How much paid vacation do you get?

[firefly_ris]

Zero... independent contractor.

 

[tvguy]

Can you please explain what you mean by this? As a teacher, my contract day is 7:45 am to 4:15. Students are in our classes from 8:05-4:05 this year. Are you saying that if I can teach my 7 classes in 6 hours I can leave early? If so, I need to figure out how I can teach my 6x57 min periods and 1x30 min advisory period in only 6 hours!

To answer the OPs question, we get up to 9-15 cumulative days per year, depending on how long you've been in the district. We can use them for any reason but there are restrictions on when we can use them. We can't take the day before or after a holiday break or we get docked $500-$650 plus lose the day. Our principal has decided that he will write people up if they use more than 2 days this year. (I've already used 2.5 and when he tried to write me up I laughed at him and refused to sign the paper. I'm not his favorite teacher right now as I'm fighting him on this.)

Then that was negotiated in your contract by your union. Teachers in the district I live in get a 1 hour prep period 4 days a week, and 4 hours on Thursdays which are half days for students.
And wow, your students are in session until 4 pm? When my kids played soccer and Little League I had issues with coaches wanting to start practices at 3 pm. The public school district we live in is out at 2:15 pm. My kids were in private that went to 3 pm. Both start at 8 am.

 

[tvguy]

I agree with part of your theory because certainly many salaried people work long hours to accomplish their tasks, but as mentioned above teachers (and probably many other salaried workers too) have minimum hours they are expected to be there and ALSO minimum tasks they are expected to get done. I only addressed paid days off, because teachers are paid for days in which attendance is expected. We sign a contract that is very specific about days and hours where attendance is required. I'm honestly confused by what your post has to do with paid time off. I've known many salaried workers who get vacation days as part of their package. Others get contracted only for what they do work, like teachers.

Yes, there can be times they have to be there clearly, because if your class is in session, you need to be there. I'm talking about the prep and grading portions.

 

[tvguy]

I have 28 days of PTO a year and we can carry up to 20 from one year to the next.

However, as of January 1st, I will have unlimited PTO. Holiday and Bereavement will still be separate banks of hours.

Yeah, the lawyers my company used strongly suggested moving from vacation, personal and sick days to PTO. That won't be happening anytime soon because they save a lot of money not having to pay sick time when someone leaves. And this year double time for holiday work went away. Holidays are never days off in my industry. Now, you HAVE to take another day off. And you can have no more that 16 hours holiday time on the books or you lose the time off.

 

[scrapquitler]

Husband is self employed. No paid vacation, no sick days, no paid holidays.

He is considering becoming an employee of his main client. They offer unlimited paid vacation, sick time and holidays. The theory is that you have to get your work done, and if you need to take time off, you are a responsible adult and can figure it out. Hubby says that based on what he sees when he deals with their employees, there is no abuse of this arrangement. This main client has also recently closed their only office in our area, and everyone works 100% remotely.

 

[Minnesota!]

4 weeks vacation, 2 weeks personal, and can carry over up to 3 weeks. I will get one more week of vacation in a few years...when I hit 25 years.

I also have about 900 hours of sick leave...

 

[hopemax]

DH gets 4 weeks. His old job, they had switched to unlimited, so negotiating for the 4 weeks at his new job was pretty important. We're at the point in our lives when we want to do more international travel. Doing that, plus visiting the family, burns up a lot of days. He also gets sick days and personal days, so I'm not sure how many days in total he has. He's director level in Tech, and his employers have been good with the "Work hard, play hard," mentality, and know that a few extra days recharges the batteries so people are more motivated during those periods where you are working 12 hr days to get a release done.

 

[Hrhpd]

I've never heard of this arrangement before, barring another pp up-thread that mentioned it. How does it work, functionally? What happens to "those" people that take too much time off? How would you even judge that? On the face of it, it sounds amazing - don't feel like working today? Don't go to work. But I'm sure it must be more complicated than that.

For our company, there really aren't any parameters. However, most people take less than what they had before.

No time sheets and no scheduling of vacations. You can't just leave the office empty, but on mgt, you just assign one of your team to be your acting director/manager, etc.

You can wake up and decide you need a day off, however, as statedcabove, if you abuse this, you won't get your work done, and then that creates a performance issue that can be addressed.

Many of the relatively new think tanks have moved to the unlimited pto model. It is becoming more popular in the tech world.

 

[mummabear]

In NZ the minimum is 4 week paid vacation (called annual leave), plus 11 public holidays and 5 sick days (all paid).
In fact next year you can get 10 days off by using only 3 annual leave days across Easter break.

 

[disykat]

Yes, there can be times they have to be there clearly, because if your class is in session, you need to be there. I'm talking about the prep and grading portions.

I still have no idea what you are talking about that has anything to do with paid time off. We are contracted to be there a certain number of specific days from start time to end time, regardless of whether class is in session or not.

 

[SirDuff]

Six weeks vacation (can carry over four, I think)
Eight paid holidays (the exact ones given change year-to-year)
Two discretionary days (cannot be carried over)
Ten sick days (cannot be carried over)

An extra week every one to three years for "home leave" (and they pay the airfare home - but you have to be going back to your recognized country of residence or it doesn't count as 'home leave'. Frequency depends on where you're stationed.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I get 27 days PTO (216 hours) and can accumulate up to 432, then would lose it. The most I've had in the bank was about 400, and last year took a lot of vacation, so I have a little over 300 hours banked. The most I've taken at one time was 3-1/2 weeks, but had my laptop to put in a few hours here and there to take care of emergencies.

 

[morgan98]

For our company, there really aren't any parameters. However, most people take less than what they had before.

No time sheets and no scheduling of vacations. You can't just leave the office empty, but on mgt, you just assign one of your team to be your acting director/manager, etc.

You can wake up and decide you need a day off, however, as statedcabove, if you abuse this, you won't get your work done, and then that creates a performance issue that can be addressed.

Many of the relatively new think tanks have moved to the unlimited pto model. It is becoming more popular in the tech world.

For ours, when I say scheduling vacations, I lose the term very loosely. We do not have to schedule way ahead of time, nor has anyone I know EVER really been denied taking a vacation. It is more of a courtesy so your team knows and so client needs can be met. The only reason it goes on a timesheet is that we have to do timesheets so we can bill.

Yes, the studies all do show people actually use less vacation, I would guess quite a bit of that comes from the fact that people are not cramming in days to not lose time, as there is no time to lose!

It is also becoming more common in my industry. The kids off of campus love the benefit, although for the first 2 years they get 20 days of PTO, even under the unlimited model. The theory behind this is to somewhat "train" them that 20 days as a new staff is more appropriate than say 35 days.

 

[Skellingtonj]

I’m at 10 years and it’s 3 or 4 weeks.

 

[indimom]

I accrue PTO time based on hours worked. Currently I have around 200 hours in my bank. The PTO bank does roll over year to year, but is limited to 6 weeks (240 hours). You will not accrue more than that. You can 'cash out' your bank twice a year though. PTO time is the only bank and can be used for sick, personal, vacation, bereavement, or just a 'mental health day'.
I take one of those about every six weeks, the day after my on-call weekend. I just can't work a full week, be on call for 60 hours, then come in and work another full week. It's mentally and physically exhausting. So, I just request a PTO day every Monday after my on-call weekend.

As a full-time employee (40 hours) with overtime, I can easily take about 3-4 weeks a year and still hold over 160 hours in my bank at all times; and, that's how I choose to use it. I'd rather have the time off than the 'cash out.'

DH gets 4 weeks. Their PTO time is based on years worked. (2 weeks a year for anyone under 10 years, with another week added every 5 years after that...)
They max out at 6 weeks a year. As a supervisor, he doesn't take as much time off as I do, because he feels like they need him there, and he cashes out his time at the end of the year. He likes that check. lol

 

[Kitty 34]

MY DH finally worked up to 6 weeks but that was after working for his company for 25 years!

I was a substitute teacher so all the time off I obviously had was not paid for. On long term jobs if I worked 30 days I'd get a "sick" day.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I was a substitute teacher so all the time off I obviously had was not paid for. On long term jobs if I worked 30 days I'd get a "sick" day.

Same here. I sub now, so get a lot of time off, but none of it paid. - I don't work in the summer, or on any of the school breaks, and I can take any other days off that I need. I simply go on the computer, choose jobs for the days I want, and get paid a flat fee per day I work. (Theoretically, there are also days where no jobs are available, but it rarely happens on days I'm looking.)

 

[Momto2minniemice]

About 4 weeks off a year, but must use it on the weekends as well as weekdays. In addition have unlimited sick time off.

 

[lovemygoofy]

I have been with this company two years now and I get 3 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks PTO and 10 paid holidays. I can carry over 2 weeks a year and though I am salaried, I can bank flex time over the standard 40 hours a week so I have about 30 hours flex time. All vacation and flex time accrument starts over on my anniversary date of work.

 

[kmb584]

To start, my office gives 20 days PTO that is used for both vacation and sick days. After 3 years, it's increased to 28 days PTO, 5 years gives an employee 35 days. We max out at ten years with 42 days PTO.