Pay and benefits: how much PTO do you get?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:22 days vacation, 12 sick days per year.

Also two floating holidays per year, and 7.5 regular holidays.

Sounds great! Is it balanced by low pay or do you just have a good employer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

I'm the pp you quoted. We're TTC and so I've been saving my sick leave for 7 years. I also really need foot surgery which I'd need to be out for 3 weeks (at least) for so I just can't do it. I feel pretty stuck right now! Any sick leave I take feels like I'm taking away from my children.

[Anonymous]

Paid fairly well for my admin field. 10 days vacation, 11 days sick, plus all the federal holidays and the day after TG. We also usually close early the day before TG, Christmas Eve and NYE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

I'm the pp you quoted. We're TTC and so I've been saving my sick leave for 7 years. I also really need foot surgery which I'd need to be out for 3 weeks (at least) for so I just can't do it. I feel pretty stuck right now! Any sick leave I take feels like I'm taking away from my children.

I didn't mean to sound like I was saying that you had it good, just that the lack of paid maternity leave in this country sucks. I felt exactly the same about my maternity leave. All I could do was save my PTO. It meant that any time I took before they were born came directly out of my pocket in the form of unpaid leave after they were born. Which is where you're at - either unpaid or you don't take it. For us it was more important for me to take the time off so I had several months unpaid and we're still paying for it not (kids are 2 and 5).

[Anonymous]

We have a generous PTO schedule - 25 days the first year, 30 thereafter. That doesn't include the 10 holidays we also get.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

We get 5 weeks and I thought that was chintzy. Sorry, PP.

[Anonymous]

I work for a private employer. 18 days of PTO (all-inclusive, so this is vacation, sick leave etc), only 5 of which are allowed to be carried over, and then must be used by March 15 of the following year. Goes up by 5 days after 3 years. 8 federal holidays. Given that this is a huge company with billions (yes with a "b") of net income every year, I think this is pretty cheap. Health insurance is pretty crappy too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

The last pay period of the year you get 10 hours, so feds in this leave earning bracket get 20 days (rather than the 19.5 mentioned above). (Can you tell I'm also in this situation and a little obsessive about my leave balance!)

In 1 more year I hit 15 years of service and start getting 8 hours/pay period (26 days a year).

[Anonymous]

15% discount on ESPP plan
7.5% 401k match, no limit on amount, no end of year disbursement crap
Deferred comp plan with 7.5% match
50 cent on the dollar FSA match up to $5,000
Unlimited sick days (take what you need)
Take what you want vacation (most do 5 weeks)
2 months paid maternity
Work from home / flex time
Subsidized gym membership ($15/mo)

[Anonymous]

Almost five weeks. I've been here over 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

I'm the pp you quoted. We're TTC and so I've been saving my sick leave for 7 years. I also really need foot surgery which I'd need to be out for 3 weeks (at least) for so I just can't do it. I feel pretty stuck right now! Any sick leave I take feels like I'm taking away from my children.

You can request leave donations for the surgery, but I agree that short-term disability would be great. I had to use it twice in my last job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed who makes 80k and I get 6 hours a pay period of annual leave= 19.5 annual leave days.

We get a lot of BS holidays like MLK, presidents day and Columbus day, but I'd much prefer the day after Thanksgiving or the day after Christmas.

Ditto. We also get 4 hrs sick leave per pay period.

Yes feds do get "sick leave," but I hate it. I would much, much prefer like 3 "personal days" and then also having short term disability or maternity or something like that for more serious issues. Sick leave is VERY abused by feds who've been there for a long time (and thus have hundreds of hours saved) whereas younger employees can't save enough for maternity or when things go wrong (broken leg, surgery etc). Most fed women in their 20s only have enough sick leave for maybe 4 weeks of maternity leave.

On the other hand, 4 weeks of paid maternity leave is (unfortunately) more than many people get, myself included.

We get 5 weeks and I thought that was chintzy. Sorry, PP.

Really? I use about 12 PTO days per calendar year. 5 weeks is a heckuva lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15% discount on ESPP plan
7.5% 401k match, no limit on amount, no end of year disbursement crap
Deferred comp plan with 7.5% match
50 cent on the dollar FSA match up to $5,000
Unlimited sick days (take what you need)
Take what you want vacation (most do 5 weeks)
2 months paid maternity
Work from home / flex time
Subsidized gym membership ($15/mo)

Where do you work and are the salaries competitive or just the benefits?

[Anonymous]

$51k. 10 days vacation, 8 days sick per year. It's accrued by paycheck, so you can't use it all at once (i.e. can't take a 10 day vacation in June because you only have 5 days accrued) until the end of the year and then it disappears/doesn't carry over. The worst.