I am an admin assistant, but all people in my university, including tech people, get the same vacation benefits

After being here 6 years, I get 18 vacation days and 1 week PTO/sick time. I am hourly. At the same time worked, were I salaried, I would get 20 vacation days and unlimited sick time.

I get 20 days combined vacation/sick leave, though this year we get an extra bonus week in place of the shorter Friday summer hours we got last year. Which suits me much better, as I still have to spend 3 hours driving and $20 gas for days that end at 2pm.

I get 18 days combined sick/personal/vacation. At my last place I had two weeks vacation and unknown sick time - nobody ever called me on it, anyway.

For a person in reasonable health with no dependents, having it all lumped together like that is a pretty good deal. I'm actually probably less likely to take "I just don't feel like it" sick days because I don't want to spent vacation on it - but if I decide to, I don't have to fake sick. If you have kids, I suspect it's a different calculation.

At my old job, I had been there 11 years and had 20 vacation days/5 sick days/2 personal days. The sick and personal days were company wide and not dependent on how long you had been there.

I would have been getting 20 days vacation when I hit year 11 at my former job.

::sighs::

I suspect there would be more than the officially written leeway if I used sufficient sick days (or family medical crisis days) to burn through all my vacation. But I'm not eager to ever find out. As it is, I usually miss about seven days a year or so to a flu and the odd migraine I can't head off, and that counterbalances my difficulty scheduling official chunks of vacation time frequently enough to use it all up.

Yeah, I would have jumped to three weeks off + sick time at the old job instead of two if I'd held out another two weeks. And a few months later I'd have jumped again to 18 months or so off when I had to choke a bitch.

When I was salaried, I think we got two weeks of vacation plus 5 floating days (for holidays, technically), and sick time came out of our short-term disability time, which was 30 days.

I love the accumulated sick time, as I now have somewhere in the vicinity of 8 weeks saved up. I can take that in the event of an illness before short-term disability would kick in (which is a % of my pay, not equal to it).

After year 1, I have 2 weeks vacation. We get 5 sick days a year and discresionary days of up to 5.

I still have 10 days left.