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My maximum vacation balance based on my years of service is 432 hours. It is why I take 2 to 3 days off every month to keep below my maximum. I stay hovered around the 420 hour range of vacation. 75% of the year I'm on a 3 day weekend.

I also have a balance of compensatory time (comp time) from working overtime or holidays you can take time off instead of extra money if you want. We are allowed to keep 80 hours of that on the books and anything over 80 at the end of the month they just pay out as extra pay.

So at all times between my vacation and comp time I have 500 hours on the books. This isn't counting my paid sick leave which is separate and there is NO cap on that and you can just keep it adding up and up and up. We get 18 paid sick days a year.

Needless to say I get a lot of paid time off each year. Outside of people who are in teaching and get summers off i pretty much always get more time off than anyone I know. I actually have an awesome job. Good pay for the area and amazing benefits. Free/cheap insurance, 200% employer contribution to my retirement from what I put in. No complaints.