S/O Poll for days off per year - paid

[downtoearth]

Counting the days you get for holidays and vacation, but discounting sick leave altogether, how many days do you get paid off?

For example, we get 8 paid holiday days and then due to my seniority I get 15 days of paid vacation, so total I get 23 days off per year - paid, but not including my sick time.  That is 5.5 weeks of time off (business days).  However a senior VP at the company could get up to 30 days per year, so as my time and seniority increase, I can get more.  But the total max in a year is 38 days for anyone. 

If you don't get a traditional day off schedule (aka SAHW/SAHP or own your own business, you can special snowflake and describe your days off). 

[downtoearth]

Oh and you can pick your number and type of work (if you want).

Can app people see polls yet?

[KateAggie]

Do you want how much you technically get, or how much you can actually take?

[chedifuen]

I am in back office operations for a bank. I get 25 pto days and 8 holidays. I am encouraged to use it all each year.

[downtoearth]

Feb 24, 2014 16:37:04 GMT -5 KateAggie said:

Do you want how much you technically get, or how much you can actually take?

Let's say how many days you can technically get, not how many you have taken recently.  So how many are in your contract rather than if you had many more this year due to family medical leave or b/c you didn't take a vacation. 

But that would be interesting to know also. 

[y4m]

I think not including sick time skews it for me--I get 20 days, plus 8 holidays, plus 2 floating holidays, so 30. But we don't have separate sick time, so that's lumped in there too. Of course, I work from home, so there's a pretty high bar for too sick to go to work.

[asilsjf]

I'm self employed, so I technically don't get any days off. I check email/voicemail every single day, even Christmas. If I do leave (which I've done a lot this year), I typically work a lot before I leave and catch up when I get back, meaning I work the same number of total hours no matter what I do.

[NitaX]

We get 16 paid holidays, and you can accrue time. My accrued vacation time equates to roughly 14 days. I never take that many vacation days. Right now, I believe I have about 17-18 vacation days on the books. The time where I'd typically take vacation - we already get those days off as paid holidays. *shrugs*

But, this year, I have a couple of trips coming up, so I'll certainly dip in those days. 

[wawa]

I at the moment have 20 (10 VAC 10 holidays) but in april if I'm still here I jump to 15 days of vacay. Not having to start over from zip is the main focus of My current new job negotiations.

[ESF]

I have a billable hour requirement and no real vacation time. If I had a predictable work flow, I could arguably take 4-6 weeks off a year, except my work doesn't really work like that. Some days I just have nothing to do, so I'm not billing anything even though I'm not on vacation. If I take too much vacation, and have too many low points, I won't reach my minimum, and get screwed at the end of the year. My minimum is pretty low by law firm standards, so meeting that isn't too hard provided I'm available, but it does require some effort to budget and plan.

I take a mix of straight "not checking email at all" days, "i'm out of town but will check emails and maybe do a couple hours of work here and there" days, and "I've got personal stuff/family stuff/holiday stuff to do at home, but I'll be around to do some things if you need them" days.

It's good for flexibility purposes, it's bad because it's really hard to really get a break.

[KateAggie]

Feb 24, 2014 16:40:38 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

Feb 24, 2014 16:37:04 GMT -5 KateAggie said:

Do you want how much you technically get, or how much you can actually take?

Let's say how many days you can technically get, not how many you have taken recently.  So how many are in your contract rather than if you had many more this year due to family medical leave or b/c you didn't take a vacation. 

But that would be interesting to know also. 

I still don't know how to answer.  My DH gets 6 weeks a year, based on position and seniority, in addition to paid holidays.  But there is no way he could ever actually take that much time off.  The only time that would actually happen is if he was dealing with some kind of FMLA situation, which is certainly awesome, but not expected.  So saying he gets 6 weeks vacation doesn't really seem accurate when he really could only afford to take 3 weeks from a job performance POV.

[lasagnasshole]

10 federal holidays. 13 days annual leave (1/2 day per pay period). 13 days sick leave. I can earn comp time, though, and I can carry up to 3 days' worth of it from one pay period to the next.

I'm trying to only use comp time for both sick and vacation time from here on out because it takes 2 years and 8 weeks to build up 12 weeks' worth of leave.

[msmerymac]

So kind of 0.

But I bill semi-monthly, so whenever the office is closed for a holiday, I still get to charge the same rate as if there hadn't been a holiday, but I don't have to be available to work (whether or not I do work is another story, but usually not).

ETA: If I'm on vacation, my options are: "sorry, not available, try to avoid sending me work, but if you do, I'll deal with it when I get back" or "I'll deal with things here and there while I'm out of town, but the turn around may be a bit slow" or "I'm not even telling you I'm on vacation because we rented a cabin with wi-fi and I'm just working from a new and interesting location, but otherwise as normal."

[Velar Fricative]

Can't see the app but per year I get:

10 federal holidays
20 vacation days
2 floating holidays

My vacation day accruals (and my separate sick day accruals) increase as I put more years in.

ETA: We are a city/state/federal-funded but also private non-profit organization. Or something like that. It's weird.

[bronxgirl]

I get 20 vacation days, 3 personal days and 9 holidays. I actually work part time so I get half of that but I answered for the full time equivalency.

[laurenpetro]

I think I have 8 paid holidays and 5 vacation days. We're also closed the week of July 4th.

[Deleted]

We get 11 holidays and 10/15/20 days vacation based on time served. But I also get an additional 26 days a year off (every other Friday) cause we do a 9/80.

Salary have unlimited sick time and hourly get 40 hrs/yr

ETA: for the holidays, 7 are used up between Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years

[irishbride2]

holy cow! So the vast majority get 6-8 weeks!?!? I'm impressed.

[Deleted]

11 holidays
20 vacation days
4 "flex" days (one per quarter, no carryforward)

For a total of 35 days.

[cosmos]

15 vacation days, 7 personal days, 8 paid holidays, unlimited paid sick days(but x amt in a row will trigger STD which is not my full salary). So 30 days/6 weeks discounting sick.

I also can WFH for things like snowstorms, school closings, etc, so I don't need to use my days for that.

I have no idea how I am going to use them all.

[pamela]

I put 20 since we have 10 holidays and 2 weeks of vacation. However, those holidays are 8 hours each and we work 10 hour days. So if I want to actually take a holiday off, I have to make up those two hours or steal them from another holiday and take less overall.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

I accrue 6.25 hours per month, so about 10 days per year.
We get around 10 days at Christmas, 3 @ Thanksgiving, Good Friday, and federal holidays. Plus we get half day Fridays for 6 weeks on the summer. So around 30 total.

I work in higher ed.

[boiler717]

25 vacation/personal days
15 holidays

[andrealynn]

I have 4 weeks of vacation and 15 holidays, so I answered 30-39 on your poll. But, we get several extra other days, too, like 3 paid days to volunteer, and 3 full days we can take to do family/school events. I also have a separate sick bank, which is 2 weeks per year and it banks up to 420 hours.

[rugbywife]

Feb 24, 2014 17:29:59 GMT -5 irishbride2 said:

holy cow! So the vast majority get 6-8 weeks!?!? I'm impressed.

That's what I was going to say!

I only really have a couple of close friends who aren't teachers.  One of them get's stat holidays (I think we have 11) and then 10 days. The other gets way more, like stats plus 4-5 weeks.  My dad never really got stats when we lived overseas but he got 7 weeks of paid holiday, which made up for it. But is also a doctor.

[rugbywife]

Here's my follow up:

How many of you do NOT take all your vacation days because it is frowned upon? Do you get to bank them? Do you want to take them but can't keep up with work load?
Are sick days a big deal?

[redheadbaker]

Zero paid holidays; zero paid sick days; zero paid time off of any kind.

I'm a contractor.

[y4m]

I'm not allowed to accrue more than 20 days total (one year's worth of vacation), so that means we are pretty much forced to take it, and we do. I've been in other jobs where vacation was "not tracked/unlimited" but in practice it meant no one took time off ever. I like this practice much more.

[Deleted]

21 vacation, 2 personal, and 15 paid holidays.

[Deleted]

21 vacation, 2 personal, and 15 paid holidays.