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20 days pto plus around 8 paid holidays that are set days.

Union job, America.

I live in Australia but working remotely for a US tech company.

• Unlimited PTO (company policy) that my boss encourages to take. If I take less than 4 weeks then I get paid (Australian policy)
• Unlimited sick days
• 16 weeks maternity leave at full pay (company policy), or 24 weeks at national minimum wage (~AUD 185/day) for Australian policy. Up to 12 months unpaid

I usually take 6-8 weeks a year of PTO and for maternity leave I’ll take the 16 weeks paid, and 8 extra weeks unpaid/minimum wage (depending on my spouse’s situation)

USA, self employed so 0 hours PTO but also don't have to deal with an HR department to take time off.

The Greatest Country On Earth, Pennsylvania.

40 hours

Canada, technically unlimited but I generally take 5-6 weeks

Denmark: 30 paid days off per year, paid sick leave, some unknown amount of public holidays. Really enjoying this socialist-democratic hellhole.

Murica. 10 days given per year. 10 days taken. Use it for last two weeks of the year

Switzerland, 35 days of vacation but that is just the company I work for, usually it is 20-25 days. Also an additional 7 days of national and communal holidays.

I usually go on short vacations, 3-7 days.

Canada. Union. IT. Mixed Gov/corp contract.

100% WFH (anywhere, but within the country if you're on the gov stuff)

22 holiday-days a year. But given the 9x9 fortnight means an extra day off within the paycheque, timed around stats it means 7 weeks.

Generous supplemental medical and dental and vision plan, workday ends precisely at 4:39 and no one expects you to stay a millisecond after; but we stay to either finish or mothball a task so it's an easier pickup. Evenings and holidays are fucking sacred and you won't get contacted unless it's a break-glass all-hands event.

The job is too much fucking Ansible and not enough real work, but I joined because I know the staff and it's a really great and cohesive team. New openings only when someone retires, and with luck I could end up sailing the world on half pay for life like the guy whose seat I took over.

USA, tech start-up. "unlimited PTO" and probably about a month's worth per year. Also full WFH but that's because of a medical exemption.

While I'm at my desk, I work extremely hard but don't usually work more than 35ish hours per week as I my brain can't sustain much more.

20 discretionary, 12 set public, unlimited negotiable, 10 sick days. New Zealand.

USA. I accumulate an hour of PTO for every 40 hours I work, up to a maximum of 40 hours a year. I have to use it pretty sparingly.

USA. 3 weeks vacation max out at 4, 1 week sick time, 1 week "personal time". 10 holidays but we are running 24/7 so if you are scheduled to work you get time and a half those days plus 8 hours of extra pay. You get paid out any sick/personal time you don't use but vacation days no longer roll over. I liked saving up 2 years of vacation and fucking off for two months.

Canada, 6 weeks plus 1-2 weeks during xmas closure plus unlimited sick days

Brazil.
30 days + a lot of holidays.
At least 2 years for sickness if I'm not mistaken.

Ireland... 25 days PTO which is standard, minimum is 20 days. Plus public holidays, around 9 or so.

7 days sick leave at full pay, minimum is 5 days paid by gov at standard rate so not matched to your wages.

Usually take a week off on holiday, a few days in a row for school breaks, otherwise random days here and there for stuff.

Germany 30 days

US - 0

None at all, no sick, no holiday, no federal holiday, absolutely no PTO. If I don't go in I simply don't get paid.

USA, CA, civil service, IBEW. I'm between 5 and 15 years (different PTO for different service lengths).

15 days vacation, all federal plus 5 floating holidays, and 10 sick days.

It's 10 days vacation between 1 and 5 years, and 20 after 15.

Spain:

12 national holidays.

29 vacation days.

4 sick days without a doctor signed medical leave. As many as I need with a medical leave.

UK, 25 days annual leave which is the standard minimum plus bank holidays

Ontario, Canada.

Employees with less than five years of employment are entitled to two weeks of vacation time after each 12-month vacation entitlement year. Employees with five or more years of employment are entitled to three weeks of vacation time.

If you read the link you will find the employer is allowed to pay out your vacation time as a % of pay. This is very common especially in lower wage sectors. You are then supposed to save up the money yourself to pay yourself for vacation when you take time off. In effect, you don't get any paid vacation.

edit: I'll also add that you have no right to select WHEN you take your vacay. A friend of mine worked in a factory that shut down for 2 weeks in august for maintenance, painting, service the machines etc. So everyone had to take their vacation during that time; no choice. That is unusual but not prohibited.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/vacation

9 public holidays

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/public-holidays

Employees are entitled to up to 3 sick leave days per year once they have worked for an employer for at least 2 consecutive weeks.

This is new since COVID. Which at the time it was introduced, mandated 10 days away from work.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/sick-leave

There are also other kinds of leave like parental, bereavement and such, if you click any links you can see that in the sidebar. Nothing is very lush.

Everything is prorated to a 40 hour work week. Breaks don't count. So if you work 20 hours per week, you are entitled to half of what is specified.

Any employer can offer more than this, of course. Professionals and higher valued workers can get more. Unions or individuals can negotiate. But a lot of people only get the minimum. Or less. Enforcement is minimal. It's the honor system.

There are also exceptions like federal workers (government, airlines etc). And farm workers, who basically have zero rights of any sort.

Germany.

• 30 vacation days.
• 16 public holidays.
• Unlimited sick days (6 weeks paid by employer, the rest by the health insurance, at a lower rate)

These are all paid, ~~all working days~~ some public holidays may fall on the weekend.

I started this year with 9 vacation days from last year, I had to take them before the end of March, so I just randomly took a couple of weeks in Feb and Mar.

I usually align my vacation days with my kids school holidays, but I take 2-3 weeks continuously in the summer, usually late August.

US, I just got to offer stage with a company and the PTO was 10 days... I'm originally from the UK, and previously worked with startups from other countries, so this is shocking to me. More infuriating was the response from my friend group when I complained about it. "Yeah that's pretty standard" and I'm like "ok but it's also shit?"

Poland - 0 as I have trash grey market contract.

USA, no paid time off.

But I make enough to take off a few weeks a year anyway.

No, I don't have PTO. Guess.

Sweden. 30 days of PTO per year.

I usually do three weeks in summer, two over Christmas and save the rest for random extended weekends when the public holidays align.

Also, I have about 90 days of paid, and 45 barely paid days parental leave left to take out. There was a total of 480 days for me and the Mrs to share in-betweenst ourselves per kid. I took four months off. Plus another 10 daddy-days to use immediately after baby was born.

UK, 25 days as standard (not including paid bank holidays) plus my employer has the option to buy/sell up to 5 days so I usually buy 5 extra. Also, if you have left over holiday days, you can carry over 5 to the next financial year.

Additionally, the standard legal of 9 months maternity leave.

Also, unlimited paid sick days providing you don't take the piss; longer than 3 days you should ask for a note from the GP. Longer than 2 weeks you should arrange a meeting to discuss the situation and what (if any) adjustments can be made.

I will also point out that mental conditions must be treated the same as physical conditions so if you need to take a mental health day then you can.

Also my job is very flexible about working arrangements.

The standard is hybrid working, 2 out of 5 days in the office. But depending on what your job is you could be fully WFH or full-time in the office.

If you feel you can only work part-time and your manager agrees then you can.

And the contracted hours are 37.5 per week and flexible start so you must be available between the core hours of 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 4pm, and as it's the UK Fridays you can finish at 12. Providing you've logged enough hours for the week, if you want to finish early you can or take a longer lunch break to run an errand.

Oh and the cherry on top is the company tries to match annual pay rises with inflation and give a very good reason if they can't fully match it. That's not very common in the UK and one of the main reasons, aside from the fact that it's a nice place to work, why I've stayed with them because I don't feel pressured to move jobs to stop my pay getting eroded by inflation.

Canada - Four weeks vacation. Five and a half years with the company.

Australia: 20 days PTO by law, 13 public holidays (depends on the state, but no less than 10 which are national), 10 separate days for use when sick or caring for someone who is sick. There's more entitlements for different scenarios but this is pretty much the baseline.

Midwest US at a large nonprofit with ~10% union workers, ~7 hours PTO accrued per 2 week pay period adds up to just over 184 hours or 23 days, and another 14 holidays. PTO accrued was tiny until 5 years seniority, currently at 13 years and I think it caps at 8@20.

I usually take off as much as I can, about a month per year spread out by 1-2 week stretches for a vacation or just to take care of personal work or projects, moves, family stuff, etc.

USA. 4 weeks. Gotta love a good union!!!