Federal workers now have 44 (FORTY FOUR) paid holidays per year! (salaries, Christmas)

[moneill]

Originally Posted by djmilf

WoW! That four days more per year than I get in the private sector! I'm outraged, I tellz yah!

Four days for sick days, vacation days and national holidays?

[Ohiogirl81]

Federal workers now have 44 (FORTY FOUR) paid holidays per year!

44 days of PTO, not 44 holidays.

Do you ever read your own links?

[TMSRetired]

That's a month and a half off......boy our tax dollars at work keeping Americans paid and enjoying those holidays.

[BaptistFundie]

Originally Posted by moneill

So how much vacation days do you folks get? How many paid holidays? How many sick days?

I'm curious as to how this compares to market standards.

I'm not talking small business owners or sole proprietors...I'm talking the norm in the market.

I get 2 weeks. As for sick time, I can take whatever I need. When I got Covid last November I was out for 2 weeks. In hunting season I frequently do 6 hour days and scoot out early. But I make up the time and my work gets done.

[paracord]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

44 days of PTO, not 44 holidays.

Do you ever read your own links?

Call it whatever you want.

[Frank DeForrest]

Give them 365, it would be better in the long run for the average citizen (i.e. the politically unconnected)

[DXBtoFL]

Originally Posted by moneill

So how much vacation days do you folks get? How many paid holidays? How many sick days?

I'm curious as to how this compares to market standards.

I'm not talking small business owners or sole proprietors...I'm talking the norm in the market.

Outside banking, which follows federal holidays, preciously few private sector companies give employees 44 PTO days off a year.

I get about 20 days PTO, which is considered above average. New hires start at 13-15ish? People who have been around for a long time can have as many as 25 days. Consulting firm.

[Eeyore1954]

Originally Posted by BaptistFundie

"Before Thursday, federal employees received pay for 10 federal holidays, 13 sick days and 20 vacation days per year on average. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com estimate these benefits cost taxpayers $22.6 billion annually."

This is #11.

Not sure where you get the idea of 9 weeks off.

44 days off is almost 9 weeks of paid time off.

I use to work at the IRS now I wonder why I left.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by BaptistFundie

Not sure where you get the idea of 9 weeks off.

Don't let facts get in the way of some cathartic outrage.

Seems to be another of those "I am being treated horribly, and everyone else should, too!" threads that always pop up when somebody else's lot improves. Crab pot.

[turkey-head]

My god people are petty.

It's not that other people get too many days off. It's that you don't get enough. Do something for yourself rather than trying to tear down other people.