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USA, 2 weeks/year but they don't expire and I can roll them over if I want to.

I usually vacation for 3 weeks at a time, it's a good amount of time to spend on one place I've never been and see a bunch.

In the UK, for a university. 26 days + 8 days bank holidays. I've been offered the chance of 'buying' an extra 10 days (salary sacrifice, spread over the year), I might go for it.

UK. 30 days plus Bank Holidays as paid leave. Also, we have a flexible working system where we can work additional hours to accrue up to five days' leave. Longest continuous period I've taken off was three weeks. It's also WFH four days a week.

When I was applying for this job I was offered - and accepted - a job at an American company which paid a few thousand more but didn't do flexi hours or WFH. It actually felt pretty good letting them know I wouldn't be starting and why.

U.S. (California)

• unlimited vacation time (my boss very much lets me use it too)
• 40 “sick” hours a year
• “ bereavement leave “ (death in family)
• 12 holidays

I will admit I am lucky for being in the US. It most likely helps that I work for one of those evil Silicon Valley tech companies.

Ireland... 25 days PTO which is standard, minimum is 20 days. Plus public holidays, around 9 or so.

7 days sick leave at full pay, minimum is 5 days paid by gov at standard rate so not matched to your wages.

Usually take a week off on holiday, a few days in a row for school breaks, otherwise random days here and there for stuff.

USA, tech start-up. "unlimited PTO" and probably about a month's worth per year. Also full WFH but that's because of a medical exemption.

While I'm at my desk, I work extremely hard but don't usually work more than 35ish hours per week as I my brain can't sustain much more.

Murica. 10 days given per year. 10 days taken. Use it for last two weeks of the year

USA. I accumulate an hour of PTO for every 40 hours I work, up to a maximum of 40 hours a year. I have to use it pretty sparingly.

USA
I currently have 80hrs of vacation and 40hrs of sick-time + a floating holiday
Also the major holidays
And a winter shutdown (~one and a half weeks)

US. 30 days per year, plus all federal holidays and a handful of extra days. Also unlimited sick leave with supervisor approval.

Edit: Missed the other part of your question. I usually take a week here or there, but try to take at least one stretch of 2-3+ weeks every year.

Germany

I've been off work for three or four years now. Long Covid is a bitch. The paperwork was monstrous but now me and my wife get paid by a combination of the state's pension, health insurance so my wife gets paid for caring for me and my unable-to-work (can't think of the proper name) insurance.

But usually I'd get 26 to 30 vacation days per year.

I have 4 week of vacation per year can't move them. Boss is pretty chill so he give us 2 extra. They are not paid vacation, but i get canada EI for those.

We also have 13 (14?) holiday These are paid by money taken from my salary each week( +- 15%) and given back twice year a in a lump sum (btw 3k-5k depending on the hours you worked) a month before our 2 week mandated vacation.

I'm also permanently on the canada EI. I just went and look it up, i could go 34 week without working (minus the 4 mandatory vacation week) and they would pay me 668$/ week, but i have to stay in canada to get that.

The Greatest Country On Earth, Pennsylvania.

40 hours

US and I get I think six weeks a year off.

It's been a while since I did the math to figure how much I get but I think it was about six. I can take it more or less when I want. The only exceptions are around winter holiday time. That can get a little tricky, but other wise I can basically take off when I want.

Most of my time off is a day here or there. Rarely do I take a real vacation.

France - never got some since i always was in internship/short/seasonal contracts. I have huge free time in unemployment periods though, and some are 'paid' by social aids, around 1 week each month if i worked the previous one. The legal basis is 30 days otherwise.

USA. 3 weeks vacation max out at 4, 1 week sick time, 1 week "personal time". 10 holidays but we are running 24/7 so if you are scheduled to work you get time and a half those days plus 8 hours of extra pay. You get paid out any sick/personal time you don't use but vacation days no longer roll over. I liked saving up 2 years of vacation and fucking off for two months.

Canada, 6 weeks plus 1-2 weeks during xmas closure plus unlimited sick days

US, in theory, unlimited PTO, but here's the problem in the US...

PTO is up to your employer, and while my employer is very generous, my wife's is not.

So I can't really take a holiday. I'd LIKE to, I have time available to take, and places I'd like to go, but it's not like I can tell my wife "Sucks you have to work, anyway, going to Vegas! See you next week!"

20 days pto plus around 8 paid holidays that are set days.

Union job, America.

Norway: 25 working days. And the pay is 12% of whatever you earned the previous year.

On top of that there are the public holidays. 2025 list, lazy copypasta:

1 Jan Wed New Year's Day
17 Apr Thu Maundy Thursday
18 Apr Fri Good Friday
20 Apr Sun Easter Sunday
21 Apr Mon Easter Monday
1 May Thu Labour Day
17 May Sat Constitution Day
29 May Thu Ascension Day
8 Jun Sun Whit Sunday
9 Jun Mon Whit Monday
25 Dec Thu Christmas Day
26 Dec Fri 2nd Day of Christmas

UK. I get about 30 days plus bank holidays, pretty standard at my firm that people push it up to the max. Biggest perk I get is being able to work in between days off remotely, so I can be away for 3 weeks and work 5 days, so it would only cost me 10 days off. Its great for traveling.

Daughter is a teacher at a private school, she gets about 17 weeks or 85 days plus the 1 bank holiday that doesn't fall inside school holidays. Thats after teacher training days, which are days the teachers have to be at school but the kids do not. I would kill for that allocation, but not the dealing with other peoples kids every day part.

Spain

Vacation: 30 natural days or if your employer is ok with you picking and choosing days here and there, 22 working days.

Holidays: around 14, or 15 between national, regional and local holidays.

Edit: depending on what collective labor agreement your job falls into you may have some more vacation days because upper limits to the number of working days in a year, I'm not sure how that works but I end up having an extra week each year.

Japan gives me 20 days a year, can bank up to 40. Plus public holidays

Poland - 0 as I have trash grey market contract.

US government job in Kansas

A new employee starts with: 1 discretionary day of their choosing 9 holidays (sometimes 10 if Xmas is on a Tuesday or Thursday) 12 days sick leave (accrues if not used) 12 days vacation leave (there are max, so people have to use it eventually) For a total of 34 or 35 days of leave

I have been working for 15 years so I get the max of 21 days of vac, making my total leave 43 (or 44) days of leave available each year.

I tend to use vacation for two or three one week vacations and then sprinkle the rest around for other needs. The few times that I have had to work overtime I can choose the overtime at 1.5 vacation leave instead of extra pay so a couple of years I got a few extra days of vacation to make up for overtime. I will get funeral leave which is a separate thing from vacation or sick leave when my father in law passes away in the next couple of months.

While I make less as a state employee than in the private sector, I don't have obligated overtime and I have never been denied leave in the couple decades of working at the state. Plus the private sector in the state is not required to provide any paid leave at all, which is a fucking travesty.

I'm in the US

I get 3 weeks of PTO a year and 3 weeks of sick leave