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  1. Anonymous

    Most have given 2 weeks after a year, accruing a certain number of days per month worked for the first 1-5 years, and increase it by a week every 5 years up to a max of five weeks.

  2. Anonymous

    3.5w year, first 5 years

  3. Anonymous

    I was at 4 weeks but it took 10 years to get there.

  4. Diane J Huff

    Our vacation, sick and personal days are all tied together.. 25 total.

  5. Anonymous

    Salaried employee.
    Two years (this week). 20 days' vacation. We can carry over up to 5 days to the following year.

    Helpful to note that we are also shut down over the Christmas holiday (paid holiday).

  6. Anonymous

    Unlimited PTO since day 1. Recommended per year is a minimum of 20 days

  7. Anonymous

    I get six days a year as I work for a private university on a ten-month contract with the months of June and July off. I also get paid time off for Thanksgiving (three days) and Christmas/New Years (usually 7-8 days) plus federal holidays. I have worked at this university for three years.

  8. Anonymous

    Wow. are those hours or days? If it's days, that's huge! If it's hours it sucks for 25 years.

  9. Anonymous

    25 vacation, 6 paid leave, birthday, and 13 holidays - 45 total. I can carry over up to 25 vacation days and 30 paid leave days. I've been at my company for 12 years. The first year, employees gets 5 or 10 days of vacation as well as the other items above and then they get 15 days vacation starting with the first calendar rollover.

  10. Jill Ullman

    15 and I've been here three years.

  11. Anonymous

    My last job I got 15PTO. That included vacation and sick time. That only was given to management. Non-management received 10 PTO for vacation and sick.

  12. Anonymous

    I work in tech sales 2 of last 3 companies were unlimited PTO and other was 5 weeks. But with both you do not get paid out if you leave or get laid off

  13. Anonymous

    4 WEEKS PTO 4 DAYS SICK 2 DAYS FLOATING HOLIDAY. Been with my company 10 months. Exact same offering from by former company of 6 years. Both former and current company add 1 additional week to pto after 3 years.

  14. Jessica Ferland

    I've been in my role in state government for 8 years.
    We get 3 weeks vacation/year which increases to 4 weeks at the 10 year mark plus sick time (I don't remember how much specifically because I have a bunch banked).

  15. Anonymous

    unlimited

  16. Anonymous

    Unlimited and 6 years, but I've had unlimited since 2 year mark when it was implemented

  17. Anonymous

    13 years at company - 25 vacation days, 2 floating, 9 holiday days

  18. Hillary Patch

    3 years: 11 PTO, 5 floating holidays

  19. Kristin Qualters

    My company offers unlimited PTO. However, in my first 11 months, I have been able to take 2 days of PTO. Meanwhile, my boss took over 3 weeks and would add cute notes on his calendar, such as, “in the Caribbean somewhere on a beach. “ beware of unlimited PTO.

  20. Anonymous

    I have seen articles backing this up. Could be a "mixed bag". Apparently many employees do not feel secure in taking as many days off as if it were spelled out Also, I imagine that since you could take off "any time", perhaps assignments are not so carefully planned and it becomes difficult to take time off?

    My recent experience was as a contract employee where I got a grand total of 24 hours for whatever I wanted to use it for. Turned out that I got paid for 3 "shut down" days from the client company. Fine by me. I took vacation at the end of my contract.

  21. Anonymous

    15 days, for vacation/misc use.

    However this doesn’t count sick time where they don’t keep track if you need time for a doctor/rest/etc as long as work gets done in a reasonable time frame.

    9 years, remote work with high travel.

  22. Anonymous

    I have 20 days of PTO , in addition to the company paid holidays and have been with the company 7 years

  23. Anonymous

    5 yrs-17 days PTO, 10 days STO, 11 paid holidays

  24. Eileen M

    18-years of employment: 20 vacation, 10 sick, and 11 paid holidays (2 of which are floating holidays).

    My husband has about the same years of experience and has 11 paid holidays and unlimited paid time off including sick or medical leave (I'm jealous!)

  25. Anonymous

    we get 4 weeks- including sick time- worked for 12 yrs

  26. Anonymous

    A tiny insurance agency in Maine. We believe that it's important to treat our staff well and that burnout is bad. I'm very lucky.

    And at some point in the distant past, someone decided we should get all federal holidays off (plus Patriots' Day in April). No employee is going to argue with that.

  27. Anonymous

    I've been with my current employer for 6 mos.

    PPT: 6 days

    PTO: 9 days

    Paid Holidays: 8 days

    After 5 years, I will get 5 more PTO days.

  28. Vicki Appleby Bentley

    Almost 16 years: 20 days vacation, 10 days sick leave, 14 paid holidays + birthday :)

  29. Anonymous

    6 years, unlimited, extra volunteer days, additional holidays like Juneteenth, and presidential voting hours allotted. Work from anywhere weeks. remote when I want, in office when I want.

  30. EileenKG

    7 holidays PTO includes sick time 28 days

  31. Anonymous

    25+ PTO, 10+ years

  32. Anonymous

    15days 3+years

  33. Paulla Fetzek, MSEd

    Hello!

    My company no longer offers PTO - they're on the Flex Plan. In some ways this is better and in others much worse.

    I just started my 21st year here.

  34. Anonymous

    I get 18 PTO days after 5 years with the company. Plus another 12 days non accruing management leave.

    I work in a system that has collective bargaining units for almost all levels of employees.

  35. Cathy Udv

    20 d vac, 4per, 8sick

    21 years

    hit this level at 10yrs

  36. Rhiannon Luck

    5 yrs, doesn’t matter time @ my employer. I work in healthcare: 6.15hrs/ pay period. 7 paid holidays/ yr. No sick time. No real parental leave - they “let you apply” for short term disability- which is weeks 2-6 @60%. Anything else you take for parental leave is unpaid/fmla.

  37. Anonymous

    15 days of PTO with no separate sick time. Been there 3.5 years

  38. Anonymous

    20 days PTO/Sick time.
    6 months.

  39. Anonymous

    5 years

    11 Holidays

    6 sick days (fully remote w/flexible schedule) - accruable

    20 vacation - accruable

    2 floating holidays

  40. Anonymous

    4 weeks-160 hours. 36 hours sick time. Worked for company for 18 months

  41. Anonymous

    Unlimited PTO from day 1…I typically take 3 weeks annually

  42. Anonymous

    My former company offered up to 32 total

    paid vacation day a year, for employees who had been there 10 years or

    longer. PTO hours accrued each paycheck and total

    earned time, if you banked it, was capped at

    10 weeks in non “use or lose” states. Since I have been looking for a new job, standard offer seems to be 2-3 weeks to start.

  43. Cat

    5.5 hours every 2 weeks. If worked 40 hours each week to accrue. 6 paid holidays per year. the office is closed 4 days and we are required to use PTO or take unpaid.

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