How Many Vaca., Sick, Personal Days Do you get..

[powellrj]

I have worked 9 years for a large company with over 15,000 employees. I get 3 weeks vacation, 1 week sick days and 2 floating holidays. We use to get PTO, but they changed it a few years ago and broke it out like it is now.

 

[Mr. Pig]

25 days vacation
2 days personal holiday
3 sick days
per year
That is for 20+ years of service. They have recently cut back to four weeks but at least I am grandfathered in. I think many companies are starting to cut back on paid time off to cut costs. You will also find smaller companies cannot afford as much paid time off as larger ones. If they are good companies they make it up in other ways.

 

[barkley]

If you work full time:
1. How many paid vacation days per year do you get?
2. How many paid Personal days per year do you get?
3. How many paid sick days do you get?

We own a family business with my parents, two sisters, and brother. My one sister has nothing to do with it other than having to pay taxes. My other Sister, Brother, BIL, and my husband all work there full time(40hrs/wk). I work there part-time with my dad and another non-related person.
Our time off goes like this:
3 weeks (15 days of vacation cannot take more that 10 days in a row) and 3 personal days. No sick leave at all. Any funerals or other days of the like are taken out of your vacation. (Part-timers get no paid vacation or sick)
We are just trying to figure out what other employers give for vacation, sick, and personal time off.
My DH and I don't think that we get enough and the rest of them think we get too much time off.
Working for family is a pain!
So what do you get for time off?
Thanks,

retired now but when i worked-

new full time hires walked in with:

all federal holidays paid
15 days paid vacation
12 days paid sick (could use for family sick as well as berevement)
3 days "floating holiday" (24 hours that could be broken up for any use)

after 10 years the vacation would up to 20 days, increasing up to 25 and 30 by year 20.

when i became a supervisor and exempt from overtime pay i received an additional 50 hours per year of "managment time"-which was 50 hours i could take for any reason-in a block or hour by hour to kind of compensate for those times i worked late. i also did'nt have to wait for my anniversary dates for my vacation to increase-when you hit year 6 of employment you got an additional day, year 7 another additional day-so by the time you hit your 10 year anniversary you were at that extra week a year.

we had 2 types of part-timers-

ones that receive no benefits what-so-ever (under 20 hours per week), and those that recived pro-rated (and they might work less than 20 hours per week; if it was a position that called for special skills and paid well it could be a cost savings for the employer to hire them part-time with a pro-rated benefit package). the prorated staff got vacation, sick and float in relation to their work schedual-20 hours a week got 50% accruals, and likewise-if their schedualed day off was a federal holiday they only received the pay they would have gotten if they normaly worked that day (so if they normaly worked 4 hours on labor day they got paid 4 hours, BUT if they normaly did'nt work mondays they did'nt get holiday pay).

could only accrue (roll over year to year) up to 3 times the vacation that you were eligible to annualy earn (so a newer hire could only accrue 9 weeks)-over that it was "use it or lose it". floating time was "use it or lose it" in a calendar year. sick could accrue as much as you wanted but unless you were going to retire and use it to add to your service time (to increase pension) there was no financial advantage (no cash out of any accruals except vacation and that was only upon quit/termination/retirement).

sick leave-after 3rd consecutive day medical note required (at option of supervisor), after 14 days (2 calendar weeks) mandatory application for state disability insurance/mandatory application for leave of absence/fmla.

 

[NHdisneylover]

DH is an engineer with some pretty in demand specialties. You used to negotiate for extra vacation instead of pay increases when starting with a new company or at review time (while in the U.S.). He has never had a set number of sick days; it has always been as needed just don't abuse it (which he does not). His last job in the U.S. included:

1 personal day (had to take this within a onth of your birthday)
20 days paid vacation
9 paid holidays

Here in German we love the time off. He gets
30 paid vacation days (though nearly 10 have to be taken around Christmas in his office)
up to 14 paid holidays (but if a national holiday happens to fall on the weekend then you do not get another day to make up for it)

 

[Epcot4Me]

My last job in the US was 20 days PTO- vacation & sick leave and no personal days.

The job I started last week in Switzerland offers 30 days vacation, unlimited sick leave, 10 holidays, and 1 day for moving each year. Plus my office closes between Christmas and New Years' and so that time is off as well.

Here it is the law that you need to get at least 4 weeks vacation and the 1 day for moving each year. I also just found out that legally you need to take at least one 2 week vacation (10 days) per year or your employer is fined. I love Europe

 

[golfgal]

Dh gets 25 days of paid time off to use however. It is a GREAT system. He is rarely sick, maybe has missed 10 days of work in the past 22 years because of illness, 7 of those days were from a bad case of influenza 16 years ago. He can use his time however he wants. I HIGHLY recommend doing this, especially for a small company. You never have to worry about people taking sick days when they aren't really sick and you know exactly how much you will have for salary expenses since there isn't a variable "sick time". If you combine the PTO with short and long term disability you cover most of your bases for salary coverage for your employees.

Technically I don't get any "paid" time off since I work for myself but I can take whatever I want, whenever I want.

 

[shortbun]

As a school bus driver, we get no vacation days because we have a ttl of 3 months off during the year. We do get 2 personal days each year that can be carried over and 15(yep!) sick days. If we use more than 8, we get conferenced unless it's due to hospitalization or a death in the family.

 

[sbell111]

I work for the State and I get 26 days of vacation and 12 days of sick leave per year.

Clearly, I work for the wrong state.

We get 12 vacation days and 12 sick days.

 

[NC State]

I have been with the State of NC for 22 years.

 

[Boo'sMom]

I get 22 days of vacation per year (and must be used or lost), 2 personal days, and unlimited sick and bereavement.

 

[mickeymedic]

I get 200 hours of PTO. So, 5 weeks total. This is all-inclusive for sick days, personal time and vacation.

 

[Sandy22]

I get 20 vacation days, 15 sick days, up to 5 bereavement days, 2 personal days and up to 5 family days (for sick kids and appointments) and all statutory holidays.

 

[Took]

I get 12 sick days (I'm pretty sure that's it--I rarely use mine), 2 personal days, bereavement days according to relationship, jury time is paid, and I never work summers (I teach at a CC). I've been w/ my employer 8+ years.

 

[metalis4ever]

I get 4 weeks of Vacation
I get 3 Personal Holiday days
I get Unlimited Paid Sick days (within reason 3-5 per 6 month period) I get fully Paid Short Term disability if I have surgery or if I have an illness that keeps me out of work for more than 5 consecutive days.

I Love my Job All that vacation time is why I am able to go to Disney for 10 days every year wooooooo!!!!

 

[momx2]

I'm self-employed doing freelance work, so no benefits for me.

DH has been at his job w/ a Fortune 500 company for 20 years and has 4 weeks vacation (max allowed now), and 5 sick/personal days. None can be carried over to the next year or paid if unused.

For those who get more than 5 or 6 sick/personal days per year, are those private or public sector jobs? Anyone in this area who has more than 5 or 6 either works for a small firm still offering generous benefits (rare), or is in the public sector. I have to say I find it staggering that the public sector still offers such a generous benefit when most taxpaying workers don't have anything close.

Most public sector jobs don't pay as well as private sector jobs, so it is a trade-off, more money or more time off.

I work for the state, 15 years, and I have the following:

21 vacation days (1-5 yrs.= 12 days; 5-10 yrs.=15 days; 10-15 yrs.=18 days; 15-20 yrs.=21 days; 20 yrs. plus = 24 days);

12 sick days (one per month);

11 1/2 paid holidays and paid unlimited jury duty;

no berevement, must use sick, vacation or any accured comp. time.

Comp. time is given to certain salaried employees inlieu of overtime pay on an hour per hour basis.

 

[ead79]

I get 10 days of vacation time per year. I also get 8 paid company holidays each year.

For sick days, I accrue 1 day per month I've worked there, so I have a good number of them.

Bereavement leave is separate.

 

[pezheadmeg]

I'm a retail lifer and I end up with:

15 Days Vacation.
10 Floating Holidays.

It's my option if I want to work the holiday or take a float. I always take the float Labor Day. The other 3 I can go either way on whether I work it or not. Bervevement is not counted in the PTO and Jury Duty is paid.

The kicker--I'm a Department Store Visual person--Today is my last paid day off until Thanksgiving. Otherwise I can't claim any time until the middle of January. Guess what--it's X-mas in my world.

 

[jessily]

I get 5 weeks of PTO per year which includes everything (sick time, vacation, holidays). I figure about 10 of those days are "floating holidays" used for Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. So I have about 3 weeks to use for vacation and sick time.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Edited after asking hubby!

They start at 4 weeks PTO then get 1 more week per year of service maxing out to 8 weeks PTO.

They get their allocation each January. Mid-year hires are pro-rated.

He was hired 2007, so should be up to 6 weeks now. It includes all holidays, but he can work those days as he often does. My only "mandatory" days off for him are Thanksgiving and Christmas--all other holidays I don't mind if he works b/c unused time at the end of the year is cashed out and paid in Feb/Mar.

 

[DisneyLover83]

If you work full time:
1. How many paid vacation days per year do you get?
2. How many paid Personal days per year do you get?
3. How many paid sick days do you get?

My DH gets 1.33 days per month for time off, there is no distinction between vacation/sick or personal. He also gets 10 paid holiday days per year.

I see you are from Baraboo, WI, I grew up in Reedsburg, and love heading up that way to visit family!