How many days of holiday, leave, sick days do you get?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

How many days do you get, and do you feel it is enough to restore you?

What do you think is a generous amount, and what is measly?

I know MN is mainly UK but interested in responses from all countries. I'm looking for jobs in the US, and my god it is so complicated! All companies have different mixes of vacation days, personal days, holidays (pretty much think this is like bank hols, and if the office is closed for Christmas etc) and then rather confusingly - a set amount of sick days.

I think 25 days plus bank hols is standard. I get 39 days:
36 as hols
2 bank hols (you can take more but they come out of your allowance)
1 day for your birthday.

U.K. private sector. I think it’s great

I’m in the private sector in UK.
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. We can buy or sell up to 5 days each year too. We have to take 3 days over Christmas though. But they give us 0.5 a day on Christmas Eve.

I think sick leave is 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay - we’ve just moved to a scoring system for disciplinaries for that (at least we’re away from Bradford now!). Or it might be 6 months of each now - I’m rarely sick so don’t remember 😳 We get additional bonus if we have 100% attendance in the year (which I don’t think is a good thing tbh).

They’re pretty fair with flexible working requests - lots of people working 4 day weeks or finishing early etc. Honestly this is something I never knew I’d value so much until I had it and knew what was possible.

33 days leave, all bank holidays, 6 months full/6 months half pay sick. We can also buy or sell up to 5 days leave every year

27 days and all bank holidays. Can purchase an additional 5 days as well. Very generous sick pay and switched to income protection if long term sick. Flexible working including working from home and I do split days in the school holidays.

@VaggieMight

People should take into account paid sick leave entertainment before accepting a job offer. No one plans to be long-term sick but it can happen to anyone. I've worked for a health charity and seen people on a six figure salary suddenly dip into poverty if the employer only offers SSP.

Not really the kind of question you can ask at interview tho

Not really the kind of question you can ask at interview tho

Definitely something to ask before accepting though.

30 days holiday plus 8 for Bank Holidays
4 months full pay sick
4 months half pay

Those of us that weren't furloughed have been given an extra 10 days holiday this year. Chuffed about that

I'm very lucky as my job is incredibly flexible. I never need to take leave for appointments (including hair/nails) so its more than enough for me. Also, if I'm unwell but not bed bound, I can just say I'm going to take it easy today.

20 days, or which we have to save 3 ot 4 for the xmas closure, and 8 bank holidays. Only SSP.
It doesn't leave much time to rest, cos most days are used for inset days, hospital, dentist appointments etc.

35 days holiday (but I have an extra week for long service). There's no limit to sick days technically, but if I take more than 2 in a calender year disciplinary action is taken and you start being closely monitored.

34 days holiday including any bank holidays we take (only close for two days each at Christmas and new year) plus 1 day for every 5 year's service. Can buy an additional 5 days.

No sick allowance, but get full pay for up to 13 weeks in a year. Can be extended at manager's discretion.

Can take parental leave, but this is unpaid.

UK.

Our annual leave (public sector)is worked out in hours.
I work 2 days a week and my annual allocation is 123 hours holiday.
Sick pay is 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay.

I’m in the UK and an academic. I get 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus about 2 weeks of closure days when the university is closed and we are not expected to work (all paid), I’m eligible for the usual 8 weeks or whatever of unpaid parental leave but I’ve never had to take it. Between Dh and I, my AL and closure days and dh taking (unpaid) days off (he’s self employed) is perfectly sufficient to cover holidays and school holidays. As far as I know I get mostly unlimited paid sick days as long as it’s not more than 7 days in a row. I’ve only been off that long when I had quite a complicated miscarriage. Otherwise, no one really cares where I am as long as the work gets done.

Around 20 days. Builder holidays are set so not taking those kind of roles again as ties you to dates.. but office roles around 20 days a year

UK, public sector. Standard 10+ years service allowance, which works out at about 8.5 weeks a year between annual leave and public holidays. 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay sick leave. Various other paid leaves where appropriate such as carers, special and parental leave.

As a TA, normally 12 weeks holiday a year. In past jobs I had 6 weeks holiday but I can't imagine just having such a limited amounr of time off now. It spoils you really but I do appreciate how lucky we are. The 12 weeks includes all the bank Holidays etc. Of course, the downside is we are limited to when we can take leave and holidays are always much more expensive when the schools are off. Having said that my ds is school age anyway.

Oh, produce a doctor's note after 7 days. Full pay. Then 6 months full pay then 6 half.

Self-employed, so no paid holidays or sick pay. I'm not taking off much time this year, as my industry is likely to be struggling next year following COVID. Currently working about 60 hours a week on two jobs to earn a buffer.

Unlimited holiday
Not sure about sick pay. Think it’s extensive

UK company.
Since they introduced unlimited holidays the time taken off hasn’t gone up really. People just feel much more invested, they have high retention etc. I think they find witj most people they might take more one year, a honeymoon/big trips etc but the following year they’ll take less. Obviously if you take too much the obvious question of ‘do you have any work to do?’ will be asked so people don’t go crazy with it.

Just been offered a new job

25 days’ holiday plus your birthday off plus 8 days’ bank holiday

Can buy 10 days extra a year which I will be as soon as I can

So 44 days all in that will be. Not bad. You can never have too many holidays

Sick pay not great, SSP in first year, then 2 weeks full pay, then after another year 4 weeks full pay

28 days leave plus bank holidays.
3 months of sick leave at full pay, then SSP after that.

My previous firm's benefits were brilliant. I had 30 days of leave plus the ability to buy 5 days more, plus bank holidays, plus condensed working hours so I did 10 days in 9. Once you'd been there four years it was 26 weeks full sick pay, then 26 weeks at 75% of pay. The thing I really miss though is the matched pension up to 15% as my current pension is shite. However my current company is much nicer to work for, so swings and roundabouts.

UK public sector. I work part time but FTE is 32 days holiday per year (I'm at the maximum) + standard bank hols pro rata. 5 days FTE paid parental leave (to look after a sick child usually or other emergency) but this is very much at managers discretion and I have sometimes had more, sometimes less. We were offered paid special leave during covid for if we needed to self isolate and couldnt easily WFH etc but as key workers we mostly sent our kids to school at least part time if not needing to shield or SI.
Sick pay is 6 months full time pay max I think but questions are asked after 3 separate illness periods in any 12 months so 3 x 1 day sickness episodes trigger the disciplinary process officially. IRL there is a lot of management discretion.
Matching of pension contribution up to 15% of salary.

UK Civil Service. 25 days holiday plus 8 bank hols rising to 30 days after 10 years service. The ability to take an extra 5 days of accrued flexi time every month on top of annual leave allowance and also TOIL. Sickness is 5 months full pay.

I usually take 2 extra days flexi every month so add that to my 30 days annual leave (not including bank hols) and that’s 54 days leave a year. I usually take accrued flexi hours off as half days or early finishes but know people who take the full 5 days extra a month.

I get twenty five days holiday, another five days can be used on top of that for if a dependent is ill and we can have a maximum of eight weeks a year off sick which is full pay. We can also carry over a maximum of seven days which has to be taken by April.

Twenty five days is a lot, the last two years I've ended up carrying days over