How much annual leave do you get a year.

[Caskbill]

I get 365 days a year and 366 days in leap years

Unfortunately though I don't get any pay checks

Retired, living on pension and 401k plan, IRA, and savings.

Nationwide, I would say that most Americans get as a minimum 4-weeks off during the year: 2-weeks standard vacation and about 10 holiday days (which equals the other 2-weeks) Many also get sick days that if not used, can be used for vacation days.

Many will take vacations that give time off but don't use many regular vacation days. For example, if a person gets Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving, that's 2-holiday days. Use three vacation days for the Mon-Tue-Wed, add the two weekends, and you've got a 9-day period with no work.

Similar things are commonly done around the other holidays including Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Christmas and New Year's holidays.


People working part-time will probably get less,and possibly none at all.

 

[MzCohen]

Being a Teacher sure has it rewards. I get 10 weeks off in the summer, all legal Hoildays, 4 days at Thanksgiving, 10 at Christmas, 4 day winter recess in Feb. and Easter vacation.
Although I also take classes in the summer, trying to take as many as I can this winter so I can enjoy a nice relaxing summer 2004 with my family. We plan on spending a week at WDW next August.

 

[JohnathanS]

I'm fortunate in that I work for myself as a real estate appraiser, and have quite a few really good clients who like my work so much that they don't mind my frequent vacations

I just work extra hard before I leave, cramming in appointments, and then get to enjoy several vacations a year. I think this year, I will have taken about 50-60 vacation days.

 

[StevieD]

6 weeks here, plus 10 holidays. Unfortunately, I don't often get to use it all and it's use it or lose it for me.

 

[Chadm]

I work a 7 & 7 schedule, which means exactly what it sounds like. I work one week and then I'm off the next. Since I work 12 hour shifts for my 7 days, I actually work a minimum of 84 hours a week, which is more than most people work in a 2 week period. The overtime benefits are very nice. Basically I'm off every other week, or about 6 months total. My wife gets 3 weeks paid vacation a year. However, she only works 4 days a week, so this stretches her vacation days a little farther.

Neither of us get sick pay or holidays off. If we are sick enough to miss work, we don't get paid. Holidays aren't too bad because if we are scheduled to work them, we both get substantial holiday pay for our trouble.

Obviously our schedules make for easy vacation planning. We can (and do) schedule all of our vacations for the least busy times of the year when the weather is the most pleasant. Also, our schedules make it easy to take last minute, short trips with little planning.

You can see why DVC works so well for us. We can get the maximum advantages out of it.

 

[flexsmom]

DH and I both work for the same company - we each get 25 days, plus 8 company holidays that align with some of the Federal holidays. However, if we were to take all of that personal time (the 25 days), we would not meet our "billable hour" requirements, so we would probably be fired! I used all of my personal time for maternity leave (and they can't fire me for that!), but we'll never take the equivalent of 5 weeks off in any given year.

 

[gtrist4life]

I get 15 days, plus 11 for holidays all paid. No scheduled sick days, but if on the rare times I have been sick, it's paid.

Been with the same company for 15 years and in 3 more I'll get an 5 more days. WooHoo!

DW works two days a week and gets nada paid, but she can schedule days around our vacation.

 

[crisi]

3 weeks.

 

[eva]

We have an issue with this at our house. My husband has been with his company for 17 years and gets 5 weeks plus major holidays. I have only been at my job for 3 years and only receive 2 weeks with holidays. What I do to get extra time is volunteer for every Saturday that becomes available to use the comp time towards vacation. We took 10 days in May for a cruise and a stay at BCV that only cost me 5 vacation days out of the ten. So now I still have five days for the year. I'm thinking of using comp time for a shorter trip this fall and then banking the extra week into 2004. We can actually rollover 3 weeks a year at the company I work for.

 

[dvc_john]

I retired a year ago, but before that I got 25 days per year, plus 2 personal days, plus 9 holidays. We had a stepped vacation acrual system based on years of service, from 6 days the first year, 10 days for years 1 to 5, and so on up to 25 days starting the 23rd year.

 

[ZachnElli]

My dh is suppose to get 2 weeks vacation, 2 weeks personal/sick. BUT, it is frowned upon when he takes more than 5 days at a time by his boss (not the head of the company). He doesn't officially get any holidays off either. If a client calls or his boss wants a report done, he has to do it. He's worked several major holidays (never Christmas though!). It's just his boss, not the company that's a pain about it. Most of you here are very lucky! Even on vacation my dh is on the phone, Maui, WDW, where ever!

 

[TDC Nala]

20 days accrued leave, partial leave carryover from last year, separate accrued sick leave, 10 holidays, and I work 9 hours a day and have every other Monday off.

I do a lot of weekend jaunts.

 

[off2disney]

My club closes for two days during Thanksgiving, and the last two weeks in December, so that's when I take vacation. I don't know what holidays are because I usually wind up working on them (and being salaried, I don't get holiday pay). We don't have official sick leave but I've probably missed 3 or 4 days in the last four years without penalty.

 

[JVL1018]

I am a stay at home mom so I get no days off.
My husband gets 17 days to use however he sees fit-->vacation, personal or sick. He uses maybe 1 sick day a year and the rest is vacation or personal days.
He's an assistant controller for a company so he usually gets 2 or 3 days as a sort of bonus come April when they are done with their tax/auditing thing at work.
He gets 8 paid holidays..and if one of those(4th of July, Christmas etc) falls on a Thursday they get the Friday off as well.

1 more year til he gets an extra weeks vacation, yay!

 

[JVL1018]

Originally posted by dvc_john
I retired a year ago, but before that I got 25 days per year, plus 2 personal days, plus 9 holidays. We had a stepped vacation acrual system based on years of service, from 6 days the first year, 10 days for years 1 to 5, and so on up to 25 days starting the 23rd year.

Every job my husband has had has been that way. He needs to get to 5 years before that elusive 3rd week of vacation, however he keeps leaving his jobs(onward and upward) right around year 4. Grrr. But he has to do it to move up careerwise
Next time he gets a new job, he will have that 3rd week as part of his criteria for taking the job.

I do have to say that though he doesn't get a ton of days(roughly 28 or so inc holidays) he only works 9-5(though usually goes in around 8:30) with an hour for lunch..and comes home for lunch(and is usually home by 5:20 in the evening).
They are fine with him doing whatever he wants, as long as his work gets done...and he has a great work ethic, so no worries about him shirking his duties.

Of course Jan-April he works his butt off getting ready for the auditors, but even so, I love that this job that affords him so much family time, though I certainly want him to get that extra week! LOL

 

[AnnaS]

My dh works for a major contractor in NYC. He gets no paid sick days or personal days. No vacation time. No holidays - and since they do not work, no pay. Depending on the company he is working for and how long he has been on that job they might pay him for the day. He only takes off when absolutely necessary (daughter surgery, special am graduation, etc.) We just took 12 days for cruise and OKW stay - they paid him for "one" day. Excited yet. (The company or union (not sure which) has just started to deduct 50 cents or so per hour from his wages and at the end of the year will mail him a "vacation check" to save or use when he needs it. Places to go, no time.

I have been working part-time for the same company for 11 years - I get 4 weeks paid vacation (25 hours each), 4 personal days (20 hours) and three sick days (12 hours). I also take an extra week here and there with no pay every now and then.

 

[eva]

So far I'm noticing that the members here on the DIS seem to have more vacation time than the average American. I found an article from a 2000 issue of Time that said that Americans average 13 days. I wonder if that is a trend for DVC and not just this board?

Boy, in Sweden it is legally manadated that employers give at least 32 days plus holidays.

 

[WolfpackFan]

I get 5 weeks of vacation each year, but having said that I usually only take 2-3 weeks a year. This is because where I work your sick leave serves as actual service time when you retire and allows you to retire early. And at the end of each December any vacation over 240 hours on the books is moved to sick leave. So I never take sick leave (I take regular vacation instead) and try to minimize vacation I take. Right now I am planning on retiring on June 1, 2005, thanks to about 1 year and 5 months worth of sick leave.

 

[Pig Pen]

I earn 11 hours leave per two-week payperiod which must be used for vacation, sick, and holidays. (I work in a hospital so lots of people work on holidays - this helps them out).

However we have short term and long term disability programs which kick in after so many days so you don't use ALL your time up if you have surgery, etc.

We can only hold 150% of our annual accrual - at that time you must use it or lose it.

I think it works out to 31 days of leave accrual per year.

 

[sandieb]

Hi - I am a nurse, and we get "PTO" - paid time off. That time is used for vacation, sick, and personal days. We get 7 holidays in addition. They "pay out" any time not used at the end of the year. I get 5 weeks off due to > 10 years of service. If we are sick for > 7 days we go on short term disability @ 100% of salary for 6 months. Nurses can also squeeze hours in one week and take less PTO the following week - this helps stretch out vacation times. Sandie