4+ weeks of time off: what do you do for work?

[Anonymous]

Consulting company - IT services. 27 days PTO/sick leave and 10 holidays. We can only roll 200 hours over year to year.

I find it hard to take 200+ hours off.

[Anonymous]

World Bank

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school teacher.
11 weeks off for summer
2 weeks winter break
1 week spring break
3 personal days & 5 sick days.

Is it all paid time off?

[Anonymous]

Social Worker - 5 weeks of vacation + 12 sick days. But that is only because I have been at the same company for 20y.

[Anonymous]

I'm in operations for a B2B company. Been there 15 years. 25 days PTO from years 10-14, 30 days PTO at 15+ years. Plus 11 holidays.

None of it rolls over. They went to an "unlimited" PTO system several years ago so they wouldn't have to pay out and allow roll overs. That slowly morphed to "unlimited with suggested guidelines up to" the amounts we previously accrued. Now they don't even mention unlimited anymore, it is just untracked up to those maximums. Total scam but whatever.

It is really hard to take that much. I'm at 25 days this year, and our fiscal (and PTO) year runs Sept - August. I decided to start tracking it because I was feeling burnt out and realized I wasn't taking enough PTO.

I have a week of vacation in July and a Friday in August, but then I realized I still had 7 more days to use. I decided to take every Friday off for the rest of the summer, which is much less of an inconvenience to my team than me taking another week. No meetings on Fridays. And my boss still looked annoyed. Sorry dude I didn't travel during the height of the pandemic (while he was going on international vacations last December). But I'm taking every single one of my days, it is part of my compensation.

Next year I am going to try to be better spacing it out, but I reminded him that means a full week every other month in addition to holidays.

[Anonymous]

Public school health admin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Private school teacher.
11 weeks off for summer
2 weeks winter break
1 week spring break
3 personal days & 5 sick days.

Is it all paid time off?

No. Even if teachers are given paychecks on a 12 month basis, they are only paid for the days they are at school.

[Anonymous]

Magazine editor at a non-profit org. I get six weeks vacation. Unfortunately, I lose vacation hours almost every pay period because it’s really hard to actually take vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attorney. 5.5 weeks of vacation, 1 personal day, 10 holidays plus sick leave. Always at use or lose.

I’m an attorney with this much leave but I could never take 4 consecutive weeks off. I’ll be going on a 10 day vacation this summer and that’s about as long as I can get away with (and I’ll be checking email and doing work while I’m out). I’m in house.

[Anonymous]

Risk Manager

I accrue 24 days and call roll up to 120 hours. We were allowed to roll more from 2020-2021 since no one was taking much time off. My kids are teens so I don't have to use a lot for their needs anymore, which has made a difference in my leave balance.

This year our org is closing between Christmas and New Years so I'll need to use more leave before December than I normally do so I don't lose it.

We also get 10 paid holidays and during the summer we can take several 1/2 days that don't count against PTO

[Anonymous]

Government lawyer. I earn 8 hours of annual leave a pay period and 4 hours of sick leave per pay period, so a little over 5 weeks of annual leave and 2 and a half weeks of sick leave per year. You don’t start earning 8 hrs annual leave per pay period until you are 15 years in. I take 2 weeks off in a row in the summer and usually a week at Christmas, and scattered other time throughout the year.

[Anonymous]

School district employee, 18 days of annual leave, 14 days of sick and 4 days personal, total of 36 days. I also get a week off in Spring and 10 days off in winter. Not a Teacher.

[Anonymous]

Fed 6 years in. Technically I accrue 18 days vacation time, but if you stack on top of federal holidays it can work out to 4 weeks. I also always take time off instead of cash for performance awards.

I've never taken more than 2 weeks vacation in a year though. Why? Because I had to save it for parental leave. Figures that they'd pass paid parental leave right after I have my last baby.

[Anonymous]

Large nonprofit. Generous benefits in lieu of high salaries.

[Anonymous]

Non profit fundraiser for a small org. I get 25 days (combined PTO and sick) plus 2 designated weeks off when our org closes. We get a grace period of a few months to use our days but no rolllover. There is no way I could take all my time and still have our org function. It's nice to know I have the time if I got sick, but really I'd rather have a higher salary.