Current Events > How does annual leave work in the US?

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In the UK most people get between 20 and 25 paid days per year. On top of this you get a handful of paid days for free like Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Whats the average number of annua leave days in the US for someone working full time?
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i live in UK and i get 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays

cant wait for brexit to happen and for british companies to give us 10 days annual leave instead since we wont be bound to EU laws on workers rights

its going to be great
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Parappa09 posted...

i live in UK and i get 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays

cant wait for brexit to happen and for british companies to give us 10 days annual leave instead since we wont be bound to EU laws on workers rights

its going to be great

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I have accumulated up to 3 weeks vacation.
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Most places you have to build PTO in my experience but if its a decent job, 4 weeks per year usually
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There's no minimum vacation in the USA regulated federally. It depends on where you work. It's up to the employer to give the vacation days. Professionals get more than retail/fast food workers usually, for example.
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There is no law mandating paid leave in the United States, outside of government employment.
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Most employers in the US don't offer this unless you have moved up the ladder and been with the company for many years.

Otherwise, you have to be lucky and land a coushy job with a company making bank, and these jobs are usually white collar.
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I get about 25 hours earned vacation per check or some shit. Right now I have about 250 hours saved for the year, 100 hours of sick hours, and a week of professional days

About 6-8 weeks total
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Depends on the job
If you're working a shit job here, good luck with getting paid time off, or ANY time off in the first place.

Even if you work an ok job, some of them have an unspoken "do not use your time off" culture.

Some are better or worse than others, but for the most part I think the average person gets little/none.

Depends on the company. At mine, I get 10 hours a month that can be carried over into a new year. Max of 320 hours. I have like 250 and I'm gonna cash out 40 hours in January
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Well at one job I got nothing--I could take time off without pay if I wanted but that was it.

At another job I got three weeks to use whenever but the company actually closed for two weeks a year so I pretty much had to use it then. I had to work my way up to three, too. My first year I got one so I had to strategically slack off so I would be coming up on deadlines and have to work anyway.

At this job, I get ten paid holidays and two weeks vacation, which is pretty sweet tbh.
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You get what your company gives you and say thank you
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No idea.

I get vacation days whenever I want...which is basically never because I want my company to prosper.
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