How much PTO Time?

meadIT · May 2009

How much PTO (paid time off - vacation/sick/personal) do you get per year? I've received a job offer and it's a little lower than what I'm used to, but it may just be that I'm spoiled. Right now, I receive 24 days per year (after 5 years of service) at a medium sized distribution business with around 350 employees at this site. How much to you get and is it a small, medium, or large business?

dynamik · May 2009

15 days with another 3-5 for sick days. Personally, I'd take lower pay for more time off (within reason).

LarryDaMan · May 2009

I get 18 days per year. I was spoiled back in my Army days with 30 days a year. Just to make up the difference, I try to spend at least 12 days per year at work studying and web surfing!

shednik · May 2009

I get 13 days of PTO and sick days as many as needed I think I used a half of a day last year. I also have a lot of flexibility in when and where I'm working, anytime I need to work from home I can. Its very nice when you have a family to be able to work from wherever. I worked for a very large company so that's why I get that much flexibility. Smaller companies aren't usually like that in my experience.

furgoon · May 2009

15 Sick Days Per Year that carry over if not used.
15 Vacation Days
3 Personal Days
13 Holidays

Government and Union, loving it. Not bragging or anything....

Megadeth4168 · May 2009

10 Sick Days Per Year
15 Vacation Days
5 Personal Days
Holidays (Not going to bother counting or looking at my contract right now)
I can also gain CTO in favor of overtime pay.

Any unused sick or vacation time carries over to the next year... Up to a certain amount. I currently have close to 450 hours of sick in my bank. I think I'm close to getting Sick buy back... Once you hit your max bank, the time after that gets bought back at the end of the fiscal year at half your pay... It's free money essentially.

In another couple years my vacation time will increase to 20 days. There is something to be said for government jobs.

networker050184 · May 2009

LarryDaMan wrote: »

I get 18 days per year. I was spoiled back in my Army days with 30 days a year. Just to make up the difference, I try to spend at least 12 days per year at work studying and web surfing!

I was spoiled from my Army days too. Nothing will compare to all the time off you get in the military. All though sick days are frowned upon, nothing they can do if you have the Doc's orders!

Jordus · May 2009

12 sick
20 vacation
2 personal
and every major holiday off + the day before or after (sometimes both and other days)

My days off are great but im now way underpaid for what i do. For now.

Tyrant1919 · May 2009

21 vacation
15 sick I think
and the normal holidays.

Underpaid.

Alif_Sadida_Ekin · May 2009

Man, and I thought I had a lot of PTO...

I work for a bank, so no nights or weekends
15 vacation days
5 sick days
10 holidays

HeroPsycho · May 2009

15 days of vacation
3 personal/sick days

mikez · May 2009

10 vacation per year
16 sick per year
3 personal per year
13 holidays per year
sometimes they throw in 1 or 2 free days per year

miller811 · May 2009

mikez wrote: »

10 vacation per year
16 sick per year
3 personal per year
13 holidays per year
sometimes they throw in 1 or 2 free days per year

It makes me laugh to see to 16 sick days per year....
I have worked for the same company for 24 years, doing field service work and do not think I have taken 16 sick days in the 24 years

NinjaBoy · May 2009

meadIT wrote: »

How much PTO (paid time off - vacation/sick/personal) do you get per year? I've received a job offer and it's a little lower than what I'm used to, but it may just be that I'm spoiled. Right now, I receive 24 days per year (after 5 years of service) at a medium sized distribution business with around 350 employees at this site. How much to you get and is it a small, medium, or large business?

I currently get 25 days holiday + 8 bank hols. In my previous job I had 28 days, raising to 33 days after 5 years (in the UK the minimum amount of hols is 20 days for a full time person - then pro-rata if P/T).

Sick days is different in the UK, anything above 8 days is flagged up. Every company is different.

As for personal days, at our company, we can have up to 2 weeks unpaid for special leave (eg deaths). There's paternity, we currently get 1 week full pay & 1 week statutory paternity pay (currently £80). For maternity up to 6 months (then the following 3 months is half pay).

We have 1350 users & just under 600 machines.

Pay's not great though

-Ken

Daniel333 · May 2009

9 total, that is sum of vacation days and sick days.

I earn 1 per month, except for my first three months when I started. Next year it will be 12 total

ScottFern · May 2009

20 PTO days
10 Paid Holidays

1 year with company. I know one of our senior developers negotiated extra PTOs days in lieu of salary.

johnnyg5646 · May 2009

I work for the government so I'm a little spoiled. But I get 22 vacation days, 15 sick, 3 personal and 12 holidays.

mikez · May 2009

miller811- yes state government jobs give you a crazy amount of sick days (not sure why) but if you take all of them they frown upon it. At the end of your service you can cash them in and get x amount of dollars per day. you can carry up to 100 or so sick days over year to year.

i have to carefully plan my sick days so that it looks like im actually sick. 1 here, 1 there, gotta watch mondays and fridays-they catch on to those. A tuesday wednesdy or thursday every couple months here and there stays under the radar.
i've only taken 1 (and i was legitimately sick!) so far but plan to take 3 to 4 per year.

How much PTO Time?

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