Vacation Days/PTO

[dclpluto]

I get 6 weeks of vacation and 5 pto days. So seven weeks total. This year I’m only taking 2 weeks and going to get the money for the rest of them unless something comes up.

 

[piglet1979]

I get a total of 5 weeks of PTO a year to use as I feel I need it. We don't get the full bank of time at the beginning of the year. We accrue it with each pay check. I keep an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of my time. We are able to roll over 2 weeks (80 hours). I do roll over this time as my just in case I need extra time. Since I have the time banked I use my 5 weeks a year. This past year when my daughter had a concussion and going to the doctor almost weekly, (and losing my mind trying to keep up with DD, DS with soccer and band and work) I was reminded by my boss and husband, that I saved this for the just in case and to use what I needed. I still ended the year with about 75 hours to roll over.

 

[aprilgail]

I got 5 weeks vacation, 12 sick days, 6 personal days and 13 paid holidays per year and I took every single one of those days every year. The year I retired I had to squeeze taking all that into 5 months since I retired June 1. For the most part I enjoyed all that time off (unless I was really sick on a day I used the sick day but that was not that often!)

 

[BrianL]

We earn and bank them, never lose them, but they max out at some point. I am very often maxed out because I jsut can't manage to take the time. They do give me a lot sinc eI am going on 20 years with the company.

 

[maxaroni]

I get 4 weeks PTO, that is sick/vacation, personal all lumped together. I take every second owed to me as we can’t carry it over. As a matter of fact, we need to fill out vacation calendars in January for the full year. We can move them around if no one else has off the days you want to move. Several years ago, NJ mandated to have everyone have sick time. The company worked around that stating that you could schedule 3 weeks and have 1 week unscheduled. So basically, no sick time as they just changed what they call the PTO.

All my prior jobs, it was broken into sick, vacation, personal.

 

[marthachick]

I get 25 days a year right now for vacation and 12 days a year for sick leave. We also get paid holidays. If we don’t use all of our vacation days in a year, they roll to sick time, which we can apply to retirement. I used all of my vacation days last year. I plan to retire in 4.5 years.

 

[KPeterso]

I am on a PTO plan. I earn 28 days of PTO each year to use for vacation and illness. We can carry over all of our PTO year over year (only because I am in CA, other states can only carry over 40 hours). We do cap out at 1.5X yearly allotment which is 330 hours. I refuse to hit the cap, but have not been below 200 hours in several years now. My last check was 277 hours available. And I always take at least 3 full weeks off each year (week in March and 2 weeks in September to go to WDW) plus a bunch of other individual days. It just never seems to make much of a dent in the amount I have on hand. If I leave the job though, it will be paid out.

 

[js]

If your job gives you paid time off, do you use all of it?

A report on local news this morning says 75% of people leave Vacation Days unused, an average of 5 days.

My PTO is still separated into holiday, vacation, sick, and personal days.

I take every millisecond of vacation, personal, and holiday time off. I get 10 sick days, but rarely use them all. Usually I take 7 or 8 sick days, mostly for “Mental Health.”

Some reasons given for not taking all eligible vacation days are:
1. Too much work to make up upon return.
2. Afraid of appearing as a slacker that would hinder promotion opportunities.
3. Company culture frowns upon or discourages employees using their full allotment.
4. Those who can roll over PTO are saving it for later.

I get:
23 vacation/personal days
20 sick days
1 Week between Christmas and New Years Day
PTO holidays

I use every day of my vacation/personal days, sometimes more LOL If we don't use our vacation we loose it.
I use about 10-15 sick days, thank goodness haven't been sick to use them

However, my dd is an attorney in NYC at a big law firm. They get unlimited time off with pay but she/her husband (also an attorney) takes a day here and there with one week maybe a year. This year, they are doing two weeks for their honeymoon in June and she is adding three days onto a weekend at Disney with her son, my mom and I in October and that is a huge deal for her.

Last year, she took I think 2 days off for her wedding and a day here and there.
She loves her vacations and took whenever she use to get the chance. She wishes they were told they have this many days and to use it instead of the unlimited since no one takes it or wants to take it just for reasons you mention above.

 

[bella_and_the_beast]

I get 12 days annual leave, 12 sick days, 5 personal days, and 14 holidays. I use all the annual leave, but it would roll over if I didn't. I don't really use the sick leave, but they roll over as well and I think gets paid out 50% if you leave. If I earned more vacation time, I would take it. I think based on tenure the max I can eventually earn is 15 days a year, which I wish was more.

 

[dez1978]

I get 21 (168 hours) days of vacation time per year. 120 hours of sick time and 13 paid holidays. I can have a max of 338 hours of vacation time on the books before I lose it. I try to keep 100 hours min on the books of both. Currently I have 240 hrs of vacation and about 300 of sick time. When I had my youngest 7 years ago I had to use all my time on maternity leave so it's taken me a long time to build that up while having little kids.

I take 2 week long vacations (ish) per year plus a day or 2 here and there.

 

[kdonnel]

I have always used all my available PTO. In the past I generally had:

• 10-11 company holidays
• 2-3 personal choice holidays
• 15-20 vacation days
• 0-5 sick days

This year will be interesting and I am not sure how it will work out. This year I have:

• 11 company holidays
• 2 personal choice holidays
• 15 PTO days to use between January 1st and March 31st
• Unlimited PTO days from April 1st to December 31st

My plan is to take a total of 20-25 days of PTO this year.

 

[DrJenski]

We have one bank of PTO for planned/unplanned/ill time off (20 days for me), plus six company holidays and one floating holiday. I do WFH and always have for this company. PTO is use-it-or-lose-it, though we’re allowed to rollover up to five days to the next year. The past two years, we were allowed to rollover up to eight days due to the pandemic. I prefer to use up all my PTO in the year I earned it.

 

[disneychrista]

I currently get 15 sick days, 15 vacation days and 7 personal days a year plus 13 paid holidays.

Last year I took 3 “full” sick days plus hours here and there for appointments. Sick days roll over with no max. When you retire they get added to yours “service time” for calculation of pension benefits. We are only in January and I’ve already taken 6 days this year.

I took all 7 personal days because those go away at the end of the year. We are closed on all the holidays so took those too.

I did not take a single vacation day in 2021. Vacation time rolls over until you reach a max. I will reach that max in June this year. I am taking a week off in May for my birthday and again in October to stay under the max. We used to be able to cash out vacation time but they stopped that last year due to budget.

Honestly there is only so much time one can take off, especially when not traveling.

 

[GreatLakes]

I take a lot of time off but have to much to really use all of it. I also have a position where I can just randomly take half days when I need without using any PTO so that helps. My first few years I didn't take a lot and we can roll over a pretty high amount so I've at just under 70 days worth of PTO right now.

Now that I have a kid we try to take him 4 or 5 places a year (pandemic not withstanding) so I use more. I also sometimes just work from remote locations so I can both travel and not burn PTO. We do this a lot visiting friends and family.

 

[mikehn]

The whole world was pretty much shut down until recently, so people didnt really have any place to go to use up their time. Besides, with remote work, many are able to multi task without having to take time off.

 

[CallieMar]

I accrue 7 hours vacay, which goes up a by an hour at certain milestones, and 8 hours sick every month. I started this job right before we went into lockdown, plus I got 2 furlough days every month for about a year, so it’s all just been piling up. It all rolls over and the sick time can be used towards length of service at retirement. In normal times I try to keep a couple weeks of vacation banked for anything unexpected and use the rest.

 

[butterscotchcollins]

PSA: Take every minute of PTO you earn, no one on their death bed has ever regretted living their life and enjoying their time instead of working.

That said I ALWAYS take my earned time because I’m not in CA so it doesn’t roll over forever and my company doesn’t have a payout in the calendar year (it’s use it or lose it). Too much work to be done in my absence? Not my problem - hire more people or have more realistic expectations on deliverables.

Currently in addition to 13 paid holidays I get 28 days in 1 bank, and this year I will also be taking 16 weeks of maternity leave at full pay which is (sadly) incredibly generous in the US. At my previous company I had unlimited PTO (which meant it never accrued so it never had to be paid out - smart) but I still took about as many days as I had (25) before I was eligible for unlimited.

Take. Your. Time.

 

[Mysterian]

I will take some extended PTO for holidays. I was saving some for Disney before the pandemic.

Other days, if I have an appointment or something I need to do that would interfere with work hours, I'll take off for that too.
If we're sick for a day or three, we have to use PTO. Longer than three days, we have to get a doctor's note.

We also get three free PTO days for bereavement.

I have 41 sick days accumulated, but we can only use those if we're out with COVID, hospitalized, or recovering from surgery.

 

[sam_gordon]

I think I've "lost" ~3 days of PTO/vacation over the last 31 years because I couldn't take them.

We used to have a separate pool of vacation & sick time and the sick time would roll over (max of 30). Now it's all one bucket, and nothing rolls over. I usually end up taking days at the end of the year just to use them.

I wish we could either roll over unused days or get a payout for unused days (even if you want to cap the amount), but alas, it's not to be.

 

[dez1978]

Do most people get their alloted time all pooled at the beginning of the year or have to build it up? Like I earn 14 hr vacation time per month and cannot take it until it's earned. I can accrue ip to a certain amount before I lose it. I think 338 hrs, idk I've never been close. But thats honestly one of the big things that keeps me here instead of going to work at the nuke plant. There I'd start off with 6 days off in a year and have to work back up to a large amount. But there its given at the start of the year to use anytime.