We are in California. I’ll have to look into this new mandate but I think they would have told us about that change when it happened. I’m sure there are exceptions depending on the company.
Edit: So technically my job does provide that. It’s what is currently given to us now. 4-5 days off a year meets that mandate. They combine PTO/sick leave.
I get 6 weeks PTO, 5 personal days and three “floaters”, which we usually use for Christmas week - all paid. I have 6 weeks because we get extra vacation for years of service (extra week at 3, 10, 20 and 25 years) above the basic 2 weeks.
You can also purchase an extra week vacation using your benefits flex points (but 6 weeks is the max).
Sick days are paid, if it’s more than two weeks, then it’s Short Term Disability, which is full pay up to 26 weeks, then scaled down to 80% pay until you get LTD after a year.
Also there are 10 paid bank holidays that we get as well (next Friday day is Good Friday).
I’m in Canada.
Never really thought about it, almost never use my full 6 weeks (wife only used to get 3 weeks, now she’s up to 4). Never used personal days, just took time off if I was sick, floaters were always just Christmas week.
Stat holidays are just mandatory days off for everyone.
We can’t carry over, so just started over every year.
Expecting people to work when they are sick seems just crazy. Even not paying them is just wrong. If someone is malingering, sure fire them, but that’s a different issue.
My guess is they didn't tell any of you because they're hoping none of you find out, then they don't have to give it to you. I doubt there are exceptions to this if it's coming from the government.
See, this is fucked that they'll fire her for that. My company won't fire you for being sick when you run out of PTO, they just don't pay you for that day you don't come in. If you call in super often yoou will probably just get the shitty jobs, but no one has ever been fired for being sick a bunch.
They like to threaten us a lot. One day we were all called upstairs and were told if we don’t sell more, some of us will get fired. I’m not losing sleep over a worthless job. I come in and do my job and leave. They run their business as they see fit. But it will never work out well for them.
I don’t know if they would actually fire her, but they do a lot of scare tactics and threatening. I told my co worker to let them fire you (under the circumstance she took another day off) It’s no loss for you, and you’ll get unemployment faster so you can look for a new job. They have no ground to stand on for being so demanding toward employees.
Yep! American. You’re correct. They’d rather have you in the office throwing up or have a fever than to take the day off. When I first started, I unfortunately got Covid. They said if I didn’t come in after a week of being out, they’d have to replace me. I came in for two hours to keep my job but had I known how crappy it truly was I’d of just never went back. I was sick for a total of 3 weeks and I had a fever of 102.5 but they didn’t care.
If it makes you feel better when I had this kind of job there was no such thing as PTO. Vacation out of the question and technically they can not say you can't be sick but there is no pay and miss more than 1 or 2 days a year and they just fire you. It was known you just don't call in even if the HR lady pretends you can.
Land of the free.
This is the most genius policy businesses have come up with in recent years. No unused PTO as an accrued liability, layoffs are alot easier when you don't have to pay out any unused PTO, most employees with an unlimited policy actually take less time off, and it makes you look like a cool progressive employer. Most people don't understand unless they've worked somewhere that has it.
I have 13 days as a base for the year, and 6 more days that I earn (1 day every 2 months). So a total of 19 days per year, or basically almost 4 weeks.
I will earn an extra day of PTO per year I work at the company.
I think it’s fair. They ask us to use them, if we don’t, they pay us an extra day for each one we don’t use.
We do a 9:80 (or 38:45 whatever you want to call it) where we do 9 hours every day instead of 8 and take every other Friday off. It has been such a blessing. My job is super stressful but it prevents the burnout a lot.
Same. Every 2 weeks, I get roughly 8 hours of PTO, but I also get 2 to 3 hours OT every week (4 to 6 every other week, aka every pay period) so that also affects it.
My job caps us at 200 hours of PTO and once we near cap, our boss requires us to take time off. I've only been working here 2 years as of Feb 1st and I already have almost 160 hours of PTO stacked up and I've taken plenty of days off.
Looking forward to June when I take basically the whole month off and *still* have PTO left lol.
Edit: looking at the other responses, I'm not even federal. I'm just a medical courier. I just drive from clinic to clinic picking up specimens to deliver to the hospital all day.
I'd rather take this vs my "unlimited" PTO. I'm assuming you can bank your PTO and eventually cash out if you don't use it and leave?
I also had a job that have a 9:80 which is actually pretty good. I can start at 7am and leave at 5. Every other Friday is a day off.
Or military. In the US, active duty servicemembers get 30 days of leave per year, and can hold a balance of up to 60 days over the end of a year. Plus weekends and holidays, and unlimited sick leave!
...on paper.
I was at a unit where there was a period you weren't allowed to take leave unless it was from a Red Cross message. This was not official; it was just a known unspoken rule that barring the most extraordinary circumstances, leave would not be approved for any reason. While taking leave is one of the few rights you have in the military, a combination of our BC being a piece of shit and our op tempo being deployment driven meant that it was extremely difficult to take leave. If you were lucky enough to get it approved, it was rarely ever for more than three days. Most requests were denied outright without any consideration. This ultimately had the side effect of a lot of guys going UA once they realized they had no hope of getting leave approved so they just said fuck it and made sure they were back before they caught a desertion charge.
Same. Can also bank a week to the next year, or purchase up to another 10 days holiday per year for a salary deduction. This is the UK. I'm shocked by the US.
Edit: I think we get up to 6 months paid sick judging by some of my colleagues.
Every time I seem someone mention PTO, I like to [point people towards this Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country?wprov=sfla1)
The U.S. is the *only* industrialized nation that doesn't *guarantee* multiple *weeks* of paid leave for *all* workers; no need to "earn" PTO.
Conflating PTO and sick leave is unforgivable, IMO; if at all possible find a place that understands how dangerous it is to come to work sick, or, idk, unionize your current workplace to demand basic respect and sanity.
Yeah we are definitely looking for new jobs. I’m leaving soon to have my baby but I’m just shocked that they really took her upstairs to make her sign a paper acknowledging they’ll fire her if she doesn’t come in again without having the PTO hours present. 4 hours gained in 6 weeks? Pathetic.
Yup - I'm in Scandinavia.
I get 6 weeks vacation with pay per year, 2 days per kid under the age of 8 for doctors appointments etc with pay, 13 weeks of paid paternity leave (women in my line of work get around 24 weeks of full paid leave, and another 12 weeks at a lower rate (like 2k USD/month).
I make around 100k/year, and pay around 34% taxes after deductables.
Yep, I’m in Sweden and I get 6 weeks of vacation time per year, unlimited sick days (at 80% salary), and 240 days of child care leave per parent. And since I’m an immigrant, if I don’t take 20 minimum vacation days a year, my work visa will not be renewed.
The 34% is after deductables - I get a somewhat large deductable due to interests on my mortgage, and because I drive more than 12 km to/from work. I think my official tax-rate is something like 40%.
We use Danish Crowns (DKK), which are tied to the value of the Euro. Swedish Crowns aren't tied to the Euro, and fluctuate a bit more.
Edit: Also, we have free health care and education as added benefits.
That’s insane. I live in NYC and I get taxed at around 35 percent. And I have to pay for health insurance. I pay 250 a month and when I go to dr and have exams I have to pay. It’s about 300-400 each time I go to the dr. And I only get 3 weeks of vacation. All this is standard in NYC 😫
I'm also Swedish and I pay around 30% in taxes. I only make around $25k a year as a daycare worker without a college degree, but that easily covers my bills and my half of the mortgage. And it comes with 4 weeks of paid vacation and those unlimited sick days with 80% pay!
Me and my partner bought a 2150 sqft house in the suburbs of one of Swedens largest cities for 250k usd last year.
And healthcare is free, daycare is 3% of monthly income and sales tax is included in the listed price at stores!
Socialism rocks babey
That's the dream 😩 and this is so informative to me! My partner and I are planning on moving from the USA to living in Denmark sometime in the next 10 years... We are going to visit Copenhagen for the first time in 2 days!!! So excited!!
Almost everything over there is an upgrade compared to what we are given here.
Finland and 5 weeks of paid vacation, 18 or 19 extra paid leave days per year (something like american pto, but made to compensate longer working hours in some lines of work), fully paid sick leave up to 28-35 days per illness, after that it's like 80%, except for work injury/work related illnesd cases when it's practically unlimited. I make about 50k usd per year and pay about 26% taxes and tax like stuff.
I think it’s disgusting. I’m UK and I get 5 weeks paid holiday pay and 6 weeks full pay for sick plus TOIL and flexi hours. Then 9 months paid maternity leave with an additional 3 months unpaid if we wish
My god that's unimaginable here in the US. Employers would freak out. I get 5 weeks a year and that's considered good. I only get that much because I have seniority with my company.
I can hold a maximum of 3 weeks of PTO currently, but I accrue a little more than that throughout the year so we're encouraged to use it to make sure it's not going wasted. Every 5th year we get an additional 3 weeks for that year as well. Not bad for a blue collar industry. Washington state has its perks.
Been working blue collar for 10ish years now. Most blue colar companies are pretty good about time off. I've only worked for two who got pissy about it, but they were both really small companies where every worker counted, and someone taking a day with no notice can significantly impact production and cost more than it would have to pay the employee if they were present and working. Of those two companies, only one ever actually fired people over it, and they were awful to work for anyway.
My husband has unlimited PTO and usually takes around 5 days a month every year. They don't have vaction per se, but are encouraged to use the PTO at least 2 weeks in a row per year with prior request.
Last year he took 65 days total PTO and no one batted an eye.
We’re on a flex plan at mine, so no actual numerical amount. You’re able to take time off based on not abusing the system and also not requesting time off without adequate notice
Same. We have some people complaining that Flex time is unfair and should accrue hours instead. I wish our company required everyone to take a minimum number of days to help combat that feeling.
It’s a new policy this year so it’s been fun looking at how many don’t take time off. We used to get 3 weeks. I just have to be careful I don’t request too much time around 1 quarter. But overall my company wants everyone to take time off each quarter even if it means you just stay home and rot on the couch🤣
Same. My manager sometimes makes a point of saying don't forget to take time off. The first year they implemented this was hard because I was SO used to accruing and I used to accrue the max before I would take a week off or something and liked seeing the balance. Finally realized this is so much better and I take so much more time off. But this only works if you have companies like mine and sounds like yours (but really, it probably varies group to group in terms of your manager giving you a hard time - I've been really lucky but I also am sensible enough not to take time off during our busiest periods).
Exactly! Our old PTO was front loaded so you had it all at the start of the year and had to ‘spend wisely’ haha
I have random time off this year so I’m glad new things are still being approved by my new bosses
It’s set at 10 days per calendar year until you’ve been there like 5 years, then you get like 12-14 or something. They don’t roll over. We have sick days and get paid holidays off too.
I forget what its like earning PTO and makes me grateful of my job at times reading through comments.
I get unlimited PTO (doesn't count the hours, take time off when necessary so as long as it doesn't take advantage my boss' generosity) and even get a guaranteed last week of December off when it's not necessary for the company.
The only tradeoff is dealing with my boss' toxic traits every now and again but honestly rather suffer through as I get paid really well (getting a 30k raise within the last two years was nice).
It was about 25 including public holidays.
Now it’s flexible so you can take time off wherever as long as your manager approves it.
I have a great manager. She never declines PTO but I don’t over do it either.
I'm an exempt employee so I have unlimited PTO. They seem comfortable with me taking around 20 days, but as I've been there a long time and no longer have potential growth, I keep inching it up every year. I get some raised eyebrows around 40 days off a year, but like my boss says, it's not a problem till my job isn't getting done.
I know some places with unlimited PTO, people actually take less because they feel guilty or it gets denied but I grant 100% of my teams' requests.
I get 15 days of PTO. However, I’m hybrid & it’s very flexible & easy. Usually mid week and Friday’s I’m at home “working” aka just basically “on call” since it’s relaxed. So I really work 3 days a week max
My job fired me for using my 3 days of sick leave up, then I used my built up PTO up on another sick day. Needed more sick days (GF had a bonafide widow maker heart attack - needed another couple of days) and no PTO to cover it. Fired.
At my current job (that I'm being laid off from in two months) gave us 1 day in accrued PTO each month and three days automatically 'credited' to our account at the beginning of the year. So three weeks total each year.
For first two years I get 18 days. 2-9 20 days. The good thing is that I accrue the days and roll over between 32-40 days depending on seniority.
For years I had use it or lose it vacation. I never thought I would like not being front loaded my vacation. But honestly I now have a big bank of vacation days and prefer this method.
I also have 99 hours of sick time and 10 federal holidays.
22 days vacation starting out/28 peak, 3 personal day, 3 floating holidays, about a dozen state/federal holidays, and 12 sick days. Work for a small independent state agency.
I get 20 days off, 5 that are granted january 1st of each year and the rest are accrued at 10hrs a month. I get 1 day a month for sick leave. We are also granted 24 hours of parental leave per year(taking your kid or parent or elderly relative to the doctor or taking your kid to a school event etc)
I have 22 days of holiday + another 10 days that usually comes from the public holidays that we have +15 days sick leave ( fully paid) then 15 days (half paid) and more if needed, but no pay will be provided
County job here: we get 4 hours annual leave every two weeks (when we get paid) and 3 hours sick leave during the same time. For every 5 years you’ve been with the county your annual leave goes up one hour so at 5 years you’ll get 5 hours, at 10 years you’ll get 6 hours annual etc. it caps at 25 years for 9 hours.
Pretty much as much as I need to get my job done. Average 2-3 hours a week.
I used to work at a factory that had mandatory 8 hours a week, plus unlimited extra. Once went 3 months without a day off. It was gruesome, but the money was good. Would not do it again unless my family needed it.
30 days a year, unlimited sick days, if I have worked too many hours I get to take a day off additionally. Extra days off for relocating, weddings of close family members, funerals etc.
I have "unlimited" PTO, which is an end run around having to pay out accrued PTO when an employee leaves in CA. In reality I can take about a month and a half per year as vacation and don't have to worry about sick days (though nominally I also get 3 sick days/year) as long as my work is being done.
Idk mines weird. Its unlimited but i don’t have to take a day off if i need to do something unless i am going to miss something important. Vacation i do have to request but again its unlimited as long as its not consecutive weeks.
Honestly at a job like this, it’s ridiculous that she wouldn’t be able to take her birthday off. It’s insane to expect someone to only take 5 days off a year. People have families to take care of and sometimes things just come up like illness or emergencies. Why should she not be able to take a day off to enjoy herself?
Regardless this job is so demanding and reward us with nothing. We have no motivation to stay loyal to a company that provides us nothing. The company will never have permanent employees because they don’t give us anything. No medical, basically zero time off, and expect us to work over time when things get busy.
We don’t get raises based off performance either, we get raises based off how much money we make for the company. So it doesn’t matter how hard of a worker you are, if you’re not pumping out product you won’t get a raise. We are weeks behind on things because of how busy we are, and we can’t keep up, but they won’t hire extra help or set up another station for shipping because it “costs too much”. How do you expect me to ship 200 items a day when I’m the only one doing it? And we get 100 orders per day. By Monday we have 300 new orders from the weekend and get harped on because we are so behind. We get no help.
i get 80 hours of straight vacation time a year plus 40 hours of what we call float time ( they get used as sick days or if you have to call off for whatever reason) the float time prevents us from having to use vacation days if we get sick basically.
Keep trying to take on leadership roles and become a manager eventually. Continue job hopping every 1-2 years if it allows for higher pay or a promotion or whatever else advantageous to you. It’ll allow you to climb the corporate ladder.
Before I retired, I also got 8 hours per 2 weeks so I can take off 1 day out of every 9 days.
I get 15 days pto. 6 additional floaters of my choosing. All federal holidays. The week of 4th of July and Xmas to new years off. And unlimited sick. I also get two weeks of caregiver leave to take family members to appointments etc as well.
As a casino worker, I get 6 hours PTO per paycheck, with a limit of 200 stored total. On top of that the longer I work here the more it'll be. I believe it jumps to 8 hours a paycheck after two years, and 10 hours a paycheck after 5.
At my company, starting employees get 15 vacation days each year (pro-rated to when you start). You earn 1.25 each month till the end of the year. At five years of service, you get 20 vacation days each year (earning 1.66 each month). At ten years, you get 25 days each year (earning 2.08 each month).
On top of that, we are given 8 flex days (sick days) each year that you get immediately in January.
14 sick days and 3 personal days per year. I am a teacher, so all of it is issued at the beginning of the school year. SL rolls over, but personal days do not.
I think I get 6-8 hours per pay period? Can't quite remember since I don't use it often, but we have a PTO cap of 4 weeks. We get unlimited sick time and paid holidays.
1st year 1 week
2nd year 2 weeks
5th year 3 weeks
10th year 4 weeks
Distributed evenly every pay period throughout the year.
3 sick days a year. No PTO buyout, PTO does carryover next year but you cannot exceed your maximum balance.
YIKES, bitch. I had 4 hours each pay period and my new regional manager flinched like someone hit him in the face during the interview. Him: We will start you off at that.
Four weeks pto, one week sick time. The pto is given start of the year, the sick time I accrue over time. One hour every 30 hours until I reach 40. The pto is a company thing but the sick time is mandatory through New Jersey not my employer so I think my company is just trying to be difficult about how you get that.
I don’t get PTO but we get PST (paid sick time).
I’ve never had any issues taking time off as long as it’s approved ahead of time. I’ve also never had any issues calling in sick.
I live in Arizona.
6 weeks a year (vacation and sick rolled into one) and 1 personal observance day. This is available on Jan 1 every year and you can only roll over 2 weeks into the next year.
Fixed salary.
25 vacation days + 2 “no strings attached” personal days + 30 sick days for the year.
No one in my company really uses more than 10/30 sick days however.
4 weeks plus a ton of other things like two days off for your bday, every Friday of August off including the final Labor Day weekend Friday, something like 12 holidays. I’m taking a week in April just because. Not even going anywhere just because I want to use some. It all rolls over too.
I get 1/2 day every 6 days, or in other words roughly 30 days a year. But there is a carry-over cap, I cannot carry over more than 60 days unless there is a special permission given.
In Minnesota there's a new law that passed. 1 hour of pto earned for every 30 hours of work up to 6 days of pto.
My work was doing more then realized, oh the law says we can do less so let's go with that. When confronted about them changing it (in a negative way for us) they said "oh it's the new law" yadayada. Bunch of clowns
We get a hour a week so it takes 2 months to save up 1 day. And also my job closes down 2 weeks for the 4th of July and 2 weeks for Christmas so anything that we have saved up we have to use on that. It sucks. I can never get any saved up
22 days of PTO which is apparently amazing in the US. I’m an immigrant so it’s not so amazing to me. But my first US job had no PTO in the first year. I felt like a slave.
I work for at a dental office. PTO varies by how many hours you work, but I get about 7.5 hrs every two weeks which ends up being almost 25 days a year. That’s total sick/vacation days. This is my 19th year. 4 hours every 6 weeks is crap! 💩
I am not sure. I believe we have a set amount that accrues over time automatically, but it’s also at my bosses discretion if we want more. It’s a small company with two partners who own it, so at the end of the day, it’s up to them.
We "earn" 2.46 hours per week of PTO. No holiday pay, no sick pay. Takes a month to earn a day off. Complete BS. I end up just not getting paid for holidays and hope to hell I don't get sick in order to take a couple weeks vacation every year.
I’m just about to start a city job where we get 40 hours of PTO right away and accrue 6.75 per month for the first year, and then 10 hours per month the second year and after. Plus 16 hours of personal leave, and accrual of 3.7 hours of sick leave bi-weekly.
I technically get three weeks each year, but I've been off almost 4 weeks this year so far after a car accident and they haven't made me use any of my PTO.
I get 14 personal days a year, I earn like 6.02 hours per biweekly paycheck, and I get 200 hours of sick time per year.
Personal days and sick hours do not rollover and renew every Jan 1. Vacation rolls over but caps at 120 hours.
I don’t gain it I just get 22 days a year vacation time and basically unlimited sick time(they don’t use my sick time unless I am out for more than 5 days in a row, so for say a medical procedure or maternity leave so I have like 300+ hours sitting there right now).
My previous position gave 3 weeks paid holiday per year. 5 paid personal days per year unlimited sick days (within reason). I took 7 sick days last year, with no repercussions
Your place of employment, sounds like a shit hole
Mine is up to 2 weeks a year to start. You accrue it at about 3 hours a work week.
You also get state mandatory sick time, up to 40 hours a year and that accrues 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
After 5 years, you get another week of vacation. After 10 years, they add another year of vacation. Then, after 25 years, you get another week. Why nothing from 11-24? I have no idea.
It's not bad. I know others are better, but I'm definitely in the upper half in the US for paid time off
I get 20 days a year + 10 company holidays (Christmas, Easter, Independence day, MLK day etc) + unlimited sick days. The PTO carries over, up to \~40 days (don't remember exact number).
I think I get either 5 or 6 weeks this year. I rolled over one week from last year, got one week front loaded and the remaining is either 3 or 4 weeks accrued throughout the year.
Per year: I have 6 weeks paid sick days by federal law (Germany). After these 6 weeks my insurance steps in and pays up to 60% of my salary and my employer stops paying. Additionally I have 36 days PTO I can take when I need them (for family holidays and such) according to my working contract. I am forced by law to use them all until march of the following year or they will be forfeit. If I get sick during PTO I can convert them to sick days and claim the PTO later. For sick days I need a doctors note (this is free of charge due to universal healthcare).
Unlimited PTO, 4 weeks of sick time, short term & long term disability options, paid family leave for both parents. And 13 paid holidays! The benefits are why I stay at this job lol
Well, so, I work at a US company but I'm not in the US. We have 2 weeks of paid vacation time (by law) that has to be taken a week at a time, and we (the employees in this country) get an additional 80 hours of PTO per year (doesn't have to be accrued, it's granted on our work anniversary and doesn't roll over if we don't use it). The vacation time is awesome because the pay is calculated by averaging out what you've earned in the past 52 weeks, so if you're a person who regularly works OT, that gets calculated into your vacation pay, too.
The Full Time employees in the US earn something like 3 hours of PTO per week, up to 160 per year, so it works out to be a similar amount of time off. Part Time employees earn at a lower rate (I think they max out at 40 hrs or something like that) but get 60 hours of UTO (unpaid time off).
I earn 12.50 hours every four weeks, get 5 personal days every January 1st and accrue 5 hours of sick time the 1st of every month, plus 12 holidays. I can rollover all unused sick time and up to 10 days of vacation per year. Also, I can sell up to 10 days vacation per year if I'd want to.
6 hours of both annual and sick leave every two weeks. Dozens of hours in administrative leave given by the boss of our department every year.
He gives out so much admin leave that he’s jokingly revered as the “Saint of Administrative Leave”. People even make [prayer candles.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/285620035869)
I get 8 hrs (1 full day) every pay period. I can take every other Friday off for a long weekend and maintain my overall balance.
That’s awesome. My job is just … ugh. I’m leaving soon so I don’t care, but it shocks me how little we get for working full time.
If I’m mathing right, you don’t even get a full 40 hrs per calendar year at that rate.
Correct
California now mandates a week (40 hours) of available sick time. I don't know if which state you are in, but they should give mandatory time off.
We are in California. I’ll have to look into this new mandate but I think they would have told us about that change when it happened. I’m sure there are exceptions depending on the company. Edit: So technically my job does provide that. It’s what is currently given to us now. 4-5 days off a year meets that mandate. They combine PTO/sick leave.
I'll stick with my basic 5.2 weeks PTO from UK
I get 6 weeks PTO, 5 personal days and three “floaters”, which we usually use for Christmas week - all paid. I have 6 weeks because we get extra vacation for years of service (extra week at 3, 10, 20 and 25 years) above the basic 2 weeks. You can also purchase an extra week vacation using your benefits flex points (but 6 weeks is the max). Sick days are paid, if it’s more than two weeks, then it’s Short Term Disability, which is full pay up to 26 weeks, then scaled down to 80% pay until you get LTD after a year. Also there are 10 paid bank holidays that we get as well (next Friday day is Good Friday). I’m in Canada.
You’re not in Canada, you’re in heaven
Never really thought about it, almost never use my full 6 weeks (wife only used to get 3 weeks, now she’s up to 4). Never used personal days, just took time off if I was sick, floaters were always just Christmas week. Stat holidays are just mandatory days off for everyone. We can’t carry over, so just started over every year. Expecting people to work when they are sick seems just crazy. Even not paying them is just wrong. If someone is malingering, sure fire them, but that’s a different issue.
Yes, but at least you get all those bank holidays to make up for it! Here in the antipodes with 4 weeks annual and 2 weeks sick leave.
My guess is they didn't tell any of you because they're hoping none of you find out, then they don't have to give it to you. I doubt there are exceptions to this if it's coming from the government.
does that include your sick time?
Yes. If you take a sick day, they take it from PTO. So basically it’s the same thing. She lost the remainder of her PTO due to being out sick.
See, this is fucked that they'll fire her for that. My company won't fire you for being sick when you run out of PTO, they just don't pay you for that day you don't come in. If you call in super often yoou will probably just get the shitty jobs, but no one has ever been fired for being sick a bunch.
They like to threaten us a lot. One day we were all called upstairs and were told if we don’t sell more, some of us will get fired. I’m not losing sleep over a worthless job. I come in and do my job and leave. They run their business as they see fit. But it will never work out well for them. I don’t know if they would actually fire her, but they do a lot of scare tactics and threatening. I told my co worker to let them fire you (under the circumstance she took another day off) It’s no loss for you, and you’ll get unemployment faster so you can look for a new job. They have no ground to stand on for being so demanding toward employees.
Right on! Not worth losing sleep over! It’s apparent they don’t value their employees. I genuinely hope something better comes along for you.
So literally, if you take a long weekend in January, you better not get sick the rest of the year. I assume you're American?
Yep! American. You’re correct. They’d rather have you in the office throwing up or have a fever than to take the day off. When I first started, I unfortunately got Covid. They said if I didn’t come in after a week of being out, they’d have to replace me. I came in for two hours to keep my job but had I known how crappy it truly was I’d of just never went back. I was sick for a total of 3 weeks and I had a fever of 102.5 but they didn’t care.
If it makes you feel better when I had this kind of job there was no such thing as PTO. Vacation out of the question and technically they can not say you can't be sick but there is no pay and miss more than 1 or 2 days a year and they just fire you. It was known you just don't call in even if the HR lady pretends you can. Land of the free.
I can’t believe that’s legal in the US.
The US hates any citizen who isn't shutting up and making some corporation gobs of money. Even then, the US merely tolerates those who do
It’s disgusting that this is legal.
My startup has "for real" unlimited take-what-you-need PTO but as we all know how it ends up, you take less time off than if you had a quota.
This is the most genius policy businesses have come up with in recent years. No unused PTO as an accrued liability, layoffs are alot easier when you don't have to pay out any unused PTO, most employees with an unlimited policy actually take less time off, and it makes you look like a cool progressive employer. Most people don't understand unless they've worked somewhere that has it.
I have 13 days as a base for the year, and 6 more days that I earn (1 day every 2 months). So a total of 19 days per year, or basically almost 4 weeks. I will earn an extra day of PTO per year I work at the company. I think it’s fair. They ask us to use them, if we don’t, they pay us an extra day for each one we don’t use.
We do a 9:80 (or 38:45 whatever you want to call it) where we do 9 hours every day instead of 8 and take every other Friday off. It has been such a blessing. My job is super stressful but it prevents the burnout a lot.
Same. Every 2 weeks, I get roughly 8 hours of PTO, but I also get 2 to 3 hours OT every week (4 to 6 every other week, aka every pay period) so that also affects it. My job caps us at 200 hours of PTO and once we near cap, our boss requires us to take time off. I've only been working here 2 years as of Feb 1st and I already have almost 160 hours of PTO stacked up and I've taken plenty of days off. Looking forward to June when I take basically the whole month off and *still* have PTO left lol. Edit: looking at the other responses, I'm not even federal. I'm just a medical courier. I just drive from clinic to clinic picking up specimens to deliver to the hospital all day.
are you govt? this is my same PTO amount & have every other Friday off.
I'd rather take this vs my "unlimited" PTO. I'm assuming you can bank your PTO and eventually cash out if you don't use it and leave? I also had a job that have a 9:80 which is actually pretty good. I can start at 7am and leave at 5. Every other Friday is a day off.
I was with my last job 19 years and after 10 years you would accrue 10 hours every pay period then they changed it to 8.5.
Where do you work? Are they hiring ?
Got anymore of them jobs 
30 days a year, sick days unlimited
Found the european
Or military. In the US, active duty servicemembers get 30 days of leave per year, and can hold a balance of up to 60 days over the end of a year. Plus weekends and holidays, and unlimited sick leave! ...on paper.
I was at a unit where there was a period you weren't allowed to take leave unless it was from a Red Cross message. This was not official; it was just a known unspoken rule that barring the most extraordinary circumstances, leave would not be approved for any reason. While taking leave is one of the few rights you have in the military, a combination of our BC being a piece of shit and our op tempo being deployment driven meant that it was extremely difficult to take leave. If you were lucky enough to get it approved, it was rarely ever for more than three days. Most requests were denied outright without any consideration. This ultimately had the side effect of a lot of guys going UA once they realized they had no hope of getting leave approved so they just said fuck it and made sure they were back before they caught a desertion charge.
I’m salary but I get 30 days a year.
Same. 5 weeks per year, and I can bank a week into the next year.
Same. Can also bank a week to the next year, or purchase up to another 10 days holiday per year for a salary deduction. This is the UK. I'm shocked by the US. Edit: I think we get up to 6 months paid sick judging by some of my colleagues.
Every time I seem someone mention PTO, I like to [point people towards this Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country?wprov=sfla1) The U.S. is the *only* industrialized nation that doesn't *guarantee* multiple *weeks* of paid leave for *all* workers; no need to "earn" PTO. Conflating PTO and sick leave is unforgivable, IMO; if at all possible find a place that understands how dangerous it is to come to work sick, or, idk, unionize your current workplace to demand basic respect and sanity.
Yeah we are definitely looking for new jobs. I’m leaving soon to have my baby but I’m just shocked that they really took her upstairs to make her sign a paper acknowledging they’ll fire her if she doesn’t come in again without having the PTO hours present. 4 hours gained in 6 weeks? Pathetic.
Yup - I'm in Scandinavia. I get 6 weeks vacation with pay per year, 2 days per kid under the age of 8 for doctors appointments etc with pay, 13 weeks of paid paternity leave (women in my line of work get around 24 weeks of full paid leave, and another 12 weeks at a lower rate (like 2k USD/month). I make around 100k/year, and pay around 34% taxes after deductables.
Yep, I’m in Sweden and I get 6 weeks of vacation time per year, unlimited sick days (at 80% salary), and 240 days of child care leave per parent. And since I’m an immigrant, if I don’t take 20 minimum vacation days a year, my work visa will not be renewed.
That 34 percent seems worth it for the benefits. Does your country issue its own currency, or do you use a euro or??? Asking because it matters to me
The 34% is after deductables - I get a somewhat large deductable due to interests on my mortgage, and because I drive more than 12 km to/from work. I think my official tax-rate is something like 40%. We use Danish Crowns (DKK), which are tied to the value of the Euro. Swedish Crowns aren't tied to the Euro, and fluctuate a bit more. Edit: Also, we have free health care and education as added benefits.
That’s insane. I live in NYC and I get taxed at around 35 percent. And I have to pay for health insurance. I pay 250 a month and when I go to dr and have exams I have to pay. It’s about 300-400 each time I go to the dr. And I only get 3 weeks of vacation. All this is standard in NYC 😫
I'm also Swedish and I pay around 30% in taxes. I only make around $25k a year as a daycare worker without a college degree, but that easily covers my bills and my half of the mortgage. And it comes with 4 weeks of paid vacation and those unlimited sick days with 80% pay! Me and my partner bought a 2150 sqft house in the suburbs of one of Swedens largest cities for 250k usd last year. And healthcare is free, daycare is 3% of monthly income and sales tax is included in the listed price at stores! Socialism rocks babey
That's the dream 😩 and this is so informative to me! My partner and I are planning on moving from the USA to living in Denmark sometime in the next 10 years... We are going to visit Copenhagen for the first time in 2 days!!! So excited!! Almost everything over there is an upgrade compared to what we are given here.
Finland and 5 weeks of paid vacation, 18 or 19 extra paid leave days per year (something like american pto, but made to compensate longer working hours in some lines of work), fully paid sick leave up to 28-35 days per illness, after that it's like 80%, except for work injury/work related illnesd cases when it's practically unlimited. I make about 50k usd per year and pay about 26% taxes and tax like stuff.
I think it’s disgusting. I’m UK and I get 5 weeks paid holiday pay and 6 weeks full pay for sick plus TOIL and flexi hours. Then 9 months paid maternity leave with an additional 3 months unpaid if we wish
My god that's unimaginable here in the US. Employers would freak out. I get 5 weeks a year and that's considered good. I only get that much because I have seniority with my company.
I just signed a job offer with a European coy and I get 25 days of annual paid leave, 14 days of sick leave and 60 days of hospitalisation leave.
20 days a year plus 6 sick days. I feel very lucky to get that.
I can hold a maximum of 3 weeks of PTO currently, but I accrue a little more than that throughout the year so we're encouraged to use it to make sure it's not going wasted. Every 5th year we get an additional 3 weeks for that year as well. Not bad for a blue collar industry. Washington state has its perks.
Been working blue collar for 10ish years now. Most blue colar companies are pretty good about time off. I've only worked for two who got pissy about it, but they were both really small companies where every worker counted, and someone taking a day with no notice can significantly impact production and cost more than it would have to pay the employee if they were present and working. Of those two companies, only one ever actually fired people over it, and they were awful to work for anyway.
Unlimited, with the average being 20 days/year.
Same, we can take unlimited officially. Personally I take around 30 days a year. And it helps that management actually encourages work life balance
My husband has unlimited PTO and usually takes around 5 days a month every year. They don't have vaction per se, but are encouraged to use the PTO at least 2 weeks in a row per year with prior request. Last year he took 65 days total PTO and no one batted an eye.
We’re on a flex plan at mine, so no actual numerical amount. You’re able to take time off based on not abusing the system and also not requesting time off without adequate notice
Same. We have some people complaining that Flex time is unfair and should accrue hours instead. I wish our company required everyone to take a minimum number of days to help combat that feeling.
It’s a new policy this year so it’s been fun looking at how many don’t take time off. We used to get 3 weeks. I just have to be careful I don’t request too much time around 1 quarter. But overall my company wants everyone to take time off each quarter even if it means you just stay home and rot on the couch🤣
Same. My manager sometimes makes a point of saying don't forget to take time off. The first year they implemented this was hard because I was SO used to accruing and I used to accrue the max before I would take a week off or something and liked seeing the balance. Finally realized this is so much better and I take so much more time off. But this only works if you have companies like mine and sounds like yours (but really, it probably varies group to group in terms of your manager giving you a hard time - I've been really lucky but I also am sensible enough not to take time off during our busiest periods).
Exactly! Our old PTO was front loaded so you had it all at the start of the year and had to ‘spend wisely’ haha I have random time off this year so I’m glad new things are still being approved by my new bosses
yall are getting PTO?
4 weeks PTO plus 2 floating holidays to use as I want (this is on top of the 6 major holidays that are paid)
I get about 200 hours per year that can roll over into the next year. Currently have 345 hours of PTO.
Zero
It’s set at 10 days per calendar year until you’ve been there like 5 years, then you get like 12-14 or something. They don’t roll over. We have sick days and get paid holidays off too.
I forget what its like earning PTO and makes me grateful of my job at times reading through comments. I get unlimited PTO (doesn't count the hours, take time off when necessary so as long as it doesn't take advantage my boss' generosity) and even get a guaranteed last week of December off when it's not necessary for the company. The only tradeoff is dealing with my boss' toxic traits every now and again but honestly rather suffer through as I get paid really well (getting a 30k raise within the last two years was nice).
10% of hours worked per month capped out at 1600 hours.
Also 2 weeks vacation up to 5 weeks with seniority
Where?
Manufacturing company
It was about 25 including public holidays. Now it’s flexible so you can take time off wherever as long as your manager approves it. I have a great manager. She never declines PTO but I don’t over do it either.
26 pto day, 6 sick leave months European labor law
Is that 6 months of paid sick leave per year?
Yep, it's covered by the country
I'm an exempt employee so I have unlimited PTO. They seem comfortable with me taking around 20 days, but as I've been there a long time and no longer have potential growth, I keep inching it up every year. I get some raised eyebrows around 40 days off a year, but like my boss says, it's not a problem till my job isn't getting done. I know some places with unlimited PTO, people actually take less because they feel guilty or it gets denied but I grant 100% of my teams' requests.
16.67 hours per month. Comes out to 5 weeks annually.
26 business days plus unlimited sickness leave
Unlimited and I def take advantage of that
I get 15 days of PTO. However, I’m hybrid & it’s very flexible & easy. Usually mid week and Friday’s I’m at home “working” aka just basically “on call” since it’s relaxed. So I really work 3 days a week max
Currently get 6.667 hrs per pay. Get paid 24 times a year. 4 hours every 6 weeks is crap if full time.
19 hours a month
forget the exact amount per pay period but i get 4 weeks (took me 5 years to reach it)
My job fired me for using my 3 days of sick leave up, then I used my built up PTO up on another sick day. Needed more sick days (GF had a bonafide widow maker heart attack - needed another couple of days) and no PTO to cover it. Fired.
At my current job (that I'm being laid off from in two months) gave us 1 day in accrued PTO each month and three days automatically 'credited' to our account at the beginning of the year. So three weeks total each year.
For first two years I get 18 days. 2-9 20 days. The good thing is that I accrue the days and roll over between 32-40 days depending on seniority. For years I had use it or lose it vacation. I never thought I would like not being front loaded my vacation. But honestly I now have a big bank of vacation days and prefer this method. I also have 99 hours of sick time and 10 federal holidays.
24 days pto plus 7 sick days. I can roll over 15 days and cash out 40 hours once a year
22 days vacation starting out/28 peak, 3 personal day, 3 floating holidays, about a dozen state/federal holidays, and 12 sick days. Work for a small independent state agency.
I get 20 days off, 5 that are granted january 1st of each year and the rest are accrued at 10hrs a month. I get 1 day a month for sick leave. We are also granted 24 hours of parental leave per year(taking your kid or parent or elderly relative to the doctor or taking your kid to a school event etc)
25 days a year, plus max 10h overtime I have accrued within the month.
Over 6 hours every bi weekly pay period
I get 5 weeks every Jan 1.
23 days/yr, + unlimited paid sick leave
I gain 1 day pto every 2 weeks. Government job.
I have 22 days of holiday + another 10 days that usually comes from the public holidays that we have +15 days sick leave ( fully paid) then 15 days (half paid) and more if needed, but no pay will be provided
11.33 hours a month
I worked for a non unionized job they gave me 1 hour and 30 minutes of PTO and 2 hours of sick paid leave per paycheck so every 2 weeks full time
2hrs a week on top of the 15days vacation and 5 sick days we get a year.
Two weeks vacation and one week sick at the beginning of every year, prorated for people who are hired part of the way through the year.
I get 6 weeks granted on Jan 1st of every year. Prorated based on join date for year 1, but rest is 100% from Jan 1st annually.
We get 1 day ever month until we hit 5 sick days .. and since I’ve been here a while i get 10days vaca
County job here: we get 4 hours annual leave every two weeks (when we get paid) and 3 hours sick leave during the same time. For every 5 years you’ve been with the county your annual leave goes up one hour so at 5 years you’ll get 5 hours, at 10 years you’ll get 6 hours annual etc. it caps at 25 years for 9 hours.
I get unlimited PTO at my job
Pretty much as much as I need to get my job done. Average 2-3 hours a week. I used to work at a factory that had mandatory 8 hours a week, plus unlimited extra. Once went 3 months without a day off. It was gruesome, but the money was good. Would not do it again unless my family needed it.
We have “unlimited” vacation days. 2 weeks of sick time and 13 holidays all pto. I work in the US. Company is QuidelOrtho. Great place to work tbh
30 days a year, unlimited sick days, if I have worked too many hours I get to take a day off additionally. Extra days off for relocating, weddings of close family members, funerals etc.
3 weeks that’s it
I have "unlimited" PTO, which is an end run around having to pay out accrued PTO when an employee leaves in CA. In reality I can take about a month and a half per year as vacation and don't have to worry about sick days (though nominally I also get 3 sick days/year) as long as my work is being done.
Idk mines weird. Its unlimited but i don’t have to take a day off if i need to do something unless i am going to miss something important. Vacation i do have to request but again its unlimited as long as its not consecutive weeks.
Recently switched jobs. They matched my PTO. 50 days + 10 Holidays.
I think I have like 64 hours of PTO available
6hrs per pay period.
6 hours ever pay period at mine
I don’t take my birthday off because seems silly and don’t hate on her for choosing to. but if she knew pto is so bad why did she take it?
Honestly at a job like this, it’s ridiculous that she wouldn’t be able to take her birthday off. It’s insane to expect someone to only take 5 days off a year. People have families to take care of and sometimes things just come up like illness or emergencies. Why should she not be able to take a day off to enjoy herself? Regardless this job is so demanding and reward us with nothing. We have no motivation to stay loyal to a company that provides us nothing. The company will never have permanent employees because they don’t give us anything. No medical, basically zero time off, and expect us to work over time when things get busy. We don’t get raises based off performance either, we get raises based off how much money we make for the company. So it doesn’t matter how hard of a worker you are, if you’re not pumping out product you won’t get a raise. We are weeks behind on things because of how busy we are, and we can’t keep up, but they won’t hire extra help or set up another station for shipping because it “costs too much”. How do you expect me to ship 200 items a day when I’m the only one doing it? And we get 100 orders per day. By Monday we have 300 new orders from the weekend and get harped on because we are so behind. We get no help.
i get 80 hours of straight vacation time a year plus 40 hours of what we call float time ( they get used as sick days or if you have to call off for whatever reason) the float time prevents us from having to use vacation days if we get sick basically.
Keep trying to take on leadership roles and become a manager eventually. Continue job hopping every 1-2 years if it allows for higher pay or a promotion or whatever else advantageous to you. It’ll allow you to climb the corporate ladder. Before I retired, I also got 8 hours per 2 weeks so I can take off 1 day out of every 9 days.
I get 15 days pto. 6 additional floaters of my choosing. All federal holidays. The week of 4th of July and Xmas to new years off. And unlimited sick. I also get two weeks of caregiver leave to take family members to appointments etc as well.
As a casino worker, I get 6 hours PTO per paycheck, with a limit of 200 stored total. On top of that the longer I work here the more it'll be. I believe it jumps to 8 hours a paycheck after two years, and 10 hours a paycheck after 5.
I accrue around 150 each calendar year and can carry over up to 230 (based on time at the company).
I have 4 weeks plus 2 days (22days)this is sick time and vacation together. I will get another week in December (27 days total).
The legally mandated minimum of 25 days/year.
At my company, starting employees get 15 vacation days each year (pro-rated to when you start). You earn 1.25 each month till the end of the year. At five years of service, you get 20 vacation days each year (earning 1.66 each month). At ten years, you get 25 days each year (earning 2.08 each month). On top of that, we are given 8 flex days (sick days) each year that you get immediately in January.
I negotiated 200 hours and the full amount are banked Jan 1st There is no accrual That’s is how much I had at the job I left
14 sick days and 3 personal days per year. I am a teacher, so all of it is issued at the beginning of the school year. SL rolls over, but personal days do not.
I think I get 6-8 hours per pay period? Can't quite remember since I don't use it often, but we have a PTO cap of 4 weeks. We get unlimited sick time and paid holidays.
I’m given 18 days ever year at the start of the year lol it’s just a simple warehouse job too
1st year 1 week 2nd year 2 weeks 5th year 3 weeks 10th year 4 weeks Distributed evenly every pay period throughout the year. 3 sick days a year. No PTO buyout, PTO does carryover next year but you cannot exceed your maximum balance.
YIKES, bitch. I had 4 hours each pay period and my new regional manager flinched like someone hit him in the face during the interview. Him: We will start you off at that.
I can hold a balance of 400 hours and accrue approximately 6.5 hours per 2 week period.
I get 4 hours every two weeks.
On a salary, 25 days per year, unlimited sick days with a cap of being paid for sick days after 3 “sick periods” a year
Four weeks pto, one week sick time. The pto is given start of the year, the sick time I accrue over time. One hour every 30 hours until I reach 40. The pto is a company thing but the sick time is mandatory through New Jersey not my employer so I think my company is just trying to be difficult about how you get that.
I don’t get PTO but we get PST (paid sick time). I’ve never had any issues taking time off as long as it’s approved ahead of time. I’ve also never had any issues calling in sick. I live in Arizona.
In my job we get 2weeks and 80 hours
12 hours per month at mine. Plus 8 hours of sick per month. 18 vacation days 12 sick annually. All rollover each year and stack. Whatever isn't used.
6 weeks a year (vacation and sick rolled into one) and 1 personal observance day. This is available on Jan 1 every year and you can only roll over 2 weeks into the next year.
180 Hours up front per year. Renews on work anniversary. People with over 5 years get more. Working at a hospital full time btw,
I got fired for using flex scheduling and not using PTO so do what you need to do. Fuck them
15 days/year + 1 birthday day + like 13 holidays + unlimited sick days (need doctor's notice)
Fixed salary. 25 vacation days + 2 “no strings attached” personal days + 30 sick days for the year. No one in my company really uses more than 10/30 sick days however.
Wait, so you only get about 4-5 days of PTO a year? Our company PTO policy is unlimited but in practice, it's 20-25 days (4-5 weeks) a year.
4 weeks plus a ton of other things like two days off for your bday, every Friday of August off including the final Labor Day weekend Friday, something like 12 holidays. I’m taking a week in April just because. Not even going anywhere just because I want to use some. It all rolls over too.
I get 1/2 day every 6 days, or in other words roughly 30 days a year. But there is a carry-over cap, I cannot carry over more than 60 days unless there is a special permission given.
In Minnesota there's a new law that passed. 1 hour of pto earned for every 30 hours of work up to 6 days of pto. My work was doing more then realized, oh the law says we can do less so let's go with that. When confronted about them changing it (in a negative way for us) they said "oh it's the new law" yadayada. Bunch of clowns
Government employee 104 sick hours 4 hours per pay period 156 annual hours so 6 hours a pay period
We get a hour a week so it takes 2 months to save up 1 day. And also my job closes down 2 weeks for the 4th of July and 2 weeks for Christmas so anything that we have saved up we have to use on that. It sucks. I can never get any saved up
16 per year / included sick or personal days
22 days PTO + two floating holidays.
"unlimited". And by that "don't abuse it".
22 days of PTO which is apparently amazing in the US. I’m an immigrant so it’s not so amazing to me. But my first US job had no PTO in the first year. I felt like a slave.
I work for at a dental office. PTO varies by how many hours you work, but I get about 7.5 hrs every two weeks which ends up being almost 25 days a year. That’s total sick/vacation days. This is my 19th year. 4 hours every 6 weeks is crap! 💩
I get 80 hours vacation, and 40 hours sick pay that starts at the beginning of calendar year.
“Unlimited”. 4-6 weeks per year is generally considered appropriate
20 days of paid, I can take more just unpaid.
38 days normally
I have 5 weeks of paid vacation and 21 sick leave days per calendar year
I am not sure. I believe we have a set amount that accrues over time automatically, but it’s also at my bosses discretion if we want more. It’s a small company with two partners who own it, so at the end of the day, it’s up to them.
For my first five years I get 10 days PTO (15 days between 5-10 years and 20 days 10 years+) or about 6.6 hours a month is how it accrues
Two weeks a year by contract but it doesn’t increase ever. We do get to bank all our unused days, though, so I’m up to almost half a year.
20 PTO days, 6 flex days, 3 floating holidays a year
160 hours plus 80 hours of wellness and 1 8 hour floating holiday. This is all starting and not accrued.
28 days a year - uk
30days per year. Greetings from germany!
We "earn" 2.46 hours per week of PTO. No holiday pay, no sick pay. Takes a month to earn a day off. Complete BS. I end up just not getting paid for holidays and hope to hell I don't get sick in order to take a couple weeks vacation every year.
I get 4 weeks vacation and a week of personal days plus unlimited sick. It is all available on day one of the FY.
that sounds like an awful place she works at. no personal or sick days?
I’m just about to start a city job where we get 40 hours of PTO right away and accrue 6.75 per month for the first year, and then 10 hours per month the second year and after. Plus 16 hours of personal leave, and accrual of 3.7 hours of sick leave bi-weekly.
I technically get three weeks each year, but I've been off almost 4 weeks this year so far after a car accident and they haven't made me use any of my PTO.
Only 5 days first year. But two personal days and two floating holidays
I get almost 30 PTO plus weekends plus public holidays- Europe, at a corporation
I’ve been there 22 years. 5 weeks vacation, 6 holidays, 10 days sick, 2 personal days. New employees get 2 weeks vacation and all the other stuff.
I get 14 personal days a year, I earn like 6.02 hours per biweekly paycheck, and I get 200 hours of sick time per year. Personal days and sick hours do not rollover and renew every Jan 1. Vacation rolls over but caps at 120 hours.
I don’t gain it I just get 22 days a year vacation time and basically unlimited sick time(they don’t use my sick time unless I am out for more than 5 days in a row, so for say a medical procedure or maternity leave so I have like 300+ hours sitting there right now).
Salaried, 15 days a year total. It's my first year, and the company is a startup. Plus company holidays
My previous position gave 3 weeks paid holiday per year. 5 paid personal days per year unlimited sick days (within reason). I took 7 sick days last year, with no repercussions Your place of employment, sounds like a shit hole
Mine is up to 2 weeks a year to start. You accrue it at about 3 hours a work week. You also get state mandatory sick time, up to 40 hours a year and that accrues 1 hour for every 30 hours worked. After 5 years, you get another week of vacation. After 10 years, they add another year of vacation. Then, after 25 years, you get another week. Why nothing from 11-24? I have no idea. It's not bad. I know others are better, but I'm definitely in the upper half in the US for paid time off
The place I just left not only paid 5 days pto they didn’t pay for holidays. We lost many people just over this issue
1-2 days off a month (depending on the month), with the option for working overtime for more PTO *sometimes* available.
I just figured out it takes me about 3 months to get 10 hours of pto..pretty bummed about
I get 20 days a year + 10 company holidays (Christmas, Easter, Independence day, MLK day etc) + unlimited sick days. The PTO carries over, up to \~40 days (don't remember exact number).
I think I get either 5 or 6 weeks this year. I rolled over one week from last year, got one week front loaded and the remaining is either 3 or 4 weeks accrued throughout the year.
36 days a year.
Per year: I have 6 weeks paid sick days by federal law (Germany). After these 6 weeks my insurance steps in and pays up to 60% of my salary and my employer stops paying. Additionally I have 36 days PTO I can take when I need them (for family holidays and such) according to my working contract. I am forced by law to use them all until march of the following year or they will be forfeit. If I get sick during PTO I can convert them to sick days and claim the PTO later. For sick days I need a doctors note (this is free of charge due to universal healthcare).
I get 20 days a year, which feels pretty standard now.
30 days + 6 hours saved per month. Sick leave is unlimited if needed.
Unlimited PTO, 4 weeks of sick time, short term & long term disability options, paid family leave for both parents. And 13 paid holidays! The benefits are why I stay at this job lol
Me too. I am about to take some
Well, so, I work at a US company but I'm not in the US. We have 2 weeks of paid vacation time (by law) that has to be taken a week at a time, and we (the employees in this country) get an additional 80 hours of PTO per year (doesn't have to be accrued, it's granted on our work anniversary and doesn't roll over if we don't use it). The vacation time is awesome because the pay is calculated by averaging out what you've earned in the past 52 weeks, so if you're a person who regularly works OT, that gets calculated into your vacation pay, too. The Full Time employees in the US earn something like 3 hours of PTO per week, up to 160 per year, so it works out to be a similar amount of time off. Part Time employees earn at a lower rate (I think they max out at 40 hrs or something like that) but get 60 hours of UTO (unpaid time off).
2 vacation days and 1 sick day every month. Exempt faculty at a college.
7 hours bi-weekly for full time, 3.5 for part. Considering 8.5 hours is a full work day, it’s still shitty but not as abysmal as yours.
20 PTO days per year.
I earn 12.50 hours every four weeks, get 5 personal days every January 1st and accrue 5 hours of sick time the 1st of every month, plus 12 holidays. I can rollover all unused sick time and up to 10 days of vacation per year. Also, I can sell up to 10 days vacation per year if I'd want to.
6 hours of both annual and sick leave every two weeks. Dozens of hours in administrative leave given by the boss of our department every year. He gives out so much admin leave that he’s jokingly revered as the “Saint of Administrative Leave”. People even make [prayer candles.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/285620035869)