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s/o Question about paid time off

I'm impressed by some of the paid time off that people get and I was wondering how much that has changed in the time since you started your job.  Was it the same from the beginning or do you accrue more time the longer than you work with a company?

Just trying to get an idea of what to expect for when I do eventually get a job offer after school.

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Re: s/o Question about paid time off

  • I think I got 12 days off my first year (most were sick, maybe 2 personal?) and 15 days off every year since (12 sick, 3 personal).
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  • i said it in my post - but I get 4 hours off a pay period both sick and annual, and after 3 years it will be 6 hours a pay period, and after 15 years it will be 8 hours a pay period.

    My father's company starts you off with 3 weeks of paid vacation and unlimited sick time.  When my mother was faculty at Hopkins she had unlimited of both - no one really tracked it.

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  • When I first started working with this company almost 5 years ago, I was only getting 18 Days of PTO at the beginning of each year. About two years ago they changed the policy and we all have to accrue the time.  If you've worked for the company for three years you start accruing more time, now it's 25 days (PTO). It worked  in our favor for me and a few other people, but employees who have been with the company more than 15 year kind of got screwed. They lost 3 or 4 days. 
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  • Working for the federal goverment there is a general schedule for accruing leave.  For my first three years I was accruing 4 hours of vacation leave and 4 hours of sick leave every pay period, which is every 2 weeks.  Now I earn 6 hours of annual, but the sick leave stays the same.  I'm not certain about this, but you can carry over hours until you reach somewhere between 180-200 ( I think)
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  • I work for the state university system, so I will always get the same amount of time off, but I will start to accrue it faster, I think.
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  • Public sector is notorious for giving copious amounts of leave out.  The private sector severely varies.  One company I worked at we got 35 days of PTO per year to be used for everything (sick, personal, vacay) but it didn't carry over.  Another company I used to work for we only got 12 PTO days but could carry over 3 per year with a cap of 30 days per year. 

    When you're going to apply for jobs, if the leave seems low, try using it as a negotiation tatic if the salary is non-negotiable.  That's what I did for the company that only had 12 PTO days...they wouldn't increase the salary so I asked for 6 more PTO days and got them.

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  • We get 15 days of PTO regardless of whether we just started or if we have been here for 7 years (like me). It kind of sucks.
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  • I had to check the manual, but we get 4 weeks of leave for the first year, 5 weeks for years 2-5, then 6 and after you get 6 weeks of leave, you can carry-over 2 weeks.

    The one really nice thing is that while we accrue our leave, they give it to you at the beginning of the year after your first year.  However, if you take leave (like I did when DD was born) you don't accrue leave while you are out on ML - so that kinda pissed me off - so I had ~ 6 less days that year. 

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  • imagemrs. remy:
    We get 15 days of PTO regardless of whether we just started or if we have been here for 7 years (like me). It kind of sucks.

    This is exactly me. I accrue the same 4.62 hours of PTO per pay period as I did when I started 6.5 years ago. It comes out to 15 days per year.

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  • My time off has increased by 2 weeks in the 12 years that i have been with the state, it essentially doubled!
  • imagemadladybride:
    I work for the state university system, so I will always get the same amount of time off, but I will start to accrue it faster, I think.

    This. And I don't think its faster, I think we get 3 more annual leave days at like 10 years of service or something. 

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  • With my company everyone has the same amount of sick/personal leave per year.  Vacation per our employee handbook is:

    2 Weeks:  Less Than 3 Years of Service

    3 Weeks:  3 Years Service+

    4 Weeks:  7 Years Service+

    Of course everyone has their own contract/negotiations so this is the standard, not the norm, and you can carryover up to 5 vacation days per year.  The number of vacation days has not changed since I started working here in 2006, but the option to carry 5 days over has.  We used to be on a use it or lose it plan.

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