Comments on: How Many Paid Vacation Days Do You Get Every Year?

By: Lemonade

Lemonade — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 23:02:30 +0000

Healthcare (I’m a doctor in an outpatient-only practice)
Accrue 8 hours PTO per pay period so ~21 days per year +
12 holidays- includes our birthday and 3 anything days
PTO is vacation or sick time
Parental leave- 2 weeks…
Fun part is that we have productivity goals we are supposed to meet and they are not adjusted for PTO so if you take PTO, you likely will miss your productivity goals and then have your salary cut.

By: Baby Weight

Baby Weight — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:49:01 +0000

In total my husband and I have been at 5 firms of over 300 lawyers each. We’ve never had vacation, sick, or PTO. That’s right — no vacation, no sick. It’s awful.

By: Baby Weight

Baby Weight — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:47:27 +0000

In reply to J. I have only been at large firms (500+ attys). I have never had vacation, sick, or PTO.

By: techgirl

techgirl — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:10:34 +0000

25 days of paid annual leave, and have the option to purchase 10 additional days annual leave if I wish. I also get the 8 public holidays paid (9 this year, for Queen’s jubilee), and also can take up to four 1 week blocks of unpaid parental leave per year (for a total of 18 weeks before child turns 18). Annual leave is use it or lose it each year, although I have negotiated some basic rollover (ie taken it on the first week of the next year etc).
What is great at my company is that the annual leave year starts on your birth month. Other places I’ve seen do it over the calendar year or financial year. This way everyone’s year isn’t up at the same time so we aren’t all fighting to book the last two weeks of March off.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:04:47 +0000

So, I get 28 days of paid time off, plus public holidays (UK-based), unlimited sick days (and if I need time off for an appointment, my manager is okay with it as long as I’m not missing anything client-facing), and it’s use it or lose it with some roll-over.

Having said that, lots of people work during holidays, in the evenings occasionally (the classic 22:30 email thread after a beach day!), but many don’t.

By: iliketoknit

iliketoknit — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:36:46 +0000

Federal government (someone may have already covered this), currently earning 6 hours of annual leave and 6 hours of sick leave per two-week pay period. There is a use-or-lose on the annual leave, I think the leave expires after 3 years? Your annual leave balance gets paid out when you leave the job (retirement or other), so I regularly see coworkers who anticipate retiring soon taking as little leave as possible. Sick leave doesn’t expire, but it doesn’t get paid out, either (which is fine). There’s a fairly generous nation-wide leave bank that you can tap into if you use up your sick leave, whereby people can donate some of their banked leave (though I have to check, I think you have to donate annual leave and can’t donate sick leave). The fact that this exists makes clear that people do use up their sick leave when you get into the more dire chronic illnesses, but I think overall it’s much better than many employers.

I am really bad about taking vacations so I have probably 3 weeks of use-or-lose accrued at this point. I also don’t have kids – I know a number of federal workers who’ve absolutely scraped to save up sick and annual leave to put together some kind of paid maternity leave before the federal maternity leave bill was passed and they regularly burn through all their leave. I and a lot of people I know with use-or-lose often just end up taking a bunch of time around the winter holidays (although I do plan on a relatively big trip later this year to use it up).