I get 168 hours of paid time off per year, which works out to four weeks and one day. This is used for both sick time and vacation. I can’t carry it over to the next year. It is strictly use it or lose it. (Rare exceptions have been made.) It was like this at my last employer as well.

This is my second December at this job and the second year that my boss has had to hurry up to take time off so that she wouldn’t lose it. I have a feeling that this is her standard operating procedure.

My husband currently gets 200 hours of paid time off. (He has been there for 21 years.) He is allowed to roll over 80 hours to the next year. I think that this year he will roll 40 hours into this “bank.”

I get three weeks plus 4 floating holidays. We are capped at 25 days; at that level we stop accumulating. We can carry over the whole 25 days, we just won’t accrue any more.

California does not allow a company to take back earned vacation time, but it does allow an employer to cap the accrual.

5 weeks a year (and unlimited sick time) and I can roll over one year’s worth of vacation.

Vacations must be approved in advance and not impact operations… so don’t plan on taking it all in December because it will be denied.

@tom_g I wonder what the differences are based on where different jellies live. @zenvelo‘s mention of being in California made me think of this.

I get 25 days holiday plus 8 public days which works out at almost 7 weeks. We can at a pinch carry over 1 week but it has to be taken before the end of March of the following year which is what I plan to do. I am never off sick but I would resent having to use up my holidays for ill health.

I get 240 hours a year. We can carry over our vacation up to 240 hours. An entry level job here gets 40 hours a year and can accrue up to 240 hours.

I get 307.5 hours (41 days) annual leave and can carry 37.5 hours over to the next year with out having to ask and can carry over with management approval.

My husband gets 5 weeks, and they used to pay him for unused vacation at the end of the year. We really got used to this bonus, but this year they put an end to it. He is required to use it or lose it.

I used to get three weeks when I worked full time, and I could not roll any over. Not only that, but we had to take a week at a time, it was not done in days and over a week needed super duper special approval. We did get two personal days in addition to the three weeks. Oh, and for a short time I worked for a company where I was getting 4 weeks combined vacation and sick no rollover.

My husband used to get 20 days (four weeks) and couldn’t roll any over, but now in his new company he can roll over 10 I think? A portion of them anyway. One company he worked for they always got Christmas through New Years off, the entire company did, plus he had three weeks in addition, no rollover.

^^^ “super duper special approval” lol Yes, having vacation and GETTING your vacation days “approved” are two entirely different things. haha

@Coloma I have a funny story of a woman who worked for me at that company who asked me for two weeks. She told me she was going to get a brow lift and needed two weeks together. She was in her 50’s and looked great, face and body. I looked at her, not saying no, but looking at her face, because I couldn’t see why she thought she needed a brow lift so much. She then launched into how she walks around all day keeping her brows up, meaning a permanent state of raising her eyebrows, and goes home with a headache every day. She then let her face relax, and then raised them up again. LMAO! It was hysterical. I gave her the time. She wound up doing a whole face lift, it was fabulous.

@JLeslie LMAO! OMG! I just TRIED to do that, headache? Doing that all day? hahaha

We worked in retail, she literally was in front of customers all day. I don’t think I can do it and carry on a conversation.

In my current job, I get the equivalent of 3 weeks plus 7 sick days in a pooled PTO (paid time off) accrual system, and we are allowed to carry over just 40 hours. We progressively switched to this system last year, so I had a ton of time I had to use last year. Even though we accrue the time off, we are allowed to borrow against future time; some of my coworkers run mostly in the negative, but they still have kids that results in having to use more time off for them.

Our time off does need to be pre-approved, and they don’t allow people to take more than a week off at a stretch. I suppose they might make exceptions, but I don’t know anyone who’s tried it.

General Mills capped us at 5 weeks, but the local plant policy was no more than 3 from a Dept. at a time. I mastered “the first full week of October ” and 3-day holiday extensions.

Work the system.

I get 5-weeks of paid time off that can be used for vacation, sick, or personal time. I cannot, however, carry any of it over into the next calendar year.

My weekly schedule is also built on flex time. I get paid for 40-hours/week, but I don’t have to be on campus for all of them. Usually one or two days per week I leave at 1PM.

I get 6 weeks per year now, based on my years with the company. (In addition to that we have about 8 holidays and indefinite sick time – since I never do more than a couple of days per year, that’s never been a thing that I track.)

At this level, we stop accumulating at some 400-odd hours, but I can carry that number of hours indefinitely. It’s funny, in a way, but the longer I stay here the more I like being here, and the less anxious I am about my accumulated hours. (I never approach the 400 hours, though, because I do take the odd day off in good weather and bad, just to enjoy the day, and I take a week or two in the summer and another in the fall, as a general rule.)

I think I have about 4 weeks in the bank right now, though I just got back from taking Thanksgiving week off.

Thanks all. Wow. Many of you have pretty decent vacation time and policies.

I get that many companies no longer want to allow rollover, but it’s getting absurd at my company. December = everyone hurry up and use all remaining vacation days before we lose them, so December = not much work happens.

@tom_g I have found more and more companies are going towards the vacation sick leave combination. I’m not sure what I think about it, but it does usually mean more “vacation” time for people.

I work in education so I get summers off. Sick time can be cashed out upon retiring. The sick time does rollover but our two personal days a year can only rollover once. If someone needs more time off they take unpaid leave (nobody gets fired here due to that whole union business even if they’ve missed 6 weeks for non-FMLA reasons).

6 weeks.
Maximum roll-over 2 weeks.

3 weeks paid vacation and 1 week personal. 12 sick days and 12 holidays.

My husband gets 1 week paid vacation with no rollover. He also gets paid holiday for New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving day including the day after and Christmas. He’s only been with this company for 3 years, so I’m sure he’ll eventually receive 2 weeks vacation at some point.

There are no paid sick days with this company. My husband had to use up all of his vacation days in April when he became very ill with a bout of diverticulitis.

@jonsblond One week after being there three years?! That’s awful.

@JLeslie The lack of vacation time and sick time is awful, but he’s finally being paid a decent wage. At least they pay their employees well.

Can he take an unpaid week of vacation if he wanted to?