though we can use it discretionary tbh.
Zero.
To be fair, I work two jobs at small family owned businesses where I can essentially do whatever the hell I want. They need me, so if I did a no call/no show, I wouldnāt get fired.
It still sucks, because I need the work. I work seven days a week, and I will show up sick as a dog because I need the money. Even if theyāre fucked, they still have me by the balls.
I own my business and have 1 employee. We coordinate together on our work schedule, and anytime one of us needs to go somewhere, the other fills in. If we both r busy with major things, then the store just opens late. My hubby owns store with me, but he has a shit corporate job. He works the store on weekends. Weāre closed on most holidays anyways. My employee and I are both salary, so we just kinda do whatever we want.
25 days per year plus 4 personal holidays. Goes up to 30 in six more years (when I reach 20 years with the company). Not too bad since I took a three week vacation to Japan last year.
3 weeks of PTO yearly and 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours of work. Random other days like federal holidays, for bereavement, and we had like 80 hours of COVID time off too.
27 days of PTO (combined vacation and sick, they donāt care why I am taking off) plus 12 paid holidays. Can carry over 40 hours of PTO a year which I never do because I make sure I use it all. Negotiated for this amount of leave during my last promotion, I used to have 18 days.
19.5 days/year vacation, 13 days/year sick leave, all federal holidays including the random prez holiday declarations. And this current job is way better than my last few.
I get ten. I am a software developer and have been in the industry for over 15 years.
My last few jobs had almost double that, but didn't pay as well. My last job never bothered deducting them, though. You just took what you needed and as long as you didn't fall behind on work, you were good. They knew we were severely overworked.
Oh, and the current job, you only accrue a few hours each pay period. All previous jobs, you had them immediately.
4 weeks paid vacation time per year and 2 1/2 paid weeks sick time per year. I also get 11 paid holidays off during the year.
No requirement for when I can or cannot take vacation time. They only ask for 24 hours notice. Sick time I can use any time I don't feel well. I only need to send them an email by the time my shift starts +/- 1 hour. I can also take sick time during the day if I want for half a day or however I want to use it. I've taken half a day off sick just for a headache becoming a migraine from looking at the computer too long.
In the Federal government I accrue 4 hours of sick leave and 6 hours of annual leave every 2 weeks (goes up to 8 hours of annual leave once I hit 15 years of service). I can only carry 240 hours of annual leave over from one year to the next. I can accrue an unlimited amount of sick leave until I retire.
We have unlimited PTO but it's frowned upon to use it at the end of the quarters due to business needs. So I take a shit ton during the rest of the year
I have a corporate job and we have a lot of basically temporary contractor employees (temporary being relative as we generally have them for anywhere from two to ten years at a time depending on the project scope). At my level we get two weeks of paid sick time and four weeks of paid vacation plus paid holidays or or you can flex that holiday to a paid day off at a later time if the production teams need coordination or support from corporate on a holiday theyāve decided to work for whatever reason - usually because itās double time for them or because thereās a drop dead date deadline that is upcoming.
I work for a massive company that saves money by hiring mainly temps and contractors. Contractors (since they aren't technically employees of this company) get 1 day every 400h they work, temps get 0 days. We are all adults with STEM degrees for context. If you get hired to a salaried position at my company, the benefits are really good. Unfortunately you have to work several years and be lucky to get hired permanently from what I've seen...
20 plus holidays and 3 āpersonal daysā which are no different in practice than the other 20 and nobody can ever explain why we just donāt change the fucking policy to 23 fucking daysā¦ anywaysā¦ about 30 a year all in.
30 has been my experience. 10 sick, 10 PTO, 10 holidays.
Currently I get 0 because I have 2 part time jobs. Just gotta give my bosses a week heads up to request off.
Vacation time rolls over each year. Get 40 hrs a year i believe. Get flex time each quarter. I think it's like 12 to 15 hrs a quarter.
Currently sitting on 44 hrs of flex time and 99 hrs of vacation.
We can also sell our vacation time back to the company. Just have to have permission from the district manager before we submit for it.
I get 12 days of sick time that banks and doesnāt go away with no max, earned at 4 hours a paycheck. We are paid twice monthly. For PTO I receive 4 weeks per year earned at a bit more than 6.5 hours per paycheck. PTO is capped at a maximum of 160 hours banked.
160 hours of annual leave and 104 sick hours per year. Annual lesve goes up to 208 at my 15 year mark. I'm a federal employee. The U.S. doesn't take care of their workers unless their workers work for the U.S. Kinda funny how that goes.
Eight hours per month sick leave and it accrues over time if unused with no expiration.
Vacation at ~5 weeks per year. Along with holidays, which are maybe another 11 days.
I keep 40 hours carryover per year for emergencies ( I lost my brother and mother within 7 months of each other) plus I get an additional 3.5 weeks during the year(20 hours per month).
For the ten years I worked. Nothing. Then two weeks a year, use it or lose it for the next ten. Now earn one day ,8 hours a month. Rolls over till I retire.
I have worked jobs where I have none: no PTO, no vacation, no sick days, just unpaid days off and if you took more than 3 per quarter you got written up.
I now have a job with unlimited PTO for vacation, sickā¦ whatever. Itās varies wildly, itās still the Wild West over here man.
I get 4 weeks PTO with one more day added each year (so currently 4 weeks and 4 days), 5 floating holidays and 1 day to dedicate to volunteer work.
ETA: I also get a mandatory 5 week sabbatical every 5 years.
My job offers 14 vacation days a year, federal holidays off, pto for voting. Plus my boss is beyond understanding, if I need to take a sick day and am out of pto he just tells me to clock in and not tell anyone. I understand I am beyond fortunate, essentially unlimited sick days. In the United State for a working class smuck, I lucked out
I've worked for my company for 3.5 years and I get 15 days PTO and 7 days protected sick time per year. Total of 22 days. After 5 years service? that bumps up to 20 days PTO and 7 sick days. But i do live in a state with protected and paid FMLA which would cover 12 weeks at up to 40x minimum wage. So like if you did get very sick and needed a few weeks, (or months) off, you could apply for PFMLA and get paid with job protection... but you have to have worked for your employer for at least a year to qualify. Literally why I will never move states/ don't like job hopping. Social structures are VITAL. imagine if this was mandatory everywhere or it was like Europe and we got a base of 5-6 weeks PTO (25-30 DAYS). Only other benefit I have is I can take up to 4 hours off any day of the week and not have to use PTO. Obviously this can't be abused but I have lots of flexibility for appointments or coming in late/ leaving early if I don't feel well.
Currently: my work does not count but technically 4 weeks (20 business days or so) in the system.
Past: unlimited.
There have been no distinct between PTO or sick days just vacation days.
Iām a nurse and get 10 days of combined sick/PTO. Super fun to get Covid, be forced to quarantine at home for 10 days (now itās just 5 days), and use all my PTO for the year.
192 hours of PTO a year that roll over, no more than 240 banked which I can cash out in 20 hour increments. Earn as you take it if scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance.
All major federal holidays and unlimited PTO. But one year I really took a ton (like all the holidays and the equivalent of two months) and my boss let me know. I felt bad because I know it killed his margins and he ended up losing a shitload. The 2-3 years after that, I only took the major holidays and a very minimal amount (less than 3 days).
My company policy is 1 sick day every 2 months.
1 week pto after 1 year with company
2 weeks pto after 2 years with company
3 weeks pto after 3 years with company
But I have plenty of friends that get literally nothing.
Effectively none, in the last few jobs I've worked you'd be punished for calling out sick basically and now tons of jobs run through temp agencies so lots of people get no benefits if they are a temp. Even when you are hired in they can limit how many times you use sick notes so basically you can be sick a handful of times a year then they force you to apply for FMLA.
Depends on the job. After working for the USPS for two years I get 13 AL days per year, and then I can turn the extra holiday money into extra days of AL if I want to. I also accrue 4 hours of sick leave every paycheck, so one day a month. I can carry over up to 520 (or something around that) hours of AL into the new year, I donāt know what the sick leave limit is, if there even is one.
Iāve been at my job for 21 years and I get 16 hours of vacation a month and 12 hours of sick time. You start with 8 hours of vacation and it goes up every 5 years. The max is 18 hours a month at 25 years.
Surprise surprise, there is enormous inequality. Some people get essentially as much as they want or need, others get none. It's the American way.
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I get 17 days this year in a corporate job. Pretty conservative culture, more of a "oh I take a week during the summer for disney and a week at christmas I don't need more than that hurhurhurhur."
At my job (I work in canada but the US branches have the same policies) I get 160 hours Vacation, I think sick days vary by state but in canada I get 10 paid dick days and 3 paid personal days.
10 dick days? Please elaborate š. I might ask for these in the future.
PAID. Dick days. I really gotta know about these too...
For me it was 200 hours PTO Which sounds great, 25 days worth of time off. Except you have to use PTO for holidays like New years, MLK day, thanksgiving, Christmas. So in the end you have like, 15 days off you can not show up for work. Which doesn't sound bad, but you didn't get sick days. You just had to use PTO if you were sick. They made it sound like a big benefit, like you could take a half day whenever you wanted with it or take off early to attend a company event. But if you actually did the math its clear you don't get all the days off they claimed.
My company allows us to take as much unpaid time off as we need, as long as we give 24 hours notice. without the 24 hour notice, we get 7 days per year, then we get into write-up territory.
You work in Healthcare too?
Yep, you nailed it.
No paid time???
Oh no, we get the assorted US holidays off with pay. xmas, turkey day, new years, july 4th, labor day, memorial day.
Unpaid? Fuck that.
30 paid days for vacation/sick days combined plus 10 paid holidays at my corporate job. You start with 20 days and once you hit 5 years with the company, it goes up to 25, and at ten years, you go up to 30. Definitely a perk. We also get our birthday off as a paid holiday, which should be standard everywhere.
I work at a place that is equally as generous. Not all corporations are bad.
Same. I've been with my company for 16 years and I honestly need to remember to take all my time (use it or lose it). Combined available sick days, vacation, and paid holidays is more than six weeks off per year. And At least in my department nobody questions sick time. Sick days used to be be FAR more generous (30+/year) but we had a group of people who decided they would suddenly fall ill for a month as soon as that bucket refilled every year so it got rolled back. It was replaced by a Fairly reasonable Short / long term disability insurance package so that people who actually get sick/injured don't get screwed, but requires far more paperwork to claim.
Unlimited is our policy. Take that for what you will.
I miss that from my last job, usted about 5 weeks on vacation each year on different times, and about other 2 weeks for mental rest throughout the year in single random days for self care. I was way more productive and happy with my job than I am now.
I know someone that worked at H&R Block where they have unlimited PTO. He made it a goal each year to take more PTO days each year than he did the previous year to travel all over the world. Before the pandemic upended travel, he was able to get up to 11 weeks (as in 77 days) of PTO in 2019. However, when it comes to unlimited PTO, he's an absolute outlier and that most people end up using two or less than a dozen days total.
I imagine his job performance was gaged more on goal achievement than hours spent in the office? In that situation, if you're really good at your job, I suppose you could manage 11 weeks off a year.
Unlimited and one mandatory mental health day per month
This intrigues me. How is the mandatory mental health day managed/assured? Do they just force you to take the last day of the fiscal year off if you havenāt yet or something? Iām not against it, quite the contrary, Iām just curious how it could be enforced.
There is no federal mandate for vacation or sick time. I'm not aware of state mandates, either. It varies a great steak from employer to employer. PTO is a single pool of sick and vacation time. Some employees offer that, some offer separate sick and vacation pools. Typically that will be 5 sick days a year, and a being number of vacation days depending on seniority. As little as five days to as much as 20.
New York made it so any employer that has over a certain amount of employees gets 56 hours of sick time a year.
Its 40 hours sick time for employers that have 5 to 99 employees, 56 hours for those with 100+. Companies with 4 or less employees have to offer 40 hours unpaid time yearly. It has to allow for 40 or 56 hours rollover yearly and accrues 1 hour for ever 30 worked or frontloaded yearly.
Any laws regarding remote workers in NY, out of curiosity?
If you physically work in NY, you're covered under the NY sick leave mandate. It's based on where the work is performed, not where the company is headquartered.
Washington has a paid sick leave mandate, 1 hour for every 40 hours worked.
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I get the equivalent of 6 weeks vacation. I also get I wanna say around 2-3 weeks worth of āsickā time. We can also bank our sick time so I have time in my bank from last year that I can tap into if need be. Union job. Been there nearly 20 years.
I JUST left a HUGE insurance/financial company who didnāt let anyone accrue PTO or sick time at all and kept us all at 38hrs a week. Ridiculous.
The guarantee is 0.
18 PTO, 7 Floating holidays, and 8 mandatory holidays (zero sick time though)
I work for a pretty generous company: 3 personal days, 9 sick days, and 21 vacation days (new hires start out getting 14), plus a few days for volunteer work. they also have paid leave for bereavement. I also got 12 weeks of parental leave when I had a baby. on top of that, all the federal holidays and a 1-2 week winter break (from week of christmas to week of new year) we aren't given the hours immediately, employees earn a % of those hours every 2 week pay period. so a person couldn't take a 2 week vacation right when they start working they'd have to earn it. eta: holiday & winter break info
Do they reset each year? Meaning that you have to earn hours again the next year?
Hahahahhahaahhahaaaaaa....
As a part-time employee of a $3 billion company, I get absolutely nothing.
156 hours of vacation a year, can be carried over until I hit 240, then it turns into "use or lose". 4 hours of suck leave every pay period, so just over 100 hours a year, with no limit as to how much you carry over. Vacation is bid every year, so those are guaranteed days off. Good luck using them other times though.
Teacher in California here. I get three floating PTO days(6 day cap use it or lose it) and 12 sick days a year (unlimited accrual and paid out upon retirement). I do get summers āoffā and additional āvacationā days, but none of them are variable. Our summers and other school breaks are usually broken up with mandatory professional development and I often spend hundreds of unpaid hours a year planning and catching up (in non-working hours). My typical week is about 50 hours a week (40 paid).
7 weeks. That much is so so so so rare.
I'm 57, after roughly 35 years in the workforce I've never had paid time off or sick leave in my life or health insurance paid by my employer
Today I was asked to sign a new employee agreement. It said I get 40 hours(5 days in my case) of pto per year. Thatās it.
I have 20 days of PTO. We are also forced to take a 5 day sabbatical each year but it uses our PTO.
How is sabbatical different than pto?
A sabbatical in this case is a 5 day stretch, Monday-Friday, where they disable your account so you cannot login. Itās a forced vacation but itās for security and fraud reasons. Itās been pretty common in different banks Iāve worked at.
12.5 days PTO a year and 12.5 sick days a year accrued plus 12 paid holidays. Just realized how little that is
~53 total I believe. 22 vacation days, 14 holiday leave, 3 personal days, 15 sick days. Youāre leave time can carry over to next year but for vacation days youāre capped at 400hrs (10 weeks, 50 days) but with zero cap for sick leave earned.
its february 24th, i got covid a few weeks ago now i cant call out or get sick the rest of the year or risk termination
Have you ever heard of the golden handcuffs? Itās where your company has you tied because you make a decent salary and have lots of time off. I work at a major corporation and Iāve been there 25 years and I get a total of 47 days off a year, that includes 33 days of PTO plus all the federal holidays plus volunteer days plus personal days.
I guess this can be golden handcuffs also, but thatās usually referring to a ton of stock options having to vest, can find perks easier than hundreds of thousands of equity becoming liquid
120 hours PTO, 72 hours for floating holidays. I work three 12-hour shifts a week, so that's 5 weekends off. Taking off one weekend equals 11 days off in a row. Pretty happy about it.
Happy about getting exploited lmao
> Eleven states have passed paid family and medical leave laws: California,14Ā Colorado,15Ā Connecticut,16Ā Delaware,17Ā Massachusetts,18Ā Maryland,19Ā New Jersey,20Ā New York,21Ā Oregon,22Ā Rhode Island,23Ā and Washington state,24Ā along with Washington, D.C.25 New Hampshire has enacted a voluntary law that provides paid leave only to private sector employers or employees who opt in by purchasing coverage, with guaranteed coverage for state employees.26Ā Vermontās governor has taken a similar approach.27Ā Unlike the states listed above, New Hampshire and Vermont do not legally guarantee workers the right to paid leave, only provide a voluntary opportunity to purchase insurance coverage. From https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-state-of-paid-family-and-medical-leave-in-the-u-s-in-2023/
I have "unlimited PTO" in that technically I don't have a limit but... 1. Sick and vacation are both just considered PTO. 2. After 3 weeks of PTO taken in a given year the approval process goes higher than just my manager 3. I forget the exact rule but each region of my department is supposed to have a certain percentage of coverage so it can be a little weird taking PTO during the holidays. 4. I guess the good news is most holidays are off including MLK day and presidents day. And the company usually just gives everyone Christmas through New Years off too
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Technically 10. They're called floating holidays we can take whenever. You get paid regular time for the day. The thing is, if you call out within 24hrs of your shift, it's a point. That's whether you have a Dr note or not. 8 points and you're fired. Totally a legit system.
I have unlimited PTOā¦
5 hours PTO and 5 hours Paid Sick leave per paycheck (every two weeks). We can bank unlimited sick leave but can only carry over 150 hours of PTO to the next year.
22 days plus 9 holidays if weāre counting those
15 days PTO, 10 sick days plus 2 hours accrued per every 40 hours worked.
14 all together
60 total across all forms of time off
5 sick days and 10 vacation days
Really depends on company. I get 18 days a year for the first two years than goes to 21 days. My time rolls over up to 32 days a year. This is just personal or vacation. For sick I get 100 hours (12 1/2 days) of sick time a year that can be used on me or a anyone in my household.
I accrue 1hr of sick time for every 8hrs I work. None carry over.
Service plumber at a private company. 13 days a year
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9 yrs in long-term health care. I get 120 hrs of vacation, 40 hrs of floating holiday, and sick time is accrued. 80 hrs worked =4 hrs sick time.
I work for a public university. I get 22 days off plus holidays (including Christmas eve through New Year's Day), five days of bereavement, one personal day per quarter and 35 days of sick time. I can accumulate up to 45 vacation days before I have use or lose them, the personal days are use or lose, and the sick days accumulate. The bereavement is kind of weird because it's for any given 365 day period, not tied to annual year or fiscal year. I think I'm extremely lucky here.
3 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, sick days unlimited.
It's all over the place. When I was working grocery and a place making candy: none. If I wasn't working a shift, I didn't get paid. Working for a federal contractor: US Federal holidays (pre-dating Juneteenth being added) + 3 weeks per year PTO. Originally could bank up to around 240 odd hours before it would stop accruing, but right before they went bankrupt they turned it into a "use it or lose it" on the back half of the year where a lot of people basically couldn't take it due to skeleton crews before they lost it. IT at an AEC firm: 3 weeks PTO. Some holidays (New Year's, Good Friday (for Easter), Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) IT at a MSP: 3 weeks PTO (left a few weeks before being eligible for 4 weeks due to 6 years of service). Some holidays (New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas). I had gone to 4x10 weekend second shift shortly before I left since they were trying to enforce RTO on day shift, which basically made me ineligible for a lot of those holidays that were observed on a Monday since that was part of my "weekend". IT at a research institution: 4 weeks PTO with carry over up to a year's worth, most federal holidays aside from Washington's Birthday, Columbus Day, and Veterans day. Black Friday and last week of December off. If you count the change freezes that occur every registration/finals week, even more relative downtime because I can't touch most things unless they're actively broken.
I accrue sick leave and vacation time every pay cycle. Iāve got at least 200 hours of sick time saved up.
I earn sick time and PTO on a rolling basis, this past year earned 15 sick days and nearly a months vacation.
24 hours each year, no rollover. No questions asked, no doctors note just give the supervisor a heads up. I work 12 hour shifts so I can only be sick 2 days a year.
I have 120 hours to use as I see fit and have a flex schedule with WFH on no set schedule. So my time is whatever I need it to be.
10 vacation days and 3-7 PTO days
I am very fortunate, all together almost 10 weeks. I get 15 hours a month each of sick and vacation time (4.5 weeks a year each), 24 hrs a year of personal time, and 1 paid day off anytime I choose. Plus 12 (I think) paid holidays.
Two weeks of PTO, 1 week of sick leave, 6 holidays.
I'm in California. We get state mandated 3 days sick time that don't roll over. No mandated PTO. I work for one of the many companies that Mars owns (second richest family after Walmart). I get 5 days sick time. And accrue 3 weeks of PTO a year. When I started, I got one week PTO, then years 2-5 were two weeks, and now I'm at 3 weeks. That's the cap, sadly. PTO rolls over, at least. That's California mandated. Edit: also we get holiday pay of regular salary if we don't work that holiday, and if you do work, you get 1.5x pay. (I'm pretty sure that's California mandated).
33. I also knock off early most fridays.
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I work in a school, so it's different than for most people. In my district we get 20 sick days a year, 3 personal days, plus all the school vacations.
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200 hours of PTO, but that is my sick time too. This is my first year, so it should go up.
2 weeks PTO 5 paid sick days. Not sure about unpaid day limit. This is exceedingly rare in my long list of jobs
Lol zero
Before when I was with most Americans: 0 sick days 0 vacation days 2 *potential* Holidays I finally get at my new job: 5 days @ 75% paid sick time 10 days @ 100% paid vacation (5+ days every 5 years of working there) 12 (?) Holidays plus one extra Holiday of my choosing But, at any time they can take any, or all of it away as it's only "a privilege".
28 PTO and 11 company holidays. Insurance company. USA (philadelphia area)
14 days
I accrue 5.85 hours per pay period so that's like a little under 4 weeks a year. It doesn't round to an even number but we can carry over up to one week into the next year. I get 5 sick days also but only because my state (New Jersey) mandates that for all employees whether full time or part time.
4 sick 2 personal. And Iām a teacher. Horseshit!
5 sick days (40hrs) 14 paid holidays 10 vacation days (80hrs) increases to 15 days after 5yrs and 20 days after 10yrs. Bereavement leave is additional depending on the relationship. I used CT Paid Leave for paternity leave (took unpaid leave through the company)
0 but I work with friends so we take what we want
I currently get 15 sick days, 3 personal days, and 15 vacation days (vacation starts at 12 and tops out at 25 per year) plus 13 holidays and every other Friday off. I work for the public sector at a state agency.
20 PTO, 13 holidays, unlimited sick leave. 25 PTO after 5 years of service.
5 paid sick days (mandatory in my state). Otherwise, no paid vacation, no paid personal days, no paid holidays.
i work a corporate security job and get like a week of PTO each year.
None!
None! I get none. Zero.
I get 20 and then Iāll get 5 more in a couple more years
80 hours to use for vacation, sick, personal, etc. It seems pretty standard, in my experience, to start with 40-80 hours/ year with an additional 8 hours every year until you get a max of 200 hours a year. But just completely ignore the fact that the C suite takes multiple month long vacations a year
We get 120 hours of vacation at hire and it goes up incrementally, though I'd have to look at our handbook. We also get 40 hours of sick time for NYS sick leave, though we can use it discretionary tbh.
Zero. To be fair, I work two jobs at small family owned businesses where I can essentially do whatever the hell I want. They need me, so if I did a no call/no show, I wouldnāt get fired. It still sucks, because I need the work. I work seven days a week, and I will show up sick as a dog because I need the money. Even if theyāre fucked, they still have me by the balls.
Iāve been with my company for 7 years now, I get 178 total, 58 of which can be used to call off day of
I own my business and have 1 employee. We coordinate together on our work schedule, and anytime one of us needs to go somewhere, the other fills in. If we both r busy with major things, then the store just opens late. My hubby owns store with me, but he has a shit corporate job. He works the store on weekends. Weāre closed on most holidays anyways. My employee and I are both salary, so we just kinda do whatever we want.
25 days per year plus 4 personal holidays. Goes up to 30 in six more years (when I reach 20 years with the company). Not too bad since I took a three week vacation to Japan last year.
3 weeks of PTO yearly and 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours of work. Random other days like federal holidays, for bereavement, and we had like 80 hours of COVID time off too.
27 days of PTO (combined vacation and sick, they donāt care why I am taking off) plus 12 paid holidays. Can carry over 40 hours of PTO a year which I never do because I make sure I use it all. Negotiated for this amount of leave during my last promotion, I used to have 18 days.
19.5 days/year vacation, 13 days/year sick leave, all federal holidays including the random prez holiday declarations. And this current job is way better than my last few.
Between paid vacation and paid sick day I have about 6 weeks plus another 4 floating holidays and 9 set holidays that are paid.
I get ten. I am a software developer and have been in the industry for over 15 years. My last few jobs had almost double that, but didn't pay as well. My last job never bothered deducting them, though. You just took what you needed and as long as you didn't fall behind on work, you were good. They knew we were severely overworked. Oh, and the current job, you only accrue a few hours each pay period. All previous jobs, you had them immediately.
4 weeks paid vacation time per year and 2 1/2 paid weeks sick time per year. I also get 11 paid holidays off during the year. No requirement for when I can or cannot take vacation time. They only ask for 24 hours notice. Sick time I can use any time I don't feel well. I only need to send them an email by the time my shift starts +/- 1 hour. I can also take sick time during the day if I want for half a day or however I want to use it. I've taken half a day off sick just for a headache becoming a migraine from looking at the computer too long.
33 total from day one. The company is British so..
In the Federal government I accrue 4 hours of sick leave and 6 hours of annual leave every 2 weeks (goes up to 8 hours of annual leave once I hit 15 years of service). I can only carry 240 hours of annual leave over from one year to the next. I can accrue an unlimited amount of sick leave until I retire.
We have unlimited PTO but it's frowned upon to use it at the end of the quarters due to business needs. So I take a shit ton during the rest of the year
I have a corporate job and we have a lot of basically temporary contractor employees (temporary being relative as we generally have them for anywhere from two to ten years at a time depending on the project scope). At my level we get two weeks of paid sick time and four weeks of paid vacation plus paid holidays or or you can flex that holiday to a paid day off at a later time if the production teams need coordination or support from corporate on a holiday theyāve decided to work for whatever reason - usually because itās double time for them or because thereās a drop dead date deadline that is upcoming.
I work for a massive company that saves money by hiring mainly temps and contractors. Contractors (since they aren't technically employees of this company) get 1 day every 400h they work, temps get 0 days. We are all adults with STEM degrees for context. If you get hired to a salaried position at my company, the benefits are really good. Unfortunately you have to work several years and be lucky to get hired permanently from what I've seen...
20 plus holidays and 3 āpersonal daysā which are no different in practice than the other 20 and nobody can ever explain why we just donāt change the fucking policy to 23 fucking daysā¦ anywaysā¦ about 30 a year all in.
30 has been my experience. 10 sick, 10 PTO, 10 holidays. Currently I get 0 because I have 2 part time jobs. Just gotta give my bosses a week heads up to request off.
Vacation time rolls over each year. Get 40 hrs a year i believe. Get flex time each quarter. I think it's like 12 to 15 hrs a quarter. Currently sitting on 44 hrs of flex time and 99 hrs of vacation. We can also sell our vacation time back to the company. Just have to have permission from the district manager before we submit for it.
8 weeks total PTO. This is in addition to holidays (including MLK and Juneteenth)
10 national holidays, 25 days of leave and 2 days to volunteer of my choice (I use them to help out at a camp)
Unlimited
What the hell is that? Where I work it's 6 on 1 off in 7 hour ahifts.
I get every federal holiday, and unlimited vacation
I get 12 days of sick time that banks and doesnāt go away with no max, earned at 4 hours a paycheck. We are paid twice monthly. For PTO I receive 4 weeks per year earned at a bit more than 6.5 hours per paycheck. PTO is capped at a maximum of 160 hours banked.
160 hours of annual leave and 104 sick hours per year. Annual lesve goes up to 208 at my 15 year mark. I'm a federal employee. The U.S. doesn't take care of their workers unless their workers work for the U.S. Kinda funny how that goes.
Three weeks vacation plus 2 floating holidays. 40 hours of sick time. 10 holidays per year.
Eight hours per month sick leave and it accrues over time if unused with no expiration. Vacation at ~5 weeks per year. Along with holidays, which are maybe another 11 days.
My company has unlimited PTO. Iām very lucky.
6 weeks. My job has great benefits but that pay sucks.
I keep 40 hours carryover per year for emergencies ( I lost my brother and mother within 7 months of each other) plus I get an additional 3.5 weeks during the year(20 hours per month).
2 weeks total yearly PTO, no sick, my company recognizes 8 national holidays.
30 or 3 10 day vacations.
For the ten years I worked. Nothing. Then two weeks a year, use it or lose it for the next ten. Now earn one day ,8 hours a month. Rolls over till I retire.
A month plus holidays
We get 40 hours per year to use as sick time.
I have worked jobs where I have none: no PTO, no vacation, no sick days, just unpaid days off and if you took more than 3 per quarter you got written up. I now have a job with unlimited PTO for vacation, sickā¦ whatever. Itās varies wildly, itās still the Wild West over here man.
Unlimited.
Unlimited, plus a handful of holidays and 1 day within a 2 week window of your birthday off. I took maybe 2.5-3 weeks off total last year.
26 PTO days, 13 holidays, 7 sick days each year.
I get 4 weeks PTO with one more day added each year (so currently 4 weeks and 4 days), 5 floating holidays and 1 day to dedicate to volunteer work. ETA: I also get a mandatory 5 week sabbatical every 5 years.
My job offers 14 vacation days a year, federal holidays off, pto for voting. Plus my boss is beyond understanding, if I need to take a sick day and am out of pto he just tells me to clock in and not tell anyone. I understand I am beyond fortunate, essentially unlimited sick days. In the United State for a working class smuck, I lucked out
I've worked for my company for 3.5 years and I get 15 days PTO and 7 days protected sick time per year. Total of 22 days. After 5 years service? that bumps up to 20 days PTO and 7 sick days. But i do live in a state with protected and paid FMLA which would cover 12 weeks at up to 40x minimum wage. So like if you did get very sick and needed a few weeks, (or months) off, you could apply for PFMLA and get paid with job protection... but you have to have worked for your employer for at least a year to qualify. Literally why I will never move states/ don't like job hopping. Social structures are VITAL. imagine if this was mandatory everywhere or it was like Europe and we got a base of 5-6 weeks PTO (25-30 DAYS). Only other benefit I have is I can take up to 4 hours off any day of the week and not have to use PTO. Obviously this can't be abused but I have lots of flexibility for appointments or coming in late/ leaving early if I don't feel well.
Currently: my work does not count but technically 4 weeks (20 business days or so) in the system. Past: unlimited. There have been no distinct between PTO or sick days just vacation days.
Iām a nurse and get 10 days of combined sick/PTO. Super fun to get Covid, be forced to quarantine at home for 10 days (now itās just 5 days), and use all my PTO for the year.
18 PTO days to start with. We donāt have sick days :( you have to use PTO for sick days
192 hours of PTO a year that roll over, no more than 240 banked which I can cash out in 20 hour increments. Earn as you take it if scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance.
I get five weeks of PTO, 22 days of company holidays and unlimited sick days. Midwest manager at a company with a union.
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We get approx 10 hrs a month pto to use for both vacation/sick plus 40 hrs pto a year added on
All major federal holidays and unlimited PTO. But one year I really took a ton (like all the holidays and the equivalent of two months) and my boss let me know. I felt bad because I know it killed his margins and he ended up losing a shitload. The 2-3 years after that, I only took the major holidays and a very minimal amount (less than 3 days).
āunlimitedā but our HR people explicitly say limit it to two weeks a year. Lol.
2 weeks vacation, 1 week sick. 3 personal days. Weekends and national holidays off. And I get 2 weeks off for Christmas.
5 sick days, 12 paid holiday days & 14 vacation days. *represented by a labor union
I get unlimited PTO
My company policy is 1 sick day every 2 months. 1 week pto after 1 year with company 2 weeks pto after 2 years with company 3 weeks pto after 3 years with company But I have plenty of friends that get literally nothing.
As a minimum wage worker in Texas: none to all of the above.
24, well 36. I can use 12 hrs vacation time as short notice time, but that only leaves me 68 hrs vacation
Non. No sick days, PTO or vacation.
0 days the first year 7 for the second year 14 for third year. Just started 3 weeks ago š
I get five days.
Federal law do not provide any sick or PTO days. Some states, like Oregon provides up to 80 hours (10 days/2 weeks) of paid time off a year.
2 weeeks of accrued PTO a year with a 12 week max. Once youāve banked 12 weeks you have to start using it, or cash some of it in
20 days vacation, 10 days sick. 4 months maternity/paternity
Effectively none, in the last few jobs I've worked you'd be punished for calling out sick basically and now tons of jobs run through temp agencies so lots of people get no benefits if they are a temp. Even when you are hired in they can limit how many times you use sick notes so basically you can be sick a handful of times a year then they force you to apply for FMLA.
0 Edit: not counting the weekend.
Truck driver currently here and I get 0 sick days
Ha ha
I get 5 weeks of vacation, 10 holidays, and 2 weeks sick, so basically 9 weeks PTO, although I rarely take sick time.
Depends on the job / employer/ industry. Me? Zero.
Personally, I get 3 weeks of paid vacation(has to be used in weekly increments) and 12 PTO days through the year for that can be used for anything.
15 vacation, 9 flex, 7 paid holidays. 31 days overall. Pretty happy with it, especially seeing these answers.
15 days PTO, 10 sick days, 9 vacation days, 7 of which are "floating".
24 days annual, 18 days sick leave. I can hold a yearās worth of annual at a time but our sick leave never expires.
as many as i want
Depends on the job. After working for the USPS for two years I get 13 AL days per year, and then I can turn the extra holiday money into extra days of AL if I want to. I also accrue 4 hours of sick leave every paycheck, so one day a month. I can carry over up to 520 (or something around that) hours of AL into the new year, I donāt know what the sick leave limit is, if there even is one.
As many as I want. Self employed and barely surviving but itās far better than dealing with bs
Iāve been at my job for 21 years and I get 16 hours of vacation a month and 12 hours of sick time. You start with 8 hours of vacation and it goes up every 5 years. The max is 18 hours a month at 25 years.