Sitting on the couch and watching this during my third summer vacation week. We get 5 weeks (4 weeks for the summer and 1 for the winter) in total here in Finland. Some companies allow your to swap your holiday bonus pay to extra vacation days. So in total, you can get 7 weeks of PTO days + plus all the paid public holidays. If I'm not mistaken, there are 5-10 public holidays depending on which weekday the holidays land on every year.
5 weeks standard. 1 for personal development granted by my employer and i get a salary bump which i can use to buy a total of extra 5 weeks if i want or I can go for the cash. Sick or dentist will not dip into your days. Paid delivery leave (months). Paid parental leave (x days per month for a year).
Finland was the first country that came to my mind! I'm from Canada and can confirm we're on the low to mid end. 2 weeks plus ~10 holiday days is pretty standard here. Then once every ~5 years you might get 1 week more. Side note: many, many people here consider Finland, Norway, Sweeden and Denmark to be the best countries in the world.
I was thinking that Austria takes ages to give you 30 days annual leave as we only need to have been working over a year to same employer to start getting the full 30 days. Then there is the "pekkanen" which is 12.5 days if you're working hourly job.
Germany: Almost nobody has only the vacation days stipulated in the law. The law only provides the basis for the collective agreement between employers and unions. Most people have six weeks, i.e. 30 days. You have the right (and very often the obligation) to take two weeks in a row at least once a year. In addition, there are public holidays depending on the federal state (10-13 days)
also some companys and most jobs in the public sector have the 1-3 days for birth, death, even adoption (actual days depending on the degree of relationship and the age of the adopted child) and day(s) to move/relocate. There is also a legal entitlement to get an part-time contract. You get additional 5 days off (per law) if you have a disability of 50% or more. This is all based on a 37,5 - 42 hour in 5 days work week. There also are laws how long you can work continously until a break, and max amount of 10 hours per workday, and how long the "resting-time" between 2 shifts has to be. In principle all germans can be oblidged to jury duty and election helper (both would be public services which your employer has to give you the free time for. Additionally you would be compensated at least the spent time the public service took in leisure compensation. (because of the complexity of compensation between Public Service / private company, almost only public workers are used.
Hi from the UK.. I get 26 leave days + 8 public holidays. We are also entitled at my company 2 moving house days (every 5 years) + paid dependency days (for sick parents/children etc). When I lost my mum I was also given 2 weeks compassionate leave. Sometimes I feel like quitting the company - this has reminded me how lucky I am. 😊 Oh a sick days aren’t a thing. If your sick you are sick and you get sick pay
Just adding to this that, even though the minimum is 20 days + bank (public) holidays, the majority of office jobs in the UK offer 22-25 in addition to the bank holidays. Some go up to 30 or more. I'm at 25 ATM. Sick days aren't guaranteed by law beyond statutory where you are paid a small amount by the government, but many companies offer sickness absence with full pay. Usually it's up to 2 weeks (10 days).
@@stevemichael8458 Government website: Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday. Bank holidays Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.
Florida bestie here! The toxic job I left last month offered 6 paid holidays, and 5 PTO days in the first year (scaling up to about 15 days after 7 years with the company, which was VERY small, to my knowledge there’s 1 person other than the CEO who’s even been there that long). Just interviewed with another company in the same field that doesn’t allow you to use OR accrue PTO until after the first year, unsure of holidays. And this is in mental health, of all industries you would think they would understand the importance of providing time off for mental well-being and a balanced lifestyle💀
US employee here and I found it pretty interesting how some of the other countries gave MORE time to their public sector employees. I have worked for private corporations and my last one gave really good time off. I had 25 days of PTO + 5 personal holidays, 8 public holidays and unlimited sick time. Now I work for government and I get 15 PTO days and 15 sick days, but of course, calling in sick is frowned upon. I still get about 8 paid holidays as well. Government is decent about giving the holiday itself off but not the "extras" like New Years Eve and Black Friday. If anyone reading this is wondering why I left my private sector job for government work: stability! I feared losing my job every Friday, layoffs were a constant threat to the point I was sick and having panic attacks regularly. There's non-monetary value in having constant, stable and relatively low-stress work.
Australia - 20 days holiday, 7 days national, and 20 days full pay "personal" leave (can be used for caring for someone or sick,) and if needed 10 days for domestic abuse every year. Total 57 days plus another 5 if you factor in the long service leave. You accumulate all leave every year, unlimited if not taken, after 10 years you get long service leave, another 50 days. Most companies are relaxed on sick leave, just need a doctors note which are free and all doctors will give them. Also have additional maternity and paternity and bereavement leave.
The way my Long Service worked is.... Leave a company before you've worked there for 7 years - get no Long Service Leave. Leave between 7-10 years - get paid out at 1.3 weeks per year you worked. After 10 years at the same company - you've accumulated 13 weeks (including weekends) worth of holidays, with another 1.3 weeks added after every year. You could take it at anytime, in week lots, minimum of 2 weeks. You could choose to be paid out for all or some (in week lots) which could really help for a down payment on a house. Or you can add it to your 4-5 week Annual Leave and have a really long holiday.
🇱🇰 Sri Lankan bestie here! 🙋🏽♀️ But we are hardly allowed to take full week vacations several times a year. We make "Long weekends" longer. However in certain industries you get around a 10-day vacation during Sri Lankan New Year. Currently in 🇩🇪 Germany and you take 2 weeks vacation and no one bats an eye. Love it!
Ooo when I saw this title I clicked immediately 👀 in the U.S. at my job I have 10 days of pto, all federal holidays off, and 8 sick days. But it really varies. Some of my friends have 3 weeks off and some have “unlimited”. One of my friends jobs has sick days and vacation days pooled together so if she gets sick she can take less vacation in the year 😢 I’d love to see one of these videos comparing maternity/paternal leave policies around the world!
@Tech_Enthusiast_001 Most places in the US, you have to get a doctors note excusing your absence for more than a day or two; if the employers accept it and if you have sick time it'll be paid if not unpaid. Most places will still have you come in sick, even if you shouldn't out of public health; restaurants, daycares, nursing homes etc
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 you don't get vacation 🤷🏻♀️ I have a chronic illness and my employer dispenses PTO by pay period, which immediately goes towards my doctors appointments, so I never accumulate enough to take an actual vacation. I'm treating myself to a three day weekend this year and that's about it.
@@CPD7631 That sounds terrible. The US is really like the worst for human rights and such stuff.... all for the big corps, screw the middle class I guess. By law companies have to pay 30 sick days IN A ROW (more over the year) and after that you get paid by the social system... you never get unpaid because you are sick,.... that just sounds, uhm. Sick lol.
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 yeah I know it’s a messed up system :( I think if you got sick for a longer time you’d go on short term or long term disability and still be employed by your company but at a reduced salary (or maybe no salary but you’re guaranteed your job back when you’re recovered? 🤔) but I’m not fully sure since I can’t recall the policies off the top of my head!
Germany here: there is also a additional 5 day paid holiday if you have a disabled grade 50%+. Some parts of Germany have up to 13 public holidays (mainly in the south). BUT no employer I ever heard of offers less than 26days holiday. Plus ofc extra days off for moving, own wedding, loss of relatives etc. All of this sums up pretty quickly to some nice 6-7 weeks off a year.
Same, even though the minimum is 20, I've never heard of a company that offers less than 25 days, except very small ones of less than 10 employees for instance. I have 30 days + 13 public holidays (in Bavaria) and took extra 3 days for my wedding, 2 for moving last year. Overtime is converted to vacation days as well.
I'm from Germany too. I have NEVER seen an employer who offers less than 30 days. I have seen a company offering 32 days and one 35. Also, you have extra PTO days offered for moving houses, your wedding, your spouse giving birth, death of a family member in all companies I've ever seen. And you also have Kinderkrankengeld which allows you a certain amount of days as paid sick leave when your child is sick.
in Poland we have 20 days if you've worked for less than 10 years and 26 if you've worked for more 10, BUT your highschool/uni years are included in that 10 (depending on what level you finished at of course). 4 days from that pool can be used as what we call "leave on demand" and this is for emergencies, you don't have to get permission for them at all, you just have to inform the employer that you will be off. also, we are required by the law to use all of the vacation days (until 30.09 of the next year) and at least 10 of these days have to be taken consecutively (so that you get minimum 2 full weeks off).
You forget about 2 days (or 16 hours) if you have child under 14, additional days (1 or 2) for special situation (marriage, newborn, death in the nearest familie) 😀
And one correction - we don't have to take 2 weeks off in a row - most companies state it's true and regulated by the law, but it is not ;) also, when you can receive a holiday bonus - it's not true they will pay it only when you take 2weeks off ;)
@@Anna-it9fk no, that is not correct, it is mandatory ("co najmniej jedna część urlopu powinna trwać nie mniej niż 14 kolejnych dni kalendarzowych" www.biznes.gov.pl/pl/portal/00134)
Frenchy here 😆. So here's a bit more information regarding the basics of PTO's in France (excluding branch/union/company agreements): - For a full-time (35h/week) permanent contract, you aggregate "regular" paid days off at a rate of 2.5 each month (or 2/mo if you are on a nonwork related medical leave, full rate if work related medical leave). The aggregation period starts from June 1st until May 31st. This will give you a total of 30 paid days off for 12 months, translating to 5 weeks in total (you may notice the calculation is technically wrong, but it's a quirk between "mon-fri" week and "mon-sat" week). However, it may not be as much of the 1st year depending when you start your new job i.e.: If you join on May 1st 2025, you'll only have 2 paid days off from June 1st 2025 until May 31st 2026, meaning you'll only have your full 30 days from June 1st 2026 up to May 31st 2027. - Regular PTO's have to be used in at least 2 periods, the first of which cannot exceed 4 weeks. - We indeed have 11 paid holidays. Actually, unless you benefit from a specific agreement, (branch, union) you only have 10 days as one is used for what is called Solidarity Day (unpaid) which is used to finance initiatives towards autonomy for the elderly and disabled people. - We do a lot of PTO optimization. For 2025, using only regular PTO's and paid holidays, you can get up to 57 days of PTO. I can be full weeks or longer weekends. However, it will prevent you from taking a 3-week-long vacation, as most days will be scattered throughout the year. But some of us also have JRTT's to help with the optimization😋. - If you work more than 35h/w (up to 39) you can be entitled, depending on your job (mostly white collar) and branch/union agreements, to JRTT's (Journées de Récupération du Temps de Travail) or recuperation days aggregated from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. Depending on your branch/union collective agreement and the number of hours worked a week over 35hrs, you can usually get between 9 and 15 JRTT's. In my previous job, I used to work 37,5 hrs/w and got 15 JRTT/yr (which added to my regular PTO's gave me a total of 8 paid weeks off before optimization 😜). - You also receive more PTO's in case of family related events (excluding maternity/paternity leave): -- Birth of a child = + 3 days (unclear for twins if it's per child or per labor) -- Adoption of a child = + 3 days (also unclear for twins if it's per child or per adoption) -- Your wedding or legal partnership = + 4 days (for as many ceremonies, although no days given for divorces lol) -- Wedding of your child = + 1 day -- Death of a child = + 12 days (can be up to 14 days depending on conditions) -- Mourning days = + 8 days. In the case of the death of a child and depending on conditions, an extra 8-day mourning period can be requested and has to be taken within 1 year of the death. -- Death of other family member = + 3 days. This includes your significant other, direct siblings, parents or stepparents if actually married (legal partnerships are excluded) -- Sick child = Between 3 and 5 days per year (depending on situation) -- Grave medical issue = + 5 days. If your child has been diagnosed with a handicap or a grave medical issue (usually life-threatening). We also have a sort of PTO savings account where we can put aside some days for specific things like trainings, or we can also give some to colleagues, for example in case of the death of a child. Those are mostly the basics but can be complemented with branch/union/company agreements. In my previous company, I had an extra day off for my birthday that I had to take within 30 days. I'm gonna miss this one in my new job. Yes, we are pretty lucky, but we fought for those (yes STRIKES lol). 🤣🤣 Having at least 3 weeks of paid time off has been the norm for almost 100 years now.
In Romania you get 21 days off when you first start working with a maximum of 15 national days, depending if they land in a weekend or not. You get 10 days off if you're getting married, 3 days if your child gets married and if you have a death in the family, between 3 to one days off. Sick days are granted by the doctors, not by the company and they have to pay 75% of your salary in that time. After 3 months of medical leave the salary is affected but I forgot how. And, by the way, if a man becomes a father be get 4 weeks off after the birth. I hope I did not forgot smth.
Dutchie here! As someone also stated here, the minimum what people usually get is 25 days. Excluding public holidays, that would be around a minimum of 5, if we count that some will fall during the weekend (first christmas day, second christmas day, easter, pentacoast, kingsday, new years day). This will be around 30 PTO days in total. I currently have 40 days without public holidays, so around 45 in total :-). My husband has a total of around 38. Also an important note we have unlimited sick days. Even when your on your holidays and you get sick, you can call into work. They will refund your pto and will report you to sick leave! :D
The statutory minimum is however 20 days. Most companies offer more due to company regulation or Collective Labour agreement. Employers are not obliged to pay public holidays. Most people get paid 5 public holidays (as the other public holidays are in the weekend). Paid short time care leave if needed 2× the amount of your workinghours per week (paid 70%). Paid adoption and paid foster care leave: 6 weeks around the time of arrival of the child. Calamity leave (urgent unplanned situation f.e. broken water pipe at home) few hours up to a few days. Legislation on special leave (death of a family member, marriage etc.) is in the making. I have to correct some of my fellow Dutchmen who claim NL has no limitation on sick days: after 2 years employer does no longer have the obligation to pay out employee and during these first 2 years of sick leave employer is obliged to pay out at least 70% of the employee's wage
From Canada here. New employees get a minimum of 2 weeks after the first year, plus statutory holidays. The number of vacation days goes up the longer you stay with a company with many senior employees getting around 6 weeks.
It also depends on when you start a new job if you get paid for the 1st holiday after starting work. Must work a min of 30 days before the holiday to get paid for it. After that you get paid for holidays or if you have to work on the holiday you get another paid day off in leu of.
Norwegian here. If you work full time and are under 60 years you get 5 weeks of vacation. Over 60 years you got 6 weeks of vacation. Holidays are paid days off if it falls on your normal working day. And you get vacation money between 10 and 12 percent. And you can self declare 3 days, 4 rimes a year for sickness. Anything more, you need a doctors note.
I’m in the US, I get 30 days of PTO because I’ve been with the same company for 25 years. When I first started, it was 10. Sick days are included in that time, so if you get sick, you’re screwed. We’re pretty strongly discouraged from using our time off, or at least working while on vacation, and no one covers for you if you take time off. It’s not good, but nowhere in the US is.
I hear you. International Paper in Tennessee was stingy. I'd taken off too much sick time.....taking care of my dad in hospital with Parkinson's..... I asked for family leave which I used three weeks of. I came back to work for 6 weeks .....Then I got sick..... he went back into hospital..... was told I couldn't miss even though I had four more weeks of PTO. I quit.
In 14 of the 16 German states there is a law that gives employees 5 additional paid days off a year (or 10 every 2 years) for the so called „Bildungsurlaub“ („educational holidays“). There are lots of rules to this but basically you get 1 week to use for education - learn a language, about history/politics/economics or even how to do yoga. For me it is: 30 days regular PTO + 2 days (per my contract) + PTO on Dec 24th and 31st + 12 holidays + 5 days Bildungsurlaub. That‘s 51 in total of paid days off.
Geez... 30 days after 25 years... For comparison, first of all sick days don't exist in my country, if you're sick you're sick. Legal vacation days are 20, but nobody gets so few. I'm at 38 now, not including national holidays, after working exactly 0 years for the company. Indeed, this is the starter package.
Hello & good morning to all of you. Thank you Loe for picking this specific topic and share the information with your besties. I would not have thought Panama or Sri Lanka had so many PTO. When you presented 20 days minimum for Germany I was a little shocked and run a quick check but you are right this applies for 5-day-business-week.
my lazy Austrian a** sitting in home office and being surprised that we are at the top of this list (and btw we also have the extraordinary leave for passing away of relatives/moving/giving birth)
United States: I am 72. I have seen the number of PTO days decrease over my lifetime. When I was a child, the father (most moms didn't work) got at least 2 weeks. The factories in the town I lived in closed for 2 weeks in the summer and every employee got that as PTO plus an additional week at a time of their choosing after one year of employment. The longer you worked there the longer the additional time. I did have one job as an adult that gave me 4 weeks. Most jobs were less or none. I taught school for part of my career and your pay was determined on the basis of a full year even though you did not work in summer. There was no PTO. You did get 3-5 sick days. You could donate 1 day a year ro a fund and people who donated could draw from the fund for emergencies.
In the USA, for my first 22 years, I started with 30 days PTO and 11 holidays in the military. I was also able to request 3 and 4-day "long" weekends that did not count against my PTO. Plus, accumulated PTO up to 90 days rolled over any given year. This allowed me to take 90 days vacation at the end of my career and start my new career while still employed in the military. Since I started my new job 2 weeks after starting my terminal vacation, this ended up providing me with full income from 2 jobs for 2.5 months. This made the transition to civilian life much easier. In my next 26-year career my PTO ranged from 24 to 26 days PTO, 11 holidays, & 12 sick days. We also get 3 community involvement days off and 1 personal day of observance, our own personal holiday. Neither job was the most in the world, but suitable for my needs.
Many Military members are in Commands where 30 days leave does not equal 30 days off from work. You want Friday & Monday off and you are normally off on weekends, the weekend is charged as well for a total of 4 days used, even though you were already off work on the weekend.
Old (35 YOE), US-based. For most of my career in private industry, it was 10 days after the first year with a company (increasing by 1 week every 5 years, topping out at 4-6 weeks/year). Yes, it was common to have no PTO until you'd been there a year. This turned into a common pre-employment negotiation point & companies would generally allow you to start with 3 weeks/year without much complaining. The past couple of years have seen a fairly widespread adoption of total-experience based PTO schedules (2 weeks/year for entry level, up to 6 weeks/year for 20+ YOE). Paid holidays hover in the 10-12 days/year, depending on geography.
Greetings from Russia! We have up to 20 public holidays (depend on the year) plus 28 calendar days of paid vacations. If you’re a teacher, you’ll have 56 vacation days.
Not to mention that maternity leave officially is up to 3 years and in the private sector companies, especially IT compete for employees with benefits, where you get paid during a part of your maternal leave and companies pay you for each child birth.
There is one caveat. You aren't entitled to vacation until 6 months of working for that particular company. although, at most companies are worked with, you can arrange something despite that rule. Also in most places your days off arent' "burned" at the end of a year, so you could in theory just let them stack. It is generally frowned upon to take more than 2 weeks off in a row, depending on your boss, but honestly who would want that anyway. also out sick days aren't limited, you just call and say you are sick, people generally believe you on your word, although they are entitled to ask for a doctors note (which you can get for free, we do have free healthcare)
28 days including weekends (Saturday and Sunday). Technically one could take a vacation avoiding the weekends but the companies hate it. So in reality it’s 20 days
In India, there is a pre-published calendar with a list of public/religious holidays. As per the law, all companies are required to give at least 10 paid holidays based on this calendar. My company provides 15 vacation days, 8 casual days and 10 sick days per year, which will be carried forward to next financial year if unused (except the sick days). As i've been working with my employer for over 4 years now, my accumulated vacations + casual days are now at 54, which I can use however I want. If you stay with your company for long time, you will be rewarded with longer vacations
I'm from the Netherlands. Legal minimum is 20 days, but most get 25 at least (apart from public holidays). I get 32 days. Surprised to not see us on the list!
You forgot the public holidays, which are 6 (Christmas 2 days, new year, 2nd Easter, 2nd Pentecost and Kingsday). Loe made a selection of countries she was interested in, Netherlands apparently wasn't on her radar. And compared with some EU countries, we do pretty poorly.
Australia - 20 days annual leave (vesting), 15-20 days (non-vesting) personal leave (sick, carer’s, etc), 10-14 paid public holidays. Australia also has long service leave (vesting) - 90 day full pay leave after 10 years service (with same employer) prorata after 10 years. Maternity leave is also legislated. Plus other leave depending on employer.
Romanians are often proud of their free days too, surprised it didn't make the list. I think you have a minimum of 20 paid days off work, companies advertise themselves by saying they offer 21+. You then have the 10-12 paid public holidays - some jobs might require you to work during those days, but they are required by law to compensate with +100% of that day's work or to give you the day off any other day in the following month. After all that, you get 3-5 paid days off whenever: you're getting married, your kids get married or if any member of the close family passes away (spouse, offspring).
I am really glad to be living in the EU. It is great, that we have similar rules when it comes to paid leave, so that we can visit each other countries. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
USA here, in my 14 years in the corporate world, I've had up to 25 days at my last company before leaving. Getting to this current organization, I started with 15 days but the company adopted an unlimited PTO policy, so obviously the days don't really matter anymore. However, your point about culture and the extreme overload of work means people rarely take their days off, thus saving the company their costs. Generally, in my past life, most of the company (HQ at least) would take almost all of December off because we never took time during the year and had to take it or lose it (they didn't pay out). That was the best time to actually work because you could really get stuff done :)
😂 I have been at my job for 16 years and maxed out on allowances for time off. In one business year I’m paid 4 paid sick days & 5 weeks paid vacation - no $ pay out if I don’t use them so YES I do use them all! 😊 USA - NJ - retail job. Paid off Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bereavement- 5 days off with pay for immediate family member
In California here! From what I have seen/read, if the company has less than 25 employees, they're not legally mandated to give ANY pto, and only the 4 major holidays. If they're 25+ employees, then they must provide like 3 or 5 days per year. Holidays are totally up to the company
Hello there.. I work for a US company that's based in Malaysia. PTO is based on years of service, which is anywhere between 14-24 days. On top of that, we get an average of 16-20 public holidays a year. In order to set itself apart from the other companies, our company also offers extra leave like Carer's leave (5 days if we need to take some time to take care of sick kids/parents/pets); Marriage leave (3 days coz some of us have to travel for the event) and Study/ Exam leave (5 days) which are not mandated by law. These extras make us employees feel appreciated as it's like the company realises that life happens... Also, if we have to work weekends because of tight deadlines, then we get a replacement leave, which we can take anytime before the end of that year.. I know so many of my colleagues who haven't been able to finish their PTO because if this.
Australia here, healthcare worker. Every 12 months I get 20 days personal leave, 25 days annual leave, 1 accrued day off every four weeks, and for those of us that have worked 7+ years, an additional 8 days off for long service leave (it's a British colony thing). Not to mention about 10 or so public holidays.
In Brazil, we get 30 vacation days by law after every full year. We also have about 10 national holidays but also several other local holidays, depending on the city or state. Also, since we our salary is monthly and not every month has the same amount of days, we have a "13th month" at the end of the year to compensate for the extra work where we receive a full month of our salary. So, basically, between november/december, employees receive double their monthly income.
in the UK legally the government has to give you 20 days not including bank holidays but most companies start around the 22-25 mark and increase with service years.
India here- 26 Earned Leaves, 10 public holidays and 6 days of sick leaves. I work in IT. We also get 180 days of paid maternity leave and 2 weeks of paternity leave. Bereavement leaves for deaths in immediate family 5 days. Adoption leaves are also given.
Correct me if I’m wrong. When you have unlimited PTO, you don’t get paid out the unused days if you quit or get fired? Example: if you have 3 weeks of PTO and you get laid off without using those days, you get a severance plus the payout for the unused PTO.
First time commenter here. I working at a global company with an enormous presence in the US. My company has both union and non-union workers. I have 13 years of service and get 20 days PTO, 10 paid holidays, 5 sick days and 3 floating holidays,,,,so 38 total days for me.
Poland here :) 20 days if you work less than 10 years in total (but university degrees count as 8 years) so in reality you work for 2 years after graduation and you have 26 days of PTO. People with disabilities get additional 10 days a year. In addition to that 10 days of public holidays (and if holiday is on Saturday you get this day back in lieu), 2 additional days for childcare (aside from that you can take sick leave 80% paid up to 60 days a year for sick kid) also you can take up to 14 days of sick leave to care for family members and it’s 80% paid. For employees themselves it’s up to 182 days of sick leave a year and it’s also 80% paid, except for pregnancy sick leaves which are 100% paid. And it’s mandatory here to take 10 consecutive working days off in a year to get proper rest, companies are very strict about that because fines for denying employees to take a break are hefty. And unused vacation days can be used next year. And people on maternity leave (about a year) are eligible for the vacation days so when you come back you have it double :) We also have additional days off for some situations like birth of a child, death of a relative, wedding. Fathers get 14 days of paid leave after their child is born and 9 weeks of parental leave.
Australia also has 2 days paid bereavement leave each occassion, 10 days paid sick leave, 10 days domestic violence leave, 10 days paternity leave, 18 weeks maternity leave, and long service leave after 7-10 years that keeps accruing indefinately.
Aussie here. Each year I get 4 weeks annual leave (with the option to purchase 2 more weeks each year) and 3 weeks personal leave (sick or carers leave). The annual and personal leave continues to accumulate each year. There 10 public holidays annually, and after 10 years service I get a lump sum of 13 weeks long service leave that can also be taken at half pay for double the time. It continues to accumulate each year so after another 10 years you get another 13 weeks. Or it can be used pro-rata. I also only work a 9 day fortnight, so get two 3-day weekends a month.
Im in the US. I have worked retail most of my life. Most places give zero paid vacation, personal, or sick days for non-management employees; unless required to by state law. I only started getting sick time in the last three years because of state law.
I don't know where you got your info about the UK from but it's wrong. From the official government site. 'Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.'
I began my career in Minnesota there, it was always 10 days off no matter how many hours you worked; these 10 hours included sick days so you were screwed if you got sick. However, CTO did not include hospitality industry workers. Not only that in Minnesota for women, there was a glass ceiling, a very very heavy unbreakable glass ceiling. In 2003 my family left Minnesota for Michigan; in Michigan I have always had 15 days CTO which could but may not include sick days. I guess it makes sense, Michigan is the state of where the unions are.
US here. It highly depends on the industry you are in, and each company will handle it differently. Some companies separate vacation and sick time, others lump it all together under PTO. If you are in a professional industry, you are more likely to be offered substantial PTO. I'm a CPA. At my firm, every level starts with 4 weeks, plus we have 13 or so paid holidays in top of that. I'm currently at 5.5 weeks. My firm will also only require you to use PTO if you are going to be working less than 4 hours that day, so you don't end up needing to use it for doctors appointments and things like that. Plus they are also randomly give us extra paid holiday time, like we usually get July 4th and 5th off but this year we also got July 3rd just because they felt like it. They are also very generous with maternity and paternity leave, adoption leave, etc. This is all fairly common in public accounting. Other industries they routinely get nothing at all, even sick time, unless your state requires a minimum.
Noone in Germany has only tze minimum PTO, since companies want to keep union membership low they offer union condition contracts to non-union workers, so the tariffs apply, meaning 30 days/six weeks PTO. Plus public holidays, plus "unlimited" sick days (requiring a doctor's notice ofc), plus occasional days for moving/mourning/marrying.
In Australia for every 12 months you work (provided you’re a full-time employee) you get 4 weeks paid time off. You can get more than this but many employers don’t like you taking more paid time off than this and they request you take leave if you have in excess of 4 weeks. Also if you’ve been with a company for 10 years you are entitled to long service leave which is 3 months paid time off.
Arizona here - my company is privately owned by a small business owner, new employees that are office/project manager/superintendent/project engineer/ceo/cfo/controller (hourly/salaried positions) get 10 days of PTO/9 paid holidays. If you've been with the company for 10 years your PTO is 15 days, and if you've been with the company since the startup and are apart of the executive team you get 20 days of PTO. There's only 3 people who have 20 days of PTO and that's the owner, the VP, & the Chairman 😆😭. Still we are very grateful to have jobs and still around, it's a small concrete/underground utility company that's been around since 2007. If they can survive not only an economy crash and covid we can conquer anything coming at us.
Poland: 20-26 days, 13 paid holidays, multiple extraordinary days off (wedding, wedding of a child, funeral in the family, child care, paternity leave, etc), up to 182 days of paid sick leave, 61 weeks of paid maternity leave but you can take additional parental leave and it sums up to 36 months of paid leave
In the United States a lot of times you do not work a year before you have vacation. And typically there are only 6 holidays sometimes a company will give you 1 floating holiday to suit anyone arguing about a religious holiday. Starting out in corporate jobs will usually offer one week paid vacation a year until working there 5 years. I now want to move🤔🧐
I am a nurse in the US. I have spent almost 12 years working in either Texas or California during my career. On average, my employers have offered 14 days of PTO, and only some had a separate bank for sick days. Other general benefits include 6 weeks for new child/adoption of child, 2-3 days for death of immediate family member, and about 8-10 paid holidays (depending on the company).
Hi not sure where you got the stat's for Australia from but we get 20 days a year recreation leave (25 if you work shift work) plus 10 days paid sick leave. Once you have worked for the one company for 10 years you also get 12 weeks 'Long Service Leave'. Then depending on your working agreement it either starts the 10 year clock ticking again on the next ten years or you get 9 calendar days LSL added each year. We also get 13 public holidays a year including one for a horse race LOL there is a reason that whenever you go on holidays you are bound to meet an Aussie or two.
I'm in the US and have been with my company for over 20 years. We have an earned PTO banking policy - you earn hours every pay period with a bank max of 240 hours. (Once your bank is full, you stop earning until you take time off.) When you've been with the company for 15 years, you hit the max earning at 6 weeks/year. This is on top of the 14 paid company/public holidays (including our birthday). They also pay us our regular salary if we have to take time off for jury duty. (We do have to turn over our jury duty check to the company.) Funeral pay is between 1 and 3 days (depending on the relationship to the deceased). All in all it's a decent company to work at.
I worked in Central Florida. My employer decided to combine vacation and sick leave together. I was able to take numerous vacations and take leave for sick when needed. At my retirement I cashed in my days and currently have a nice nest egg!
I'm in the US, and my firm is very generous with PTO. I've been my firm a long time, and I get 5 weeks vacation, 14 sick days, and about 10 paid holidays. It varies drastically from company to company.
13:34 As a worker in Costa Rica, here's what I'm entitled to for various types of leave: 1. My vacation leave: I get 2 weeks (14 calendar days) of paid vacation each year after I've worked 50 weeks continuously. 2. If I'm sick: I can take up to 3 days of paid sick leave for minor illnesses without needing a doctor's note. If I'm sick for longer, I'll need a medical certificate, and my leave will be covered by social security. 3. If I'm expecting a baby (maternity leave): I'm entitled to 4 months of leave - 1 month before my due date and 3 months after. During this time, I'll receive 100% of my salary, which is split between my employer and social security. 4. If I'm a new father (paternity leave): I can take 2 days of paid leave. This benefit was just introduced in 2022. These are my basic leave entitlements as a worker in Costa Rica. (Public and private sectors) Then the teachers: - Without maternity/paternity leave: About 8-10 weeks vacation + 3 days sick leave - With maternity leave (for female teachers): Add 17 weeks - With paternity leave (for male teachers): Add 2 days I get 11 official paid holidays per year. These are: - January 1: New Year's Day - April 11: Juan Santamaría Day - Thursday and Friday of Holy Week (dates vary each year) - May 1: Labor Day - July 25: Annexation of Guanacaste Day - August 2: Our Lady of Los Ángeles Day - August 15: Mother's Day - September 15: Independence Day - December 25: Christmas Day PS. The paid sick leave is “renewed” every 30 natural days (although this is not official)
Working in the public service in Australia I'd get the normal 4 weeks off a year and because I worked weekends a lot, for every 10 sundays I worked I'd get an extra week paid leave. I was also in the Army Reserve for a number of years and got another 2 weeks paid leave (base pay) to go to training camps. For a long time I would save my rec leave and make the Army Camp my annual holiday and save up my rec leave for big trips overseas, but eventually my work said I couldn't save up more than 2 years worth of holidays. Bummer!
In Spain you also have days like in Luxembourg, for moving, marrying, maternal and paternal leave, sick days, close relatives in the hospital, grieve time, etc...
There are a lot of companies who don’t pay for any time off depending on what you do. I used to groom dogs and we didn’t get anything paid. Not even health insurance. The shop closed on major holidays so they didn’t pay. Since you work per animal you groom, you don’t get paid if you aren’t there. Now I work for the county and I have worked up to earning 20 hours pto every month. We don’t have separate sick and vacation hours they are just under the same thing.
USA TN here. If you work in food service, or retail (ie. Walmart) and you’re part time, you’re lucky if you even get sick days much less pto. If you work in banking or government, you get most national holidays paid. If you’re in office settings and full time (36+ hours per week) then you usually get 2 weeks of pto and sometimes that will include sick days.
US worker here. I have a great employer and after 12 years I'm up to 24.5 days/year. It goes up every few years, maxing out at 30 days/year around 20 years of service. We also get the 11 federal holidays off. We can cash out up to 5 days, and roll 5 days to the next year. It's use or lose for the rest of the time, so our manager starts to bug us to schedule our PTO around mid-year so that we don't lose any days. We also have a separate pool of sick days up to 8, but they start to scrutinize things if you use all of your sick days. They don't want people use sick days instead of PTO when they're not sick.
Hungary: As far as I know, when we start working, the base PTO days are 20. It's increasing with age, number of children, and other stuff, and it has a maximum of 40 days. Plus the holidays (approx 10-12 each year), plus paternity leave (10days) - maternity leave 2+1 YEARS, plus sick days (when your child is sick, it counts too, 50%salary, usually), you can get some extra days with child under 3 (total 44 days alltogether but 10% salary), you can get extra days off for death in family too. It's quite complicated, but we have sooo many extra days off.
I am from Colorado and work for a company that provides 13 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, gives half day Fridays during the summer, and since I have been there over 10 year now, I earn 2+days of vacation accrued per month. We earn separate sick time from vacation time. Also, after we work 7 years we get a month long sabbatical in addition to our normal vacation time. This can be taken every seven years. I realize that my company is highly unusual for paid time off here in America. It is one of the things that keeps me going with this company as the pay is more on the lower end of the spectrum compared to other companies for a similar role (I work for a non-profit).
Poland here 👋🏻 We have 26 days of PTO plus about 11 bank holidays plus extraordinary days off (2 days - own wedding, birth of a child, death and funeral of a child, spouse, parent, stepmother or stepfather; 1 day - wedding of the child, death and funeral of the grandparent, brother, sister, in-laws or death and funeral of another person dependent on the employee or under the employee’s direct care). Also we have ‘unlimited’ sick leave (mentioning as I’ve heard some countries use their PTO for sickness) and during prenganancy this sick leave is 100% paid. Having that said many people don’t use their PTO fully during calneldar year and we have the remaining days transferred for a next calendar year so one could collect a pretty nice amount of PTO. ✌🏻
I’m in the UK & my work has 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Then we can also buy/sell up to 5 days per year. We also have additional leave types too such as jury duty, bereavement, moving leave. Also 6 months maternity & it was 2 weeks paternity but I believe this has recently been increased too. I love our annual leave benefits!
Macedonia: 20-26 paid vacation days, 11 paid public holydays + more paid holidays, depending on ethnicity, religion etc. There are some extra paid days off for some occasions like: weddings, loss, moving house but that depends on company. 9 months maternity leave for 1 child and 15 months for twins. 2 months unpaid leave for care of a child under the age of 3.
California bestie here. Most of the jobs I have had have offered 14 days PTO after the first year, 3-5 sick days (separate from PTO) and 7-8 paid holidays a year. The company I'm with now has been generous with 15 days PTO to start, 5 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. I also get to wfh and never have to worry about going into an office, he never plans to open a brick and mortar site.
I'm in Germany! The minimum is 20 days but most companies offer you more, I have 28 days currently plus the holidays and unlimited sick days. My company also offers time off for sick child, bereavement, or if you're moving house, the allotment varies. I've been w/ the company for 2 years so far, going on 3. In my last job in the US, I was given 10 days PTO (for both vacation AND sick days) per year. I worked at that company for 2 years before moving to Europe. The difference is night and day!
I am very fortunate. I get 25 days of PTO per year in the US working for an American company. There are an additional 12 days of holiday pay including the major holidays plus the ~week between Christmas and New Years.
Hello from Portugal. My company gives 25 work days of vacation leave with full pay. Most companies have 22 work days 30 day per year for family assistance if needed.. Paid in full If I'm sick, I've all the days the doctor says I need. Also paid 150 or 180 days of maternity paid leave for the mother. The father has also 60 days of paternity leave. I think is 60. Reduced hours until the baby is one year old. Also paid in full. Every religious holiday is a day to rest. 11 work days as a present if you get married
Austria here: per year it is a minimum 25 days PTO + max. 13 paid public holidays (depending if the weekday they fall on is a regular workday for you) + between 1-3 days for each of the following incidents: child birth (fathers), death of family member, moving, certain government citations (depending on your collective wage agreement and individual company’s employment contract). Additionally up to a week PTO for caring for a family member living in the same household. Furthermore you can use amassed overtime to take days off. My contract does not allow me to to amass overtime (as it is included in my salary) but I can take up to three more days of PTO / year. PTO and overtime hours can (up to a certain number) be transferred to the next year (and are added to the new minimum PTO days). Maternity leave = maternity protection leave (8 weeks before and after date of birth) + min. 2 months and max. 23 months (depending on a variety of things). Payment is, depending on the length of the maternity leave a certain percentage of your last wage/salary.
North Carolina here...where I work makes it complicated because even within the company it can depend if you are on PTO or Vacation/Sick Time. For me you start at 10 vacation days and 12 Sick Days, with an additional 8 paid holidays and 6 "D-Days" which are for the months without a paid holiday. So 18 days off + 12 Sick days to start, after 4 years you get 15 vacation days and after 9 years you go to 20 vacation days.
Norway A minimum of 25 days paid PTO Most have 30 days And for those that are 60+ years, you get another week of. Paid holidays: 5-10 (some paid days change each year depending on which weekday if falls on) Sickdays: 12 days per year, max 3 days in a row For longer: 100% paid sickleave with doctors note for up to 12 months Sick children: 1-2 children 10 days per parent/20 for single parents with 100% parental rights, additional 5 more days for each child there after/10 for single. Normal: pto/leave with pay to care for elders, doctors visit, dentistvisits, follow children to the doctor etc normal up to 10 days per year. All the above 100% paid. And not to forget 100% paid parental leave for 49 weeks :) And no, the taxes are not extreme ;) with free healthcare with the taxes. An avarage income is taxed 15-20% depending on their personal finances :)
American here: I didn't realize it at the time, but yeah, my first couple jobs in food service didn't have any paid days off. To preface this, I've only worked in the private sector, but I think the public sector does have some regulation on national holidays and such. I remember when I worked at a restaurant that gave 1 day of paid sick leave per X amount of hours and I was stoked and thought that was such a great benefit. However, I switched to programming jobs, and it seems like a lot of "professional" jobs have about 1 week of PTO to start, and it's dependent on the company what holidays are off and whether or not they're paid. However hourly jobs tend to not have paid days off. You can usually get days off as needed, but it's almost always unpaid, regardless of the reason
Austrian here: The 25/30 vacation days apply to full-time workers, part-time workers get fewer vacation days. Traditionally practically all shops are closed on public holidays and Sundays, giving sales personnel at least one full day off on the weekend. Employees who have to work on a holiday or Sunday (e.g. restaurant workers) get extra compensation (either pay or paid time off). Despite focusing on a high work-life balance Austria has a per capita GDP above the EU average (France's is slightly below). Also, all workers and employees get 4 to 6 weeks of sick leave paid by the employer and up to one year of sick leave paid by Social Security per year.
I'm pretty happy with my PTO over here in Belgium. We have 10 paid public holidays, 20 paid vacations days (which increase with seniority after 5 years with the same company) and what we call recoup time - standard working hours is 38 hours per week, but a lot of companies will work 39 hours, which gives you an extra 6 days per year. I currently work a 40-hour week so I'm entitled to 12 extra days, so total 42 paid days off a year. We also have entitlement to 4 months of parental leave per child on top of paternal or maternity leave to take before the child is 12, but can also be taken as a reduction in work time, so you can choose to do 80% and take 1 day a week off. The only issue I've seen is if you have taken a career break for whatever reason, you will need to earn your vacation time, so no paid days for the first year. New graduates are gifted 5 days which I've heard a fair few people complain about...
Hey, Aussie here. 20 days paid annual leave plus paid public holidays. Employers can increase that and some industries have 30days. Teachers are paid over the school holidays. My company has 20days holiday which you can accrue and they have to pay you out if you leave or are fired. We also have 20days personal leave which can be sick/carers type leave and you just need a doctors certificate after 2 days and this accrues too. We also have long service leave which accrues at 3 months extra leave for every 10years service
I have worked for my company in the US for 7 years! 0 paid vacation days 0 paid sick days 0 health insurance 0 paid bereavement 60 hour work weeks Due to the type of work that I do I only qualify for overtime after working 246 hours in a two week period!
South Carolina in US = 1 week vacation =1st -3year / 3-5=2 weeks / over 5=3weeks paid vacation (PTO has changed - my hubby has 40, but he's been there 7 years). Then there's bereavement, maternity, adoption, etc.
Switzerland here: The minimum is 4 weeks annual leave, though most companies have 5 for their employees. Have never actually worked at one that had only 4 weeks. Paid holidays are different from place to place, but on average I would say it's around 10-12 additionally and we also have paid leaves for occasions like moves, deaths and all that stuff, which is usually between 1-5 days, depending on the occasion of course. Higher ages usually also get a bit more annual leave, they usually go up from 25 days to 30 days. Also at some companies you can actually buy more vacation time, like 1-2 weeks more, though that will of course alter your income a little bit.
Wow. I'll count my blessings. I'm in the US and I get 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 holidays, and 15 days sick time. None of it is just suddenly available, however. Each accrue so many hours per month, except jury duty and bereavement which is up to 5 days per year. So, you can't take 3 weeks vacation again until you've accrued the hours again, in about 12 months time. However, most of us take 1 week vacation and 2 separate weeks stay-cation. We find it helps our morale and gives us mental health days where we can just turn off from work mode and focus on ourselves or our families. Also, we can use our sick time to cover doctor appointment days for ourselves or our family if we find ourselves not needing them for actually being sick. (I'm rarely sick and so is my family but with 4 kids, regular doctor/dentist visits are a must.)
🎉 nice to see, that my homecontry is top of the list in something good finally! And yes, 25 days (aka 5 Werks) are great, still envy the older employes with 6 weeks pto😂
As others have said, in Australia 20 days (business days, so 4 weeks) annual leave, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, compassionate leave if needed. Then you also earn Long Service Leave, which varies industry to industry, but the average seems to be 10 weeks after 10 years work, accruing at two weeks per year after that. Now some 'Muricans might complain that 'someone has to pay for that', which is true, or call it 'Communizm!1!!', which isn't true, but compare standard of living indicators between our nations, and see who is benefiting the most here.
Lithuania: 11 public holiday days, so paid days off + 20 working days (not including weekends) for a starting position. Amaount of days increase for amount of tears worked and for parents (2 kids = +1 day per month = 12 days per year on top of all mentioned).
I am from Poland and here it is: 20 days per calendar year for workers with a length of service of less than 10 years and 26 days per calendar year for workers with a length of service of at least 10 years. Your days at college also count into it. Also, you get 2 days per each child as child care leave, 2 days of days off on demand - all paid for. Sick leave paid 80%.
In Brazil, we have 30 vacation days and 9 national holidays. You have the option to sell all of your vacation days back to the company. If you choose to do so, you won't have any time off during the year. However, if you don't sell any of your vacation days, then taking 30 days off is mandatory. As a federation, there are also variations in laws between states, along with state-specific holidays unique to each federated state.
In Spain we also have some paid leaves when we marry (15), or move houses (1), or when we lose someone close (1-2). There's also a paid maternity or paternity leave if 16-20 weeks.
A New Zealander here- who moved to New York 17 years ago, I started with a Fortune 100 corporate company where I was only given 10 days, $9.40 per hour (with good benefits) 3 days sick, 3 bereavement. After 17 years I was getting 23 days vacation, 4 days sick, and 5 days bereavement. Meanwhile my family and friends in NZ spoke to the 4 weeks they get after working one year for a private company. I left the company due to 22 reasons and now looking for better benefits… going back to NZ sounds better with every USA comment I read.
Brazil: in total, employees in Brazil typically have around **38 to 40 days** of paid time off per year, including annual vacation and public holidays, depending on the number of local holidays in their region. By law, any employees are entitled to **30 days** of paid vacation each year after completing 12 months of work.
In INDIA (Private School), I get about 29 paid off day total a year (its scatted all-around year) + Summer vacation- 36 days, Diwali Vacation- 11 days, Winter vacation- 2-3 days + 2 sick leaves per month + 1 casual leave per month + 1 paid leave per month, so that give me as a teacher and my husband as a banker a total of 126 paid days off, that's kind of what we get some might say its a lot but many of these days we might have to work from homes too and Sunday is a working day from home that's all.
Where I work, here in the US, I get 10 sick days, 2 days PTO, and 10 days of vacation, after 1 year of work, with 5 days added every 5 years. We also get most holidays off and the whole plant shuts down for a week at Christmas.
US here: My company seems to be an exception. I’ve been there for just over 3 years. I get 20 vacation + 3 personal + 10 sick days + all Federal holidays. If holiday falls on a weekend we get a floating day to use any time after the holiday but prior to the end of first quarter next year. Vacation and personal are “use it or lose it.” Oh, and that’s from day 1. After 5 years it increases to 25 vacation and 15 sick.
Sitting on the couch and watching this during my third summer vacation week. We get 5 weeks (4 weeks for the summer and 1 for the winter) in total here in Finland. Some companies allow your to swap your holiday bonus pay to extra vacation days. So in total, you can get 7 weeks of PTO days + plus all the paid public holidays. If I'm not mistaken, there are 5-10 public holidays depending on which weekday the holidays land on every year.
5 weeks standard. 1 for personal development granted by my employer and i get a salary bump which i can use to buy a total of extra 5 weeks if i want or I can go for the cash.
Sick or dentist will not dip into your days.
Paid delivery leave (months). Paid parental leave (x days per month for a year).
Finland was the first country that came to my mind! I'm from Canada and can confirm we're on the low to mid end. 2 weeks plus ~10 holiday days is pretty standard here. Then once every ~5 years you might get 1 week more.
Side note: many, many people here consider Finland, Norway, Sweeden and Denmark to be the best countries in the world.
I was thinking that Austria takes ages to give you 30 days annual leave as we only need to have been working over a year to same employer to start getting the full 30 days. Then there is the "pekkanen" which is 12.5 days if you're working hourly job.
But isn't your salary lower than the rest of Europe?
@@l_7376 Nope. In average annual net earnings (2023) Finland was no. 10 out of about 35 in Europe, just a little behind Austria and Germany.
Germany: Almost nobody has only the vacation days stipulated in the law. The law only provides the basis for the collective agreement between employers and unions. Most people have six weeks, i.e. 30 days. You have the right (and very often the obligation) to take two weeks in a row at least once a year. In addition, there are public holidays depending on the federal state (10-13 days)
If you work in Augsburg city you get 16 public holidays! Guess where I work? 😮
also some companys and most jobs in the public sector have the 1-3 days for birth, death, even adoption (actual days depending on the degree of relationship and the age of the adopted child) and day(s) to move/relocate.
There is also a legal entitlement to get an part-time contract.
You get additional 5 days off (per law) if you have a disability of 50% or more.
This is all based on a 37,5 - 42 hour in 5 days work week.
There also are laws how long you can work continously until a break, and max amount of 10 hours per workday, and how long the "resting-time" between 2 shifts has to be.
In principle all germans can be oblidged to jury duty and election helper (both would be public services which your employer has to give you the free time for. Additionally you would be compensated at least the spent time the public service took in leisure compensation. (because of the complexity of compensation between Public Service / private company, almost only public workers are used.
@@rootgremlin2746 Yesterday was my day off for 25 years with TARGOBANK 😃
And we have to take the vacation, our bosses will be at our necks, if we don't take the vacation and reduce our overtime.
Working in Düsseldorf or Köln might give you an extra 2 Days for Rosenmontag and Altweiber. Thats what my Employer does. Love it. :-)
Hi from the UK.. I get 26 leave days + 8 public holidays. We are also entitled at my company 2 moving house days (every 5 years) + paid dependency days (for sick parents/children etc). When I lost my mum I was also given 2 weeks compassionate leave.
Sometimes I feel like quitting the company - this has reminded me how lucky I am. 😊
Oh a sick days aren’t a thing. If your sick you are sick and you get sick pay
Minimum statutory paid leave is 28 days, not 26.
@@Poliss95 Per the gov's website, An employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave.
Just adding to this that, even though the minimum is 20 days + bank (public) holidays, the majority of office jobs in the UK offer 22-25 in addition to the bank holidays. Some go up to 30 or more. I'm at 25 ATM.
Sick days aren't guaranteed by law beyond statutory where you are paid a small amount by the government, but many companies offer sickness absence with full pay. Usually it's up to 2 weeks (10 days).
@@Poliss95 28 days including public holidays
@@stevemichael8458 Government website:
Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday.
Bank holidays
Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave.
An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.
Florida bestie here! The toxic job I left last month offered 6 paid holidays, and 5 PTO days in the first year (scaling up to about 15 days after 7 years with the company, which was VERY small, to my knowledge there’s 1 person other than the CEO who’s even been there that long). Just interviewed with another company in the same field that doesn’t allow you to use OR accrue PTO until after the first year, unsure of holidays.
And this is in mental health, of all industries you would think they would understand the importance of providing time off for mental well-being and a balanced lifestyle💀
US employee here and I found it pretty interesting how some of the other countries gave MORE time to their public sector employees. I have worked for private corporations and my last one gave really good time off. I had 25 days of PTO + 5 personal holidays, 8 public holidays and unlimited sick time. Now I work for government and I get 15 PTO days and 15 sick days, but of course, calling in sick is frowned upon. I still get about 8 paid holidays as well. Government is decent about giving the holiday itself off but not the "extras" like New Years Eve and Black Friday. If anyone reading this is wondering why I left my private sector job for government work: stability! I feared losing my job every Friday, layoffs were a constant threat to the point I was sick and having panic attacks regularly. There's non-monetary value in having constant, stable and relatively low-stress work.
If you earned sick leave, who cares if it is frowned upon....no use accruing it when you retire.
Australia - 20 days holiday, 7 days national, and 20 days full pay "personal" leave (can be used for caring for someone or sick,) and if needed 10 days for domestic abuse every year. Total 57 days plus another 5 if you factor in the long service leave. You accumulate all leave every year, unlimited if not taken, after 10 years you get long service leave, another 50 days. Most companies are relaxed on sick leave, just need a doctors note which are free and all doctors will give them. Also have additional maternity and paternity and bereavement leave.
Plus leave loading on Annual leave, so you get paid more.☺️
Only if you get leave. So many people are now contractors with no paid leave.
and if you're in the Commonwealth you get 9 days long service per year once you qualify
The way my Long Service worked is.... Leave a company before you've worked there for 7 years - get no Long Service Leave. Leave between 7-10 years - get paid out at 1.3 weeks per year you worked. After 10 years at the same company - you've accumulated 13 weeks (including weekends) worth of holidays, with another 1.3 weeks added after every year. You could take it at anytime, in week lots, minimum of 2 weeks. You could choose to be paid out for all or some (in week lots) which could really help for a down payment on a house. Or you can add it to your 4-5 week Annual Leave and have a really long holiday.
Can you get pay out at the end of the year
🇱🇰 Sri Lankan bestie here! 🙋🏽♀️ But we are hardly allowed to take full week vacations several times a year. We make "Long weekends" longer. However in certain industries you get around a 10-day vacation during Sri Lankan New Year. Currently in 🇩🇪 Germany and you take 2 weeks vacation and no one bats an eye. Love it!
Ooo when I saw this title I clicked immediately 👀 in the U.S. at my job I have 10 days of pto, all federal holidays off, and 8 sick days. But it really varies. Some of my friends have 3 weeks off and some have “unlimited”. One of my friends jobs has sick days and vacation days pooled together so if she gets sick she can take less vacation in the year 😢 I’d love to see one of these videos comparing maternity/paternal leave policies around the world!
"sick days"? What happens if you are rude enough to catch something bad and get sick for more than 8 days?
@Tech_Enthusiast_001 Most places in the US, you have to get a doctors note excusing your absence for more than a day or two; if the employers accept it and if you have sick time it'll be paid if not unpaid. Most places will still have you come in sick, even if you shouldn't out of public health; restaurants, daycares, nursing homes etc
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 you don't get vacation 🤷🏻♀️ I have a chronic illness and my employer dispenses PTO by pay period, which immediately goes towards my doctors appointments, so I never accumulate enough to take an actual vacation. I'm treating myself to a three day weekend this year and that's about it.
@@CPD7631 That sounds terrible. The US is really like the worst for human rights and such stuff.... all for the big corps, screw the middle class I guess.
By law companies have to pay 30 sick days IN A ROW (more over the year) and after that you get paid by the social system... you never get unpaid because you are sick,.... that just sounds, uhm. Sick lol.
@@Tech_Enthusiast_001 yeah I know it’s a messed up system :( I think if you got sick for a longer time you’d go on short term or long term disability and still be employed by your company but at a reduced salary (or maybe no salary but you’re guaranteed your job back when you’re recovered? 🤔) but I’m not fully sure since I can’t recall the policies off the top of my head!
Germany here: there is also a additional 5 day paid holiday if you have a disabled grade 50%+. Some parts of Germany have up to 13 public holidays (mainly in the south). BUT no employer I ever heard of offers less than 26days holiday. Plus ofc extra days off for moving, own wedding, loss of relatives etc. All of this sums up pretty quickly to some nice 6-7 weeks off a year.
My husband has 34 days holiday and me as a teacher I have comfortable 14 weeks holiday per year.
Same, even though the minimum is 20, I've never heard of a company that offers less than 25 days, except very small ones of less than 10 employees for instance. I have 30 days + 13 public holidays (in Bavaria) and took extra 3 days for my wedding, 2 for moving last year. Overtime is converted to vacation days as well.
I'm from Germany too. I have NEVER seen an employer who offers less than 30 days. I have seen a company offering 32 days and one 35.
Also, you have extra PTO days offered for moving houses, your wedding, your spouse giving birth, death of a family member in all companies I've ever seen.
And you also have Kinderkrankengeld which allows you a certain amount of days as paid sick leave when your child is sick.
in Poland we have 20 days if you've worked for less than 10 years and 26 if you've worked for more 10, BUT your highschool/uni years are included in that 10 (depending on what level you finished at of course). 4 days from that pool can be used as what we call "leave on demand" and this is for emergencies, you don't have to get permission for them at all, you just have to inform the employer that you will be off. also, we are required by the law to use all of the vacation days (until 30.09 of the next year) and at least 10 of these days have to be taken consecutively (so that you get minimum 2 full weeks off).
You forget about 2 days (or 16 hours) if you have child under 14, additional days (1 or 2) for special situation (marriage, newborn, death in the nearest familie) 😀
And one correction - we don't have to take 2 weeks off in a row - most companies state it's true and regulated by the law, but it is not ;) also, when you can receive a holiday bonus - it's not true they will pay it only when you take 2weeks off ;)
@@Anita-gk7ic you are probably right, as a young childfree person I never looked into that 😅
@@Anna-it9fk no, that is not correct, it is mandatory ("co najmniej jedna część urlopu powinna trwać nie mniej niż 14 kolejnych dni kalendarzowych" www.biznes.gov.pl/pl/portal/00134)
@Anna-it9fk no, that is not correct, it is mandatory ("co najmniej jedna część urlopu powinna trwać nie mniej niż 14 kolejnych dni kalendarzowych")
Frenchy here 😆. So here's a bit more information regarding the basics of PTO's in France (excluding branch/union/company agreements):
- For a full-time (35h/week) permanent contract, you aggregate "regular" paid days off at a rate of 2.5 each month (or 2/mo if you are on a nonwork related medical leave, full rate if work related medical leave). The aggregation period starts from June 1st until May 31st. This will give you a total of 30 paid days off for 12 months, translating to 5 weeks in total (you may notice the calculation is technically wrong, but it's a quirk between "mon-fri" week and "mon-sat" week). However, it may not be as much of the 1st year depending when you start your new job i.e.: If you join on May 1st 2025, you'll only have 2 paid days off from June 1st 2025 until May 31st 2026, meaning you'll only have your full 30 days from June 1st 2026 up to May 31st 2027.
- Regular PTO's have to be used in at least 2 periods, the first of which cannot exceed 4 weeks.
- We indeed have 11 paid holidays. Actually, unless you benefit from a specific agreement, (branch, union) you only have 10 days as one is used for what is called Solidarity Day (unpaid) which is used to finance initiatives towards autonomy for the elderly and disabled people.
- We do a lot of PTO optimization. For 2025, using only regular PTO's and paid holidays, you can get up to 57 days of PTO. I can be full weeks or longer weekends. However, it will prevent you from taking a 3-week-long vacation, as most days will be scattered throughout the year. But some of us also have JRTT's to help with the optimization😋.
- If you work more than 35h/w (up to 39) you can be entitled, depending on your job (mostly white collar) and branch/union agreements, to JRTT's (Journées de Récupération du Temps de Travail) or recuperation days aggregated from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. Depending on your branch/union collective agreement and the number of hours worked a week over 35hrs, you can usually get between 9 and 15 JRTT's. In my previous job, I used to work 37,5 hrs/w and got 15 JRTT/yr (which added to my regular PTO's gave me a total of 8 paid weeks off before optimization 😜).
- You also receive more PTO's in case of family related events (excluding maternity/paternity leave):
-- Birth of a child = + 3 days (unclear for twins if it's per child or per labor)
-- Adoption of a child = + 3 days (also unclear for twins if it's per child or per adoption)
-- Your wedding or legal partnership = + 4 days (for as many ceremonies, although no days given for divorces lol)
-- Wedding of your child = + 1 day
-- Death of a child = + 12 days (can be up to 14 days depending on conditions)
-- Mourning days = + 8 days. In the case of the death of a child and depending on conditions, an extra 8-day mourning period can be requested and has to be taken within 1 year of the death.
-- Death of other family member = + 3 days. This includes your significant other, direct siblings, parents or stepparents if actually married (legal partnerships are excluded)
-- Sick child = Between 3 and 5 days per year (depending on situation)
-- Grave medical issue = + 5 days. If your child has been diagnosed with a handicap or a grave medical issue (usually life-threatening).
We also have a sort of PTO savings account where we can put aside some days for specific things like trainings, or we can also give some to colleagues, for example in case of the death of a child.
Those are mostly the basics but can be complemented with branch/union/company agreements. In my previous company, I had an extra day off for my birthday that I had to take within 30 days. I'm gonna miss this one in my new job.
Yes, we are pretty lucky, but we fought for those (yes STRIKES lol). 🤣🤣
Having at least 3 weeks of paid time off has been the norm for almost 100 years now.
Not always 11 paid holiday if some fall on a Sunday then you dont get an extra one.
In Romania you get 21 days off when you first start working with a maximum of 15 national days, depending if they land in a weekend or not. You get 10 days off if you're getting married, 3 days if your child gets married and if you have a death in the family, between 3 to one days off. Sick days are granted by the doctors, not by the company and they have to pay 75% of your salary in that time. After 3 months of medical leave the salary is affected but I forgot how. And, by the way, if a man becomes a father be get 4 weeks off after the birth.
I hope I did not forgot smth.
oh and the best part is that as a woman you get 126 days Maternity leave and then you get to stay in parental leave until the baby is 2yo.
Cu pofta!
Dutchie here! As someone also stated here, the minimum what people usually get is 25 days. Excluding public holidays, that would be around a minimum of 5, if we count that some will fall during the weekend (first christmas day, second christmas day, easter, pentacoast, kingsday, new years day). This will be around 30 PTO days in total. I currently have 40 days without public holidays, so around 45 in total :-). My husband has a total of around 38.
Also an important note we have unlimited sick days. Even when your on your holidays and you get sick, you can call into work. They will refund your pto and will report you to sick leave! :D
Dutch too. My worst job was 25 days, my best so far was 42 days. Currently at 38. Not counting national holidays of course.
another dutch i have 41 days not incl national days
The statutory minimum is however 20 days. Most companies offer more due to company regulation or Collective Labour agreement. Employers are not obliged to pay public holidays. Most people get paid 5 public holidays (as the other public holidays are in the weekend). Paid short time care leave if needed 2× the amount of your workinghours per week (paid 70%). Paid adoption and paid foster care leave: 6 weeks around the time of arrival of the child. Calamity leave (urgent unplanned situation f.e. broken water pipe at home) few hours up to a few days. Legislation on special leave (death of a family member, marriage etc.) is in the making. I have to correct some of my fellow Dutchmen who claim NL has no limitation on sick days: after 2 years employer does no longer have the obligation to pay out employee and during these first 2 years of sick leave employer is obliged to pay out at least 70% of the employee's wage
From Canada here. New employees get a minimum of 2 weeks after the first year, plus statutory holidays. The number of vacation days goes up the longer you stay with a company with many senior employees getting around 6 weeks.
Unless you are in Saskatchewan. Minimum is three weeks. This year I have 73 pdo.
It also depends on when you start a new job if you get paid for the 1st holiday after starting work. Must work a min of 30 days before the holiday to get paid for it. After that you get paid for holidays or if you have to work on the holiday you get another paid day off in leu of.
Canada here as well. I get 7 weeks and all stats as well as PTO between Christmas and New Year. I've been there for 16 years - we also have a union.
@@michellehill4148 That's really sweet! I wish I was unionized too.
Norwegian here. If you work full time and are under 60 years you get 5 weeks of vacation. Over 60 years you got 6 weeks of vacation. Holidays are paid days off if it falls on your normal working day. And you get vacation money between 10 and 12 percent. And you can self declare 3 days, 4 rimes a year for sickness. Anything more, you need a doctors note.
I’m in the US, I get 30 days of PTO because I’ve been with the same company for 25 years. When I first started, it was 10. Sick days are included in that time, so if you get sick, you’re screwed. We’re pretty strongly discouraged from using our time off, or at least working while on vacation, and no one covers for you if you take time off. It’s not good, but nowhere in the US is.
I hear you. International Paper in Tennessee was stingy. I'd taken off too much sick time.....taking care of my dad in hospital with Parkinson's..... I asked for family leave which I used three weeks of. I came back to work for 6 weeks .....Then I got sick..... he went back into hospital..... was told I couldn't miss even though I had four more weeks of PTO. I quit.
@@Cancionera40 We get sick leave, it's just included in what you get as your total PTO
In 14 of the 16 German states there is a law that gives employees 5 additional paid days off a year (or 10 every 2 years) for the so called „Bildungsurlaub“ („educational holidays“). There are lots of rules to this but basically you get 1 week to use for education - learn a language, about history/politics/economics or even how to do yoga.
For me it is: 30 days regular PTO + 2 days (per my contract) + PTO on Dec 24th and 31st + 12 holidays + 5 days Bildungsurlaub. That‘s 51 in total of paid days off.
Geez... 30 days after 25 years...
For comparison, first of all sick days don't exist in my country, if you're sick you're sick. Legal vacation days are 20, but nobody gets so few. I'm at 38 now, not including national holidays, after working exactly 0 years for the company. Indeed, this is the starter package.
working while on vacation is worktime, not vacation
Hello & good morning to all of you. Thank you Loe for picking this specific topic and share the information with your besties. I would not have thought Panama or Sri Lanka had so many PTO. When you presented 20 days minimum for Germany I was a little shocked and run a quick check but you are right this applies for 5-day-business-week.
my lazy Austrian a** sitting in home office and being surprised that we are at the top of this list (and btw we also have the extraordinary leave for passing away of relatives/moving/giving birth)
United States: I am 72. I have seen the number of PTO days decrease over my lifetime. When I was a child, the father (most moms didn't work) got at least 2 weeks. The factories in the town I lived in closed for 2 weeks in the summer and every employee got that as PTO plus an additional week at a time of their choosing after one year of employment. The longer you worked there the longer the additional time. I did have one job as an adult that gave me 4 weeks. Most jobs were less or none. I taught school for part of my career and your pay was determined on the basis of a full year even though you did not work in summer. There was no PTO. You did get 3-5 sick days. You could donate 1 day a year ro a fund and people who donated could draw from the fund for emergencies.
In the USA, for my first 22 years, I started with 30 days PTO and 11 holidays in the military. I was also able to request 3 and 4-day "long" weekends that did not count against my PTO. Plus, accumulated PTO up to 90 days rolled over any given year. This allowed me to take 90 days vacation at the end of my career and start my new career while still employed in the military. Since I started my new job 2 weeks after starting my terminal vacation, this ended up providing me with full income from 2 jobs for 2.5 months. This made the transition to civilian life much easier.
In my next 26-year career my PTO ranged from 24 to 26 days PTO, 11 holidays, & 12 sick days. We also get 3 community involvement days off and 1 personal day of observance, our own personal holiday.
Neither job was the most in the world, but suitable for my needs.
Many Military members are in Commands where 30 days leave does not equal 30 days off from work. You want Friday & Monday off and you are normally off on weekends, the weekend is charged as well for a total of 4 days used, even though you were already off work on the weekend.
Old (35 YOE), US-based. For most of my career in private industry, it was 10 days after the first year with a company (increasing by 1 week every 5 years, topping out at 4-6 weeks/year). Yes, it was common to have no PTO until you'd been there a year. This turned into a common pre-employment negotiation point & companies would generally allow you to start with 3 weeks/year without much complaining. The past couple of years have seen a fairly widespread adoption of total-experience based PTO schedules (2 weeks/year for entry level, up to 6 weeks/year for 20+ YOE). Paid holidays hover in the 10-12 days/year, depending on geography.
Greetings from Russia!
We have up to 20 public holidays (depend on the year) plus 28 calendar days of paid vacations. If you’re a teacher, you’ll have 56 vacation days.
Not to mention that maternity leave officially is up to 3 years and in the private sector companies, especially IT compete for employees with benefits, where you get paid during a part of your maternal leave and companies pay you for each child birth.
There is one caveat. You aren't entitled to vacation until 6 months of working for that particular company.
although, at most companies are worked with, you can arrange something despite that rule. Also in most places your days off arent' "burned" at the end of a year, so you could in theory just let them stack. It is generally frowned upon to take more than 2 weeks off in a row, depending on your boss, but honestly who would want that anyway.
also out sick days aren't limited, you just call and say you are sick, people generally believe you on your word, although they are entitled to ask for a doctors note (which you can get for free, we do have free healthcare)
28 days including weekends (Saturday and Sunday). Technically one could take a vacation avoiding the weekends but the companies hate it.
So in reality it’s 20 days
Thank you for the videos that you do -- these informational ones, and your many funny & poignant short skits. Worker rights!
In India, there is a pre-published calendar with a list of public/religious holidays. As per the law, all companies are required to give at least 10 paid holidays based on this calendar.
My company provides 15 vacation days, 8 casual days and 10 sick days per year, which will be carried forward to next financial year if unused (except the sick days).
As i've been working with my employer for over 4 years now, my accumulated vacations + casual days are now at 54, which I can use however I want. If you stay with your company for long time, you will be rewarded with longer vacations
I'm from the Netherlands. Legal minimum is 20 days, but most get 25 at least (apart from public holidays). I get 32 days. Surprised to not see us on the list!
Because the United States government doesn't give a crap about workers. Only what they produce.
You forgot the public holidays, which are 6 (Christmas 2 days, new year, 2nd Easter, 2nd Pentecost and Kingsday).
Loe made a selection of countries she was interested in, Netherlands apparently wasn't on her radar. And compared with some EU countries, we do pretty poorly.
@@TheEvertw for me those are included in the 32 days. But true, some have those separate.
Remember "ADV" (reduction of working hours). You're supposed to be getting that also, unless you work for a temp agency.
@@marcbloemen2082Correct. Usually you just combine those, but strictly speaking I get 25 vacation days, 13 ADV and 6 national holidays.
Australia - 20 days annual leave (vesting), 15-20 days (non-vesting) personal leave (sick, carer’s, etc), 10-14 paid public holidays. Australia also has long service leave (vesting) - 90 day full pay leave after 10 years service (with same employer) prorata after 10 years. Maternity leave is also legislated. Plus other leave depending on employer.
Romanians are often proud of their free days too, surprised it didn't make the list. I think you have a minimum of 20 paid days off work, companies advertise themselves by saying they offer 21+. You then have the 10-12 paid public holidays - some jobs might require you to work during those days, but they are required by law to compensate with +100% of that day's work or to give you the day off any other day in the following month. After all that, you get 3-5 paid days off whenever: you're getting married, your kids get married or if any member of the close family passes away (spouse, offspring).
I am really glad to be living in the EU. It is great, that we have similar rules when it comes to paid leave, so that we can visit each other countries. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
USA here, in my 14 years in the corporate world, I've had up to 25 days at my last company before leaving. Getting to this current organization, I started with 15 days but the company adopted an unlimited PTO policy, so obviously the days don't really matter anymore. However, your point about culture and the extreme overload of work means people rarely take their days off, thus saving the company their costs. Generally, in my past life, most of the company (HQ at least) would take almost all of December off because we never took time during the year and had to take it or lose it (they didn't pay out). That was the best time to actually work because you could really get stuff done :)
Note that for Kenya, people often work over 40 hrs per week or 6 days per week, so it's not that many days off considering.
😂 I have been at my job for 16 years and maxed out on allowances for time off. In one business year I’m paid 4 paid sick days & 5 weeks paid vacation - no $ pay out if I don’t use them so YES I do use them all! 😊 USA - NJ - retail job. Paid off Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bereavement- 5 days off with pay for immediate family member
In California here! From what I have seen/read, if the company has less than 25 employees, they're not legally mandated to give ANY pto, and only the 4 major holidays. If they're 25+ employees, then they must provide like 3 or 5 days per year. Holidays are totally up to the company
That doesn’t seem right, but if it is, do companies generally not offer more than 5 days of PTO?
Hello there.. I work for a US company that's based in Malaysia. PTO is based on years of service, which is anywhere between 14-24 days. On top of that, we get an average of 16-20 public holidays a year. In order to set itself apart from the other companies, our company also offers extra leave like Carer's leave (5 days if we need to take some time to take care of sick kids/parents/pets); Marriage leave (3 days coz some of us have to travel for the event) and Study/ Exam leave (5 days) which are not mandated by law. These extras make us employees feel appreciated as it's like the company realises that life happens... Also, if we have to work weekends because of tight deadlines, then we get a replacement leave, which we can take anytime before the end of that year.. I know so many of my colleagues who haven't been able to finish their PTO because if this.
Australia here, healthcare worker. Every 12 months I get 20 days personal leave, 25 days annual leave, 1 accrued day off every four weeks, and for those of us that have worked 7+ years, an additional 8 days off for long service leave (it's a British colony thing). Not to mention about 10 or so public holidays.
In Brazil, we get 30 vacation days by law after every full year.
We also have about 10 national holidays but also several other local holidays, depending on the city or state.
Also, since we our salary is monthly and not every month has the same amount of days, we have a "13th month" at the end of the year to compensate for the extra work where we receive a full month of our salary. So, basically, between november/december, employees receive double their monthly income.
in the UK legally the government has to give you 20 days not including bank holidays but most companies start around the 22-25 mark and increase with service years.
This is super interesting!!! Thanks for the video and if you can, please make a part 2 🎉
India here- 26 Earned Leaves, 10 public holidays and 6 days of sick leaves. I work in IT.
We also get 180 days of paid maternity leave and 2 weeks of paternity leave. Bereavement leaves for deaths in immediate family 5 days. Adoption leaves are also given.
Unlimited PTO for the win!
Correct me if I’m wrong. When you have unlimited PTO, you don’t get paid out the unused days if you quit or get fired?
Example: if you have 3 weeks of PTO and you get laid off without using those days, you get a severance plus the payout for the unused PTO.
@@BisongArtGallery100% correct. It's a benefit that doesn't really benefit the employee...
First time commenter here. I working at a global company with an enormous presence in the US. My company has both union and non-union workers. I have 13 years of service and get 20 days PTO, 10 paid holidays, 5 sick days and 3 floating holidays,,,,so 38 total days for me.
Poland here :) 20 days if you work less than 10 years in total (but university degrees count as 8 years) so in reality you work for 2 years after graduation and you have 26 days of PTO. People with disabilities get additional 10 days a year. In addition to that 10 days of public holidays (and if holiday is on Saturday you get this day back in lieu), 2 additional days for childcare (aside from that you can take sick leave 80% paid up to 60 days a year for sick kid) also you can take up to 14 days of sick leave to care for family members and it’s 80% paid. For employees themselves it’s up to 182 days of sick leave a year and it’s also 80% paid, except for pregnancy sick leaves which are 100% paid.
And it’s mandatory here to take 10 consecutive working days off in a year to get proper rest, companies are very strict about that because fines for denying employees to take a break are hefty.
And unused vacation days can be used next year.
And people on maternity leave (about a year) are eligible for the vacation days so when you come back you have it double :)
We also have additional days off for some situations like birth of a child, death of a relative, wedding. Fathers get 14 days of paid leave after their child is born and 9 weeks of parental leave.
Australia also has 2 days paid bereavement leave each occassion, 10 days paid sick leave, 10 days domestic violence leave, 10 days paternity leave, 18 weeks maternity leave, and long service leave after 7-10 years that keeps accruing indefinately.
I have never heard of time off for domestic violence. I've heard of it called out in disability or acceptable reasons for sick leave
Aussie here. Each year I get 4 weeks annual leave (with the option to purchase 2 more weeks each year) and 3 weeks personal leave (sick or carers leave). The annual and personal leave continues to accumulate each year.
There 10 public holidays annually, and after 10 years service I get a lump sum of 13 weeks long service leave that can also be taken at half pay for double the time. It continues to accumulate each year so after another 10 years you get another 13 weeks. Or it can be used pro-rata. I also only work a 9 day fortnight, so get two 3-day weekends a month.
Im in the US. I have worked retail most of my life. Most places give zero paid vacation, personal, or sick days for non-management employees; unless required to by state law. I only started getting sick time in the last three years because of state law.
Thank you. This was fun!
I don't know where you got your info about the UK from but it's wrong. From the official government site. 'Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.'
I began my career in Minnesota there, it was always 10 days off no matter how many hours you worked; these 10 hours included sick days so you were screwed if you got sick.
However, CTO did not include hospitality industry workers.
Not only that in Minnesota for women, there was a glass ceiling, a very very heavy unbreakable glass ceiling.
In 2003 my family left Minnesota for Michigan; in Michigan I have always had 15 days CTO which could but may not include sick days.
I guess it makes sense, Michigan is the state of where the unions are.
US here. It highly depends on the industry you are in, and each company will handle it differently. Some companies separate vacation and sick time, others lump it all together under PTO. If you are in a professional industry, you are more likely to be offered substantial PTO. I'm a CPA. At my firm, every level starts with 4 weeks, plus we have 13 or so paid holidays in top of that. I'm currently at 5.5 weeks. My firm will also only require you to use PTO if you are going to be working less than 4 hours that day, so you don't end up needing to use it for doctors appointments and things like that. Plus they are also randomly give us extra paid holiday time, like we usually get July 4th and 5th off but this year we also got July 3rd just because they felt like it. They are also very generous with maternity and paternity leave, adoption leave, etc. This is all fairly common in public accounting. Other industries they routinely get nothing at all, even sick time, unless your state requires a minimum.
Noone in Germany has only tze minimum PTO, since companies want to keep union membership low they offer union condition contracts to non-union workers, so the tariffs apply, meaning 30 days/six weeks PTO. Plus public holidays, plus "unlimited" sick days (requiring a doctor's notice ofc), plus occasional days for moving/mourning/marrying.
In Australia for every 12 months you work (provided you’re a full-time employee) you get 4 weeks paid time off. You can get more than this but many employers don’t like you taking more paid time off than this and they request you take leave if you have in excess of 4 weeks. Also if you’ve been with a company for 10 years you are entitled to long service leave which is 3 months paid time off.
Yes I live in Luxembourg how cool is that :)
The youth of the US are fed. Not a single vacation day. It does depend on the job situation but usually new employees are just screwed.
Hi Laura, I used to work in Luxembourg and I had 26 days off (private sector) + public holidays. I absolutely used the two days off for moving!
Arizona here - my company is privately owned by a small business owner, new employees that are office/project manager/superintendent/project engineer/ceo/cfo/controller (hourly/salaried positions) get 10 days of PTO/9 paid holidays. If you've been with the company for 10 years your PTO is 15 days, and if you've been with the company since the startup and are apart of the executive team you get 20 days of PTO. There's only 3 people who have 20 days of PTO and that's the owner, the VP, & the Chairman 😆😭. Still we are very grateful to have jobs and still around, it's a small concrete/underground utility company that's been around since 2007. If they can survive not only an economy crash and covid we can conquer anything coming at us.
Hello from Malaysia 🇲🇾, I hope you can do other videos like this to cover all other countries in the world 😊😊. Great information!!
Poland: 20-26 days, 13 paid holidays, multiple extraordinary days off (wedding, wedding of a child, funeral in the family, child care, paternity leave, etc), up to 182 days of paid sick leave, 61 weeks of paid maternity leave but you can take additional parental leave and it sums up to 36 months of paid leave
In the United States a lot of times you do not work a year before you have vacation. And typically there are only 6 holidays sometimes a company will give you 1 floating holiday to suit anyone arguing about a religious holiday. Starting out in corporate jobs will usually offer one week paid vacation a year until working there 5 years. I now want to move🤔🧐
I am a nurse in the US. I have spent almost 12 years working in either Texas or California during my career. On average, my employers have offered 14 days of PTO, and only some had a separate bank for sick days. Other general benefits include 6 weeks for new child/adoption of child, 2-3 days for death of immediate family member, and about 8-10 paid holidays (depending on the company).
Hi not sure where you got the stat's for Australia from but we get 20 days a year recreation leave (25 if you work shift work) plus 10 days paid sick leave. Once you have worked for the one company for 10 years you also get 12 weeks 'Long Service Leave'. Then depending on your working agreement it either starts the 10 year clock ticking again on the next ten years or you get 9 calendar days LSL added each year. We also get 13 public holidays a year including one for a horse race LOL there is a reason that whenever you go on holidays you are bound to meet an Aussie or two.
The horse race holiday is only for victoria, not the rest of australia.
I'm in the US and have been with my company for over 20 years.
We have an earned PTO banking policy - you earn hours every pay period with a bank max of 240 hours. (Once your bank is full, you stop earning until you take time off.) When you've been with the company for 15 years, you hit the max earning at 6 weeks/year. This is on top of the 14 paid company/public holidays (including our birthday). They also pay us our regular salary if we have to take time off for jury duty. (We do have to turn over our jury duty check to the company.) Funeral pay is between 1 and 3 days (depending on the relationship to the deceased).
All in all it's a decent company to work at.
I worked in Central Florida. My employer decided to combine vacation and sick leave together. I was able to take numerous vacations and take leave for sick when needed. At my retirement I cashed in my days and currently have a nice nest egg!
I'm in the US, and my firm is very generous with PTO. I've been my firm a long time, and I get 5 weeks vacation, 14 sick days, and about 10 paid holidays. It varies drastically from company to company.
13:34 As a worker in Costa Rica, here's what I'm entitled to for various types of leave:
1. My vacation leave:
I get 2 weeks (14 calendar days) of paid vacation each year after I've worked 50 weeks continuously.
2. If I'm sick:
I can take up to 3 days of paid sick leave for minor illnesses without needing a doctor's note. If I'm sick for longer, I'll need a medical certificate, and my leave will be covered by social security.
3. If I'm expecting a baby (maternity leave):
I'm entitled to 4 months of leave - 1 month before my due date and 3 months after. During this time, I'll receive 100% of my salary, which is split between my employer and social security.
4. If I'm a new father (paternity leave):
I can take 2 days of paid leave. This benefit was just introduced in 2022.
These are my basic leave entitlements as a worker in Costa Rica. (Public and private sectors)
Then the teachers:
- Without maternity/paternity leave: About 8-10 weeks vacation + 3 days sick leave
- With maternity leave (for female teachers): Add 17 weeks
- With paternity leave (for male teachers): Add 2 days
I get 11 official paid holidays per year. These are:
- January 1: New Year's Day
- April 11: Juan Santamaría Day
- Thursday and Friday of Holy Week (dates vary each year)
- May 1: Labor Day
- July 25: Annexation of Guanacaste Day
- August 2: Our Lady of Los Ángeles Day
- August 15: Mother's Day
- September 15: Independence Day
- December 25: Christmas Day
PS. The paid sick leave is “renewed” every 30 natural days (although this is not official)
Working in the public service in Australia I'd get the normal 4 weeks off a year and because I worked weekends a lot, for every 10 sundays I worked I'd get an extra week paid leave. I was also in the Army Reserve for a number of years and got another 2 weeks paid leave (base pay) to go to training camps. For a long time I would save my rec leave and make the Army Camp my annual holiday and save up my rec leave for big trips overseas, but eventually my work said I couldn't save up more than 2 years worth of holidays. Bummer!
In Spain you also have days like in Luxembourg, for moving, marrying, maternal and paternal leave, sick days, close relatives in the hospital, grieve time, etc...
There are a lot of companies who don’t pay for any time off depending on what you do. I used to groom dogs and we didn’t get anything paid. Not even health insurance. The shop closed on major holidays so they didn’t pay. Since you work per animal you groom, you don’t get paid if you aren’t there. Now I work for the county and I have worked up to earning 20 hours pto every month. We don’t have separate sick and vacation hours they are just under the same thing.
USA TN here. If you work in food service, or retail (ie. Walmart) and you’re part time, you’re lucky if you even get sick days much less pto. If you work in banking or government, you get most national holidays paid. If you’re in office settings and full time (36+ hours per week) then you usually get 2 weeks of pto and sometimes that will include sick days.
US worker here. I have a great employer and after 12 years I'm up to 24.5 days/year. It goes up every few years, maxing out at 30 days/year around 20 years of service. We also get the 11 federal holidays off. We can cash out up to 5 days, and roll 5 days to the next year. It's use or lose for the rest of the time, so our manager starts to bug us to schedule our PTO around mid-year so that we don't lose any days. We also have a separate pool of sick days up to 8, but they start to scrutinize things if you use all of your sick days. They don't want people use sick days instead of PTO when they're not sick.
Greetings from Austria ❤ I can confirm your research 😊 25 pto + holidays + extraordinary leave similar to Luxembourg
Hungary: As far as I know, when we start working, the base PTO days are 20. It's increasing with age, number of children, and other stuff, and it has a maximum of 40 days. Plus the holidays (approx 10-12 each year), plus paternity leave (10days) - maternity leave 2+1 YEARS, plus sick days (when your child is sick, it counts too, 50%salary, usually), you can get some extra days with child under 3 (total 44 days alltogether but 10% salary), you can get extra days off for death in family too. It's quite complicated, but we have sooo many extra days off.
I am from Colorado and work for a company that provides 13 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday, gives half day Fridays during the summer, and since I have been there over 10 year now, I earn 2+days of vacation accrued per month. We earn separate sick time from vacation time. Also, after we work 7 years we get a month long sabbatical in addition to our normal vacation time. This can be taken every seven years. I realize that my company is highly unusual for paid time off here in America. It is one of the things that keeps me going with this company as the pay is more on the lower end of the spectrum compared to other companies for a similar role (I work for a non-profit).
Poland here 👋🏻 We have 26 days of PTO plus about 11 bank holidays plus extraordinary days off (2 days - own wedding, birth of a child, death and funeral of a child, spouse, parent, stepmother or stepfather; 1 day - wedding of the child, death and funeral of the grandparent, brother, sister, in-laws or death and funeral of another person dependent on the employee or under the employee’s direct care). Also we have ‘unlimited’ sick leave (mentioning as I’ve heard some countries use their PTO for sickness) and during prenganancy this sick leave is 100% paid.
Having that said many people don’t use their PTO fully during calneldar year and we have the remaining days transferred for a next calendar year so one could collect a pretty nice amount of PTO. ✌🏻
I’m in the UK & my work has 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Then we can also buy/sell up to 5 days per year. We also have additional leave types too such as jury duty, bereavement, moving leave. Also 6 months maternity & it was 2 weeks paternity but I believe this has recently been increased too. I love our annual leave benefits!
Macedonia: 20-26 paid vacation days, 11 paid public holydays + more paid holidays, depending on ethnicity, religion etc. There are some extra paid days off for some occasions like: weddings, loss, moving house but that depends on company. 9 months maternity leave for 1 child and 15 months for twins. 2 months unpaid leave for care of a child under the age of 3.
California bestie here. Most of the jobs I have had have offered 14 days PTO after the first year, 3-5 sick days (separate from PTO) and 7-8 paid holidays a year. The company I'm with now has been generous with 15 days PTO to start, 5 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. I also get to wfh and never have to worry about going into an office, he never plans to open a brick and mortar site.
I'm in Germany! The minimum is 20 days but most companies offer you more, I have 28 days currently plus the holidays and unlimited sick days. My company also offers time off for sick child, bereavement, or if you're moving house, the allotment varies. I've been w/ the company for 2 years so far, going on 3.
In my last job in the US, I was given 10 days PTO (for both vacation AND sick days) per year. I worked at that company for 2 years before moving to Europe. The difference is night and day!
I am very fortunate. I get 25 days of PTO per year in the US working for an American company. There are an additional 12 days of holiday pay including the major holidays plus the ~week between Christmas and New Years.
Hello from Portugal.
My company gives 25 work days of vacation leave with full pay. Most companies have 22 work days
30 day per year for family assistance if needed.. Paid in full
If I'm sick, I've all the days the doctor says I need. Also paid
150 or 180 days of maternity paid leave for the mother. The father has also 60 days of paternity leave. I think is 60.
Reduced hours until the baby is one year old. Also paid in full.
Every religious holiday is a day to rest.
11 work days as a present if you get married
Austria here: per year it is a minimum 25 days PTO + max. 13 paid public holidays (depending if the weekday they fall on is a regular workday for you) + between 1-3 days for each of the following incidents: child birth (fathers), death of family member, moving, certain government citations (depending on your collective wage agreement and individual company’s employment contract). Additionally up to a week PTO for caring for a family member living in the same household. Furthermore you can use amassed overtime to take days off. My contract does not allow me to to amass overtime (as it is included in my salary) but I can take up to three more days of PTO / year. PTO and overtime hours can (up to a certain number) be transferred to the next year (and are added to the new minimum PTO days). Maternity leave = maternity protection leave (8 weeks before and after date of birth) + min. 2 months and max. 23 months (depending on a variety of things). Payment is, depending on the length of the maternity leave a certain percentage of your last wage/salary.
North Carolina here...where I work makes it complicated because even within the company it can depend if you are on PTO or Vacation/Sick Time. For me you start at 10 vacation days and 12 Sick Days, with an additional 8 paid holidays and 6 "D-Days" which are for the months without a paid holiday. So 18 days off + 12 Sick days to start, after 4 years you get 15 vacation days and after 9 years you go to 20 vacation days.
Norway
A minimum of 25 days paid PTO
Most have 30 days
And for those that are 60+ years, you get another week of.
Paid holidays: 5-10 (some paid days change each year depending on which weekday if falls on)
Sickdays: 12 days per year, max 3 days in a row
For longer: 100% paid sickleave with doctors note for up to 12 months
Sick children: 1-2 children 10 days per parent/20 for single parents with 100% parental rights, additional 5 more days for each child there after/10 for single.
Normal: pto/leave with pay to care for elders, doctors visit, dentistvisits, follow children to the doctor etc normal up to 10 days per year.
All the above 100% paid.
And not to forget 100% paid parental leave for 49 weeks :)
And no, the taxes are not extreme ;) with free healthcare with the taxes. An avarage income is taxed 15-20% depending on their personal finances :)
Have a look at New Zealand. There are 12 standard Holidays plus 4 weeks of annual leave but a lot of staff have 5 weeks AL. we do pretty well.
American here: I didn't realize it at the time, but yeah, my first couple jobs in food service didn't have any paid days off. To preface this, I've only worked in the private sector, but I think the public sector does have some regulation on national holidays and such.
I remember when I worked at a restaurant that gave 1 day of paid sick leave per X amount of hours and I was stoked and thought that was such a great benefit. However, I switched to programming jobs, and it seems like a lot of "professional" jobs have about 1 week of PTO to start, and it's dependent on the company what holidays are off and whether or not they're paid. However hourly jobs tend to not have paid days off. You can usually get days off as needed, but it's almost always unpaid, regardless of the reason
Austrian here: The 25/30 vacation days apply to full-time workers, part-time workers get fewer vacation days. Traditionally practically all shops are closed on public holidays and Sundays, giving sales personnel at least one full day off on the weekend. Employees who have to work on a holiday or Sunday (e.g. restaurant workers) get extra compensation (either pay or paid time off). Despite focusing on a high work-life balance Austria has a per capita GDP above the EU average (France's is slightly below). Also, all workers and employees get 4 to 6 weeks of sick leave paid by the employer and up to one year of sick leave paid by Social Security per year.
I'm pretty happy with my PTO over here in Belgium. We have 10 paid public holidays, 20 paid vacations days (which increase with seniority after 5 years with the same company) and what we call recoup time - standard working hours is 38 hours per week, but a lot of companies will work 39 hours, which gives you an extra 6 days per year. I currently work a 40-hour week so I'm entitled to 12 extra days, so total 42 paid days off a year. We also have entitlement to 4 months of parental leave per child on top of paternal or maternity leave to take before the child is 12, but can also be taken as a reduction in work time, so you can choose to do 80% and take 1 day a week off. The only issue I've seen is if you have taken a career break for whatever reason, you will need to earn your vacation time, so no paid days for the first year. New graduates are gifted 5 days which I've heard a fair few people complain about...
Hey, Aussie here. 20 days paid annual leave plus paid public holidays. Employers can increase that and some industries have 30days. Teachers are paid over the school holidays. My company has 20days holiday which you can accrue and they have to pay you out if you leave or are fired. We also have 20days personal leave which can be sick/carers type leave and you just need a doctors certificate after 2 days and this accrues too. We also have long service leave which accrues at 3 months extra leave for every 10years service
I have worked for my company in the US for 7 years!
0 paid vacation days
0 paid sick days
0 health insurance
0 paid bereavement
60 hour work weeks
Due to the type of work that I do I only qualify for overtime after working 246 hours in a two week period!
United States has slaves called employees
Isn't capitalism nice?
let me guess, also at will employment !?
South Carolina in US = 1 week vacation =1st -3year / 3-5=2 weeks / over 5=3weeks paid vacation (PTO has changed - my hubby has 40, but he's been there 7 years). Then there's bereavement, maternity, adoption, etc.
Switzerland here: The minimum is 4 weeks annual leave, though most companies have 5 for their employees. Have never actually worked at one that had only 4 weeks. Paid holidays are different from place to place, but on average I would say it's around 10-12 additionally and we also have paid leaves for occasions like moves, deaths and all that stuff, which is usually between 1-5 days, depending on the occasion of course. Higher ages usually also get a bit more annual leave, they usually go up from 25 days to 30 days. Also at some companies you can actually buy more vacation time, like 1-2 weeks more, though that will of course alter your income a little bit.
Wow. I'll count my blessings. I'm in the US and I get 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 holidays, and 15 days sick time. None of it is just suddenly available, however. Each accrue so many hours per month, except jury duty and bereavement which is up to 5 days per year. So, you can't take 3 weeks vacation again until you've accrued the hours again, in about 12 months time. However, most of us take 1 week vacation and 2 separate weeks stay-cation. We find it helps our morale and gives us mental health days where we can just turn off from work mode and focus on ourselves or our families. Also, we can use our sick time to cover doctor appointment days for ourselves or our family if we find ourselves not needing them for actually being sick. (I'm rarely sick and so is my family but with 4 kids, regular doctor/dentist visits are a must.)
🎉 nice to see, that my homecontry is top of the list in something good finally! And yes, 25 days (aka 5 Werks) are great, still envy the older employes with 6 weeks pto😂
I get most federal, Election Day, I get paid for office closures. I’m not to upset about the time off.
As others have said, in Australia 20 days (business days, so 4 weeks) annual leave, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, compassionate leave if needed. Then you also earn Long Service Leave, which varies industry to industry, but the average seems to be 10 weeks after 10 years work, accruing at two weeks per year after that.
Now some 'Muricans might complain that 'someone has to pay for that', which is true, or call it 'Communizm!1!!', which isn't true, but compare standard of living indicators between our nations, and see who is benefiting the most here.
Lithuania: 11 public holiday days, so paid days off + 20 working days (not including weekends) for a starting position. Amaount of days increase for amount of tears worked and for parents (2 kids = +1 day per month = 12 days per year on top of all mentioned).
I am from Poland and here it is: 20 days per calendar year for workers with a length of service of less than 10 years and
26 days per calendar year for workers with a length of service of at least 10 years. Your days at college also count into it. Also, you get 2 days per each child as child care leave, 2 days of days off on demand - all paid for. Sick leave paid 80%.
In Brazil, we have 30 vacation days and 9 national holidays. You have the option to sell all of your vacation days back to the company. If you choose to do so, you won't have any time off during the year. However, if you don't sell any of your vacation days, then taking 30 days off is mandatory.
As a federation, there are also variations in laws between states, along with state-specific holidays unique to each federated state.
In Spain we also have some paid leaves when we marry (15), or move houses (1), or when we lose someone close (1-2). There's also a paid maternity or paternity leave if 16-20 weeks.
A New Zealander here- who moved to New York 17 years ago, I started with a Fortune 100 corporate company where I was only given 10 days, $9.40 per hour (with good benefits) 3 days sick, 3 bereavement. After 17 years I was getting 23 days vacation, 4 days sick, and 5 days bereavement. Meanwhile my family and friends in NZ spoke to the 4 weeks they get after working one year for a private company. I left the company due to 22 reasons and now looking for better benefits… going back to NZ sounds better with every USA comment I read.
Brazil: in total, employees in Brazil typically have around **38 to 40 days** of paid time off per year, including annual vacation and public holidays, depending on the number of local holidays in their region. By law, any employees are entitled to **30 days** of paid vacation each year after completing 12 months of work.
In INDIA (Private School), I get about 29 paid off day total a year (its scatted all-around year) + Summer vacation- 36 days, Diwali Vacation- 11 days, Winter vacation- 2-3 days + 2 sick leaves per month + 1 casual leave per month + 1 paid leave per month, so that give me as a teacher and my husband as a banker a total of 126 paid days off, that's kind of what we get some might say its a lot but many of these days we might have to work from homes too and Sunday is a working day from home that's all.
Where I work, here in the US, I get 10 sick days, 2 days PTO, and 10 days of vacation, after 1 year of work, with 5 days added every 5 years. We also get most holidays off and the whole plant shuts down for a week at Christmas.
US here: My company seems to be an exception. I’ve been there for just over 3 years. I get 20 vacation + 3 personal + 10 sick days + all Federal holidays. If holiday falls on a weekend we get a floating day to use any time after the holiday but prior to the end of first quarter next year. Vacation and personal are “use it or lose it.” Oh, and that’s from day 1. After 5 years it increases to 25 vacation and 15 sick.