Average sick days

[IHeartTink04]

I'm a teacher too and we get 10 days a year that roll over. Seems to be the same as most in the public school system.

 

[kamikazecat]

I am a teacher in Nevada and get 15 sick leave days + 2 personal days a year. We can not take either type of leave up against a holiday or a long weekend without a doctor's note.

 

[aprilgail2]

We get 12 sick days a year which you can bank from year to year--when you retire you can sell them back to the comoany for half their value--it gives lots of people 10,000+ bonus checks at retirement! I also get 6 personal days.

 

[DebbieB]

My company has a PTO system, no separate sick days. We start out with 20 days for new employees, 30 days for over 25 years (increases in between, can't remember the numbers). After 5 days of PTO for one illness, it goes to short term disability (up to 13 weeks). PTO has to be used for illness, vacation, funerals (except immediate family), family care, holidays not on the company schedule. We can carry over 5 days. We can also buy an additional 6 days.

 

[Katy Belle]

DH gets zero sick days. If they are sick, they should stay home. This is a very, very, large company and I've heard very little about people abusing this policy. I imagine there is some kind of a cap on it...but DH has taken 2 sick days in 21 years, so I wouldn't know! However...if you need to stay home with a sick kid, you have to use a day of vacation. No sick days, no personal days are given, just vacation days.

 

[Pakey]

We get 5 sick days per year and 15 vacation days but they can be used any way you want.

Production employees have the option of cashing out unused sick leave at the end of each year; non-exempt administrative employees carry their unused days over. As a result, production employees rarely call in sick or miss work while administrative non-exempt employees use all of theirs. There is not one person on my staff of non-exempt administrative employees who currently has more than 8 hours of accrued sick time; they use it as soon as it's earned. I did not have one week in all of 2009 where my entire staff worked the full week. I'm hoping attendance is better in 2010.

 

[emma'smom]

I teach at a college and we don't have any specified "sick days". The general rule is to just make sure your class is covered or announced as cancelled if you are just out for a day or so. If it is going to be longer, than it really should be covered. In this case, I might ask a colleague to step in, arrange for a guest speaker, etc. At any rate, as long as everything is covered....then being out isn't really noticed even. I'm also one who would still continue to check my email even if I'm not feeling great...so I'm still attending to work at least at a minimal level.

 

[kirbsam]

my employees get 3 sick days per year. they dont carrry over and if they dont use them, i pay them out at the end of the year.

 

[jodifla]

DH gets 7 sick days a year; I get none as a contractor.

But at my last job, we got 5 days each year and they didn't carry over. But when I had someone sick more than that, we just worked it out. I never docked anyone's pay because they were sick. They worked an extra day down the road, or, if they salaried, we counted some of their unpaid OT toward it.

 

[IDoDis]

I'm also a public school teacher and get 10 paid sick days a year plus 1 personal leave day. If I use less than 5 sick days in one school year, I get an extra personal leave day the next year. I used up my sick leave when I gave birth to both my kids, but now my youngest is 10 1/2 yrs old and I've built back up over 600 hours of sick leave (that's close to 60 days). I usually only call in sick one to three days a year (always to take care of one of my own sick kids). Last year I had also accrued 5 personal days total, but finally had to start using those because the district wouldn't let me accrue any more until I started using some of those personal days. Since we don't get paid for extended leave illnesses, saving up these sick days is like an insurance policy to me should I ever have to have some kind of major surgery or some horrible illness where I'd be out of work for several weeks.

 

[jlima]

I work for a non profit. Zero sick days.

 

[rascalmom]

DH is self-employed, so zero days.

He gives his staff 4 sick days per year (one per quarter). If they don't use them, they are paid for 5 days at the end of the year.

I've been a stay-at-home mom for some time, but my last employer did not offer sick pay to salaried employees. We had comp time for unpaid overtime & sick time was traded out for that.

 

[susykt4]

What about if you need to have surgery or something? I've only been at my current job just under 4 years and I have 6 weeks of sick time banked that carries over forever and increases every year. It also is quickly earned back if you use it. I also get 3 weeks of vacation every year as well as "E-time" instead of overtime. The vacation must be used and the E-time must be down to 80 hours by a certain date or they have to pay. NOBODY gets paid. But man, I sure do get a lot of paid time off!

 

[AnnaS]

When DH worked he had zero sick days, zero personal days and zero vacation days.

I work p/t and have 3 sick days and 3 personal days (plus my vacation time).

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I am amazed that some people get 10-12 sick days a year. If you are really sick that many days every year, you have one weak immune system.

Then we'd have less posts about people complaining about people coming into work and spreading all of their germs.

DH old job, he got PTO that totaled about 4 work weeks. New job--I have no idea.

Job prior to that--salaried gets whatever needed pretty much while hourly accrued it at a rate of 4 hours per month.

 

[golfgal]

I work of a major corporation. We have PTO - personal time off - to be used as sick days, personal days, and vacation. Full time employees start with 10 days PTO per year. If, for example, you take two weeks of vacation in the summer, you have no more days for the remainder of the year. Any sick days then would be un-paid.

A lot of companies around here are going to PTO vs vacation days, sick days, etc. It is a lot more efficient I think.

DH's old job they didn't have a set number of sick days, it was just left up to your manager. As long as you were not abusing the system you got whatever time off you needed if you were sick. They did end up firing one person for abusing that system though.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

We, also, have 0 sick days per se.

We have PTO, they do divide it into 3 personal days and the rest vacation but you can use that if you are off sick. I have 25 days since I've been with the company almost 30 years, but we haven't had actual sick days for a very long time.

DH doesn't get sick days either. 2 years ago he had major eye surgery and was off work 3 weeks. That really stunk, because it was at the end of the year, he didn't have any vacation left, and wasn't off long enough for disabilty.

 

[Uuaww]

I'm a fed, but new to system so I have 13 days of sick leave a year and 13 days of vacation leave. Carry over max for each is 45 days I believe.

 

[NMAmy]

I get 12 days of sick leave per year that roll over indefinitely. Half of the days may be used for family care of a child, spouse, or parent. Now that dd is grown and my mom has been healthy, I've got quite a bit accumulated.

 

[wdwmom2]

I get 152 hours of ALT(acquired leave time), approx 19 days, per year. I use that time whether I am sick, on vacation, or just want to add a few extra hours to my paycheck.