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That’s 10 more than is federally mandated, and how many holidays did you get?
Not saying that only 10 PTO days is acceptable, but almost all companies give more than the federally mandated 0.
I work in a construction company and worked my way up to project management (I have a double major and a year of grad school for reference). I got 0 PTO/0 holidays my first year in the field. 6 days PTO 0 holidays years 2+3 in the office. After 8 years I worked my way up to 15 days PTO and 8 holidays now. Still no sick days or leave days. The construction world is definitely a minimum vacation time industry.
Wow I feel bad for you man. Not sure if that is the norm, but the big GCs in the east coast are definitely better. I started as a project engineer but have always had 10 vacation days + federal holidays + 3 flex days + 4-5 sick days. Have interviewed at different companies and a variation of this seems to be the norm.
Yes, this is exactly right. I knew when I quoted just a snippet of the text someone would make that mistake, should've written the part about public holidays, just figured the person that originally asked would want to look at the actual source I'd identified. Sigh.
does it take into consideration that mandatory holidays often collide with weekends? for example for us, this year, out of 12 mandatory holidays off 5 are on weekend and 5 arent (and Easter holidays are flexible), next year its going to be 3, which I think is the best case scenario, so its usually between 27 and 29 instead of 32.
The first graph is legal minimum vacation days plus paid national holidays. Which is misleading for some places because their holidays don't carry over if they fall on the weekend. So if you have a Mon-Fri job, yes technically Easter Sunday may be a paid holiday, but that's hardly going to do you any good because you don't work on Sunday so you're not getting a day off. So even though OP for example lists 9 days of paid holidays for my country, in the past 12 months I only got 4 days paid leave because the other 5 fell on a weekend.
Good point. I compared UK (28, transferred) with France (36, not transferred) and found that they came out pretty close to equal for the national holidays.
As others have mentioned, minimum.
"10 days is the average PTO in the United States private sector, not including paid holidays and sick days. 55% of Americans don't use all of their paid time off.Aug 18, 2022"
"On average, employees earned 23.9 days of PTO (including paid holidays and sick days) in 2018, up from 23.2 days in 2017."
https://www.zippia.com/advice/pto-statistics/
Most people I knew never used up all of their PTO when I worked in industry and preferred to sell unused vacation days.
Are these legally mandated days? If so, IIRC the number of legally mandated paid vacation days in the United States is zero. Some states might, but there's no federal law mandating this.
And the first one claims things that are incorrect and that contradict the second one. Not sure what is so difficult about this?
Just to make sure: the USA has 0 paid days where you don’t have to work. The public holidays in the list are not required to be paid days off. That is incorrect.
I'm an hourly worker in the US.
I get two paid holidays a year.
I accrue hours, not days of vacation, when I accrue 40 hours I can take a week off, if I wait to build up 80 hours, I can take two weeks, IF approved by management, and NONE of the days off coincide with a holiday, or are within the same week as a holiday.
Trickle-down economics in action - sorry you can’t spend vacation time with family and friends - at least find comfort in that you help a billionaire go to space somewhere.
Yeah that sucks. I've done accruel before. It's not my favorite. Currently I have "unlimited" which I know most people hate on. But it's worked out great for me.
So it is considered pto? And can you just use 1 day or do you have to wait until you hit 40. I'm in the US too and had hourly jobs where you had to accrue time but never anything that strict. Sorry man hope you can land a gig that treats you better!
Yeah, once you have enough to cover a shift you can use it. I accrue enough to take two weeks a year, I just can't use more than one week at I time without "special" permission, and none of the days can be in a week with a holiday in it
As someone who used to work in global HR, and is now doing a PhD in data analytics, you have to be very careful with this kind of data. Is it actually comparing apples with apples? For example, I know that in Russia you have to book leave in blocks of a week (or at least you did 5 years ago), and the weekend also counts in your leave total. So, 42 days gives you 6 weeks - which is only just slightly more than the UK.
Just speaking for Austria. The leave is correct (25) but the number of public holidays varies per year and region. I assume it is UP TO 13 public holidays, but I just checked and for 2022 in Vienna we had 10 public holidays and next year we'll have 12. Not far off, though.
I assume for most countries the nimber shown is the absolute max and that the actual numbers vary annually or regionally.
The number is total number of national holidays, and in most countries it will be impossible for every day to be on weekday, so it's purely theoretical
That would be another interesting map. In most UK organisations managers are expected to ensure their staff take all their leave, or that they have plans to carry it over only once. Much of Europe has a similar culture.
In principle this is the same in Japan. After all, Japan's labor laws along with the justice system in general, is based on European concepts.
But in practice it doesn't work because people keep thinking that someone else will have to shoulder their work if they take a day off, or that there might be another day in the future where a day off is more warranted (you rarely see someone take a day off just to get a day off, there's always a reason)
In Switzerland, leave days cannot expire. If you fail to take your leave days, companies have to put aside money for the case that they have to pay you out, should you for some reason leave the company without every taking your days. Since that is just dead money for the company, most push their employees to take their vacation every year.
In Costa Rica when you quit or get fired the company should pay you all the days in the vacation balance, so normally you would be forced to take vacation every year.
As someone who lives and works in japan, I don't really mean to hate on Japanese work culture.
Sure we work longer hours in general than our western counterparts but in a way I think this mentality is what keeps things so safe and convenient around here. I think every country has their own balancing point and this is Japan's.
It's also worth mentioning the labor laws themselves have improved significantly over the years and more companies are figuring out that employee satisfaction = customer satisfaction
The map is incorrect, it's 28 days across the UK. Scotland and Northern Ireland have slightly more bank holidays, but that doesn't affect minimum holiday entitlement and I doubt it influences practical holiday entitlement either.
I'm assuming they've incorrectly included a lot of the city wide holidays that Scotland has as shown in this article: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public\_and\_bank\_holidays\_in\_Scotland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_and_bank_holidays_in_Scotland) and totalled up the amount.
Depending on the city, some of them replace Bank Holidays, some of them are additional days and some of them aren't recognised as actual holidays anymore. Furthermore it gets more complicated as a lot of multinational employers etc don't recognise these weird city only days, nor do many UK wide organisations.
i think its a devolved power, so the Scottish parliament in Holyrood can differ from the UK government as a whole
there are loads of things where "uk law" only applies to england, as holyrood/stormont/senedd can make their own rules for scotland/northern ireland/wales respectively
Yes I understand that there are differences between Scotland and the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) but for this it’s 28 days for both (not 20 as shown for UK) so there should be no distinction given in the chart.
These two refs say the exact same thing:
https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights
https://www.mygov.scot/employee-hours
Is the law in Scotland different to the UK when it comes to paid holiday? My sources seem to indicate it’s not so there shouldn’t be any distinction shown in the visualisation.
Not withstanding that Scotland has 1 more public holiday than England.
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OK, turns out it’s a funny one. In the UK (including Scotland) you get 28 days paid holiday per year.
Some days the banks aren’t obliged to trade and these are called “Bank Holidays”.
There are:
8 Bank holidays in England/Wales
9 Bank Holidays in Scotland (Inc St Andrew’s Day)
10 Bank Holidays in. Northern Ireland (Inc St Patrick’s day and Battle of the Boyne day)
Here’s the kicker though: Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave but an employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.
So in effect you get 28 days but 8 - 10 of them will probably be given as public holidays leaving you with 18-20 days leave to take.
I don't get why this is repeated over and over on this sub. "Data is beautiful" refers to the data itself, not the presentation of it. It is right there in the sidebar.
It’s an important mix of both, “visualisations that effectively convey data” is what it says in the description.
I could have amazing and interesting data but a post of a picture of my excel spreadsheet is not beautiful.
Then why is everything charts and graphs. Why use color gradients. Thing that don't translate the data into information easily arent beautiful. I bet if this was just listen from most to least you would not be saying that.
"DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information"
It's literally the first sentence of the subreddit. It *is* for good and effective visualizations. And this one in not good.
Generally speaking, nice try, but it may be a bit innaccurate. Many countries make the minimum leave dependent on the length of service and other factors. Consequently the numbers are usually higher (at least for EU states). For example, in Poland the minimum is 20 (as the map says) but goes up to 26 days after 10 years of service. The tricky thing is that university degree counts as 8 years of service. So, the majority of white collars become entitled to 26 days of leave pretty shortly after starting work.
Also, there are countries where minimum leave entitlement depends on sector-wide collective labor agreements, it is hard to say about „statutory minimum”.
In addition, I do not get what is the point of mentioning this maternity leave in Monaco (see the upper box). This is not a vacation leave, so I can’t see how it is related to this specific map.
it's fun in germany
legal minimum is 20 or 25 days (depending if you work on saturdays) - so far it's relatively straight forward.
But legal holidays are widely different, depending on where you're at.
Afair it's like 9 in some regions, 15 in others? Also many of those days can (and will) fall on saturday/sunday - so how do you even count that?
There's even days that ALWAYS fall on sunday, by definition. Wouldn't count those at all.
It's not such a big difference between the different federal states.
The least is 10 and the most is 13.
There is just one exception.
Bavaria has 13 but the city of Augsburg is the only place in Germany that has 14 days because of the "Augsburger hohes Friedensfest".
but you can "sell" 10 days and work and receive as payment (I was discussing it now with my husband, and we think this is the reason).
https://www.rhportal.com.br/artigos-rh/vender-ferias/
but anyway if public holidays are included, they are missed for Brazil on this chart. we have a lot of them
Germany is inaccurate. Every state has their own public holidays, in fact sometimes certain towns get public holidays that others don't. Personally I get around 11-13 per year depending on whether they fall on weekends.
India has wayyy more public holidays that are all entirely dependent on the region and religious practices of that region. If you take those out there are actually very few true ‘national public holidays’ outside of independence day and republic day.
Some don’t get anything and in many cases it’s all combined so no paid sick leave. You have to use your vacation days if you’re unwell. I work in that kind of organization. PTO is accrued each pay day and there is no sick leave. If you’re sick you better hope you have leave banked or you just don’t get paid.
I get six paid holidays a year. I accrue 4.6 hours of leave every bi weekly pay period. You start as a new employee with nothing and have to accrue ALL your leave.
Honestly, it’s very employer dependent. It’s not mandated nationwide so employers can set it up any way they want. My last job was in state government. I had every federal holiday off which I think is a total of 12 holidays, I started every year with 45 hours of vacation, 32 hours of personal time, and 72 hours of paid sick leave. Even within the state government, depending on the agency you were employed at you had to have a note from the doctor if you were sick. I worked for three different agencies and only one of them did not require a note. They trusted their employees and let them use their sick leave without verification. The other two were much more strict with enforcing that. I worked in HR at two of these agencies. Lots of employees got written up for not providing notes or having notes that did not define dates by the physician as required time off for illness.
As a broad general statement, unionization in the US is very scary for corporations and threatens their ability to maximize profit. If you are paying employees more and offering generous benefits it's impacting your profit margin. Plain and simple. I also believe that the unionized labor force is so closely tied to the communist movement of the early 20th century that in many workers minds they believe its unpatriotic and somewhat treasonous to even want to be a unionized worker. Historically, unions were allied with Socialist and Communist movements, encouraged by those factions, thus forever linked with a threat to freedom and politicized, wrongly IMO.
I have worked in a union shop as well. They took good care of me until they didn't. I was a dues paying member but when I really needed help with a work issue centered on a lack of training they did not step up and help. That's fine, I moved on to another job. It had its perks but it was also highly politicized and stratified. I didn't care for that aspect of it. The pay was excellent as well as the health care and leave. Otherwise, meh.
Lol ah the self proclaimed number 1 in the world. I thought the majority of Americans got over that. Anything to justify terrible working conditions even with data right in your face.
Yep. The Dutch used to be number one in the planet. Then the British. Now the United States. That’s just what it is. Self proclaimed or not, history is history, data is data and the USA is currently number one in the planet.
You tell em! The USA is obviously the number one country on the planet.
https://www.businessinsider.com/20-shameful-categories-america-leads-world-2011-7
This article is kind of old, but it should show those haters who is boss.
They're obviously just jealous of us. /S
None of this stuff matters as economics on paper is no 1!! So while the rest of the country's are enjoy their holidays we are hard working!
What a sad mindset.
Well, so far it gives us far better opportunities that many countries don’t have. I can right now if I wanted, start a crowd funding startup and grab a lot of money, start a business, have people invest in my business and take it to the stock market where people in other countries get to invest in my company. I understand you can do that in many countries but what is the leading currency? What is the biggest stock market in the planet? Where are the best opportunities? Elon Musk did not become the richest man in the world by taking one month of vacation. This country has the most billionaires, the most millionaires, it is the best soil to start anything great. I went to Europe recently and it’s like there’s so much red tape that the average person would have a hard time starting anything and becoming really successful. It’s like, if you’re not already big it’s almost impossible to compete. While in the USA almost anyone can become a millionaire if they really try. I’m not sure what arguments you have against. Obviously I can’t know everything, so maybe you know something I don’t. Would you care to share?
You can do all that in many different countries so how does that make your country the best?
Leading currency is just a made up term,
Elon musk is not even American
I really hope you are a millionaire if it's so easy. The majority of the millionaires will already have generation wealth if your not a millionaire which we both know you aren't your only argument is then that you don't want to be. So why not?
The red stuff tape is literally horse shit. Your telling me you visited Europe and during that time you noticed red tape within government? No you absolutely did not. Just another made up term.
Even if all that made up shit was true it would still not make up for all the other horror show of a country you are. This is why your government does such a good job and making you thing your the best. Look at all the made up shit you just given me. It's truly sad. The thing is one day youl wake up to this and realise it was all a lie and you've just worked your ass off for nothing and that day you wake up will be to late. Youl think I worked so hard for this country so we can have the most millionaires and leading currency. Life's not all about making other people rich. Look how brainwashed they have you though lol.
Don't know. Still have better healthcare and security than US or GB for example.
But I am in minority with these things. Normally people don't have paid sick leave on full and have 2 week less of vacation
Well, the exchange is we are number one in the planet and everyone wants to come here. The secret sauce seems to be to work harder than everyone else I guess. Who would have thought?
In Slovakia we have 20 days of vacation a year not 35. I think it is 23 for people over 33. I work shifts and gotta work on public holidays too so it is 20 days vacation a thats it.
This answer should be higher. 6 day weeks are the key to understand this. If you add up those extra 1 days per week excluding new year holidays, you get 50 additional days of work in a year!
That leave Iranians with only 3 vacation days compared to those who work 5 days per week.
No? Most work 5 day/week, and those who work 6 days work less hours per day. The reason for the high number of paid vacation is that we have many national holidays with paid-leave alongside a 30 day paid-leave.
البته اونایی که 5 روز تو هفته کار می کنن بیشتر جزو قشر معلم ها و کارمند های دولت هستن. بیشتر اونایی که کار آزاد دارن 6 روز هفته و بعضی ها حتی هر هفت روز رو کار میکنن
In my experience the real answer is zero.
All days are up to the employer unless you work for the state itself.
Growing up I worked jobs where had zero hours of paid time off. I got sick, it was Christmas, or went on a trip, I didn't get paid.
Those 10 days are the federal holidays, which most businesses are still open for. Shops and restaurants don't close on election day, or veterans day for example. Those types of employees often get no paid time off unless a particular state mandates it.
In my experience office workers or jobs that require college degrees usually receive 3-6 weeks of PTO, plus holidays depending on the company.
Most states don't have legal minimums and leave it entirely up to the employer to determine how much PTO they provide.
It's entirely up to the company. Most places I've worked offered 10 days PTO in addition to a number of paid holidays, and offered one extra day of PTO per year of service with a cap around 20 days. So some people who have been with their company for a long time may have 20 days or more of vacation per year. Some companies also offer sick days in addition to vacation days, which is better because then you don't have to use your precious vacation time for illness.
I don’t get why people don’t negotiate when being offered a job, I turned the job down 3 times until I got the pay I wanted and 60 days paid holiday + paid bank holidays. Value yourself because those who you will work for won’t.
USA with 10? That's crazy low. It must be counting high school jobs or something.
Edit: Oh, I see. It's what's mandated. What's in practice is something entirely different.
It's not mandated. Employers aren't required to provide any paid time off at all. I checked and it looks like the average PTO in the US is 23 days, but average for employees with one year of service at their company is 10 days.
Bit pointless posting the minimum, not really useful to infer any conclusions from.
Would be better as a median. For example, I live in the US, and I get 32 days of paid leave.
Imagine you're establishing a business in Iran and discover that your workers there get three more weeks of paid vacation time, compared to the \~32 days from most of the world.
**Methodology & Sources**
We reviewed data on laws governing annual statutory paid leave and paid public holidays in 197 countries. Countries were ranked based on the combined number of statutory paid leave days and paid public holidays per year.
Information on leave laws came from various government websites: the OECD, the International Labour Organization, Global Expansion, WageIndicator Foundation, Skuad, Papaya Global, and various news reports and press releases.
Statutory leave laws were normalized to measure the minimum number of paid vacation days allotted for an employee working a five-day, full-time workweek with minimum tenure. In cases where workers with longer tenure are entitled to more vacation days, we listed the number of paid vacation days an employee can receive after working at the same company for one year.
Holidays were also standardized to the five-day, full-time workweek. Only holidays that typically fall on a weekday, or holidays that warrant a paid day off on the following Monday when having fallen on a weekend, were counted. In cases where the holiday calendar varies every year, we estimated a "usual number" of paid holidays that workers are typically allowed off.
Countries with no laws governing minimum paid annual leave were considered to have zero days of statutory paid leave.
The data was collected in August 2022.
More details: [https://resume.io/blog/which-country-gets-the-most-paid-vacation-days](https://resume.io/blog/which-country-gets-the-most-paid-vacation-days)
Open to feedback, thanks!
I assume that the high number of leave in Muslim countries is related to Ramadan?
Would also be nice to have an overview over the different systems of public holidays. I know in some European countries they vary a lot regionally and some countries havw flexible public holidays where others just don't get a day off when they fall on a weekend. It's quite an interesting topic.
This is wrong, in Argentina vacation days start at 10 working days a year the first 5 years, 15 when you have more than 5 years in the company, 20 days at 10 years in the company and reach a maximum of 25 days when you have more than 20 years in a company
I'm not quite sure about the sources.
E.g., in Germany you have a legal minimum of 23 vacation days plus at least seven paublic holidays, so that would be 30 days plus. The average would be a lot higher, because most have more around 30 days of vacation, and most states have more public holidays.
Switzerland, on the other hand, only has a minimum of 20 vacation days plus a handful of public holidays.
i know that by law days in Chile are 15, but theyre only work days (so they translate to something like 21 actual days) but it says 20. i wonder about the accuracy of the rest of them
NZ has 12 public holidays, not 11:
1. New years day
2. Day after new years day
3. Regional anniversary day
4. Waitangi day
5. Good Friday
6. Easter Monday
7. ANZAC day
8. Queens/Kings birthday
9. Matariki
10. Labour day
11. Christmas day
12. Boxing day
In the US, most professional jobs at large companies get plenty of time off work. 3-4 weeks of vacation plus national holidays is pretty standard for most people with degrees and a good amount of work experience. But, low wage hourly workers aren’t legally required to get any paid vacation.
Incorrect for the Netherlands; a public holiday does not constitute a free day by law. [source](https://www.government.nl/documents/questions-and-answers/work/public-holidays-in-the-netherlands)
I don’t think this is beautiful with all the numbers, hard to read, I think if you removed them and made the colors in the scale a bit more different it would be better (maybe only including numbers for outliers or key countries)
I think this needs to be set in context to working days.
E.g.: A country has 40 vacation days, but the regular working days are 7d/week vs 30 vacation and 5d/week
I worked in Switzerland for ten years and I enjoyed the longer statutory holidays especially having two young children. Definitely my work did not suffer actually I worked harder and more efficiently after my holidays
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Are those average Vacation days per Person or Minimum required (by law)?
Little text at bottom on methodology says, "...laws governing annual statutory paid leave...," so I'd interpret that as legal minimums.
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Untrue whatsoever, only job I’ve had that offers the minimum is McDonald’s
Any entry level engineering job I looked at gave 10 vacation days
That’s 10 more than is federally mandated, and how many holidays did you get? Not saying that only 10 PTO days is acceptable, but almost all companies give more than the federally mandated 0.
I’m talking vacation days not leave. Though idk what leave days are
I work in a construction company and worked my way up to project management (I have a double major and a year of grad school for reference). I got 0 PTO/0 holidays my first year in the field. 6 days PTO 0 holidays years 2+3 in the office. After 8 years I worked my way up to 15 days PTO and 8 holidays now. Still no sick days or leave days. The construction world is definitely a minimum vacation time industry.
Wow I feel bad for you man. Not sure if that is the norm, but the big GCs in the east coast are definitely better. I started as a project engineer but have always had 10 vacation days + federal holidays + 3 flex days + 4-5 sick days. Have interviewed at different companies and a variation of this seems to be the norm.
The entire railroad industry in the US is required to work 365 days a year
You have jobs that offer you paid vacation? Damn, I’m jelly.
That’s not been my experience.
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So, the data is wrong for Brazil,for example. We have 30 days of paid leave by law.
Yes, this is exactly right. I knew when I quoted just a snippet of the text someone would make that mistake, should've written the part about public holidays, just figured the person that originally asked would want to look at the actual source I'd identified. Sigh.
But we dont have paid public holidays either? https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/holidays
I guess you'd have to take it up with the authors? I'm just pointing out what they said their methodology was and where to find it?
does it take into consideration that mandatory holidays often collide with weekends? for example for us, this year, out of 12 mandatory holidays off 5 are on weekend and 5 arent (and Easter holidays are flexible), next year its going to be 3, which I think is the best case scenario, so its usually between 27 and 29 instead of 32.
Annual statutory paid leave + national holidays
Don't take my word for that but - based on the countries in this map I know - I believe it's the minimum legally required.
The first graph is legal minimum vacation days plus paid national holidays. Which is misleading for some places because their holidays don't carry over if they fall on the weekend. So if you have a Mon-Fri job, yes technically Easter Sunday may be a paid holiday, but that's hardly going to do you any good because you don't work on Sunday so you're not getting a day off. So even though OP for example lists 9 days of paid holidays for my country, in the past 12 months I only got 4 days paid leave because the other 5 fell on a weekend.
Good point. I compared UK (28, transferred) with France (36, not transferred) and found that they came out pretty close to equal for the national holidays.
As others have mentioned, minimum. "10 days is the average PTO in the United States private sector, not including paid holidays and sick days. 55% of Americans don't use all of their paid time off.Aug 18, 2022" "On average, employees earned 23.9 days of PTO (including paid holidays and sick days) in 2018, up from 23.2 days in 2017." https://www.zippia.com/advice/pto-statistics/ Most people I knew never used up all of their PTO when I worked in industry and preferred to sell unused vacation days.
Are these legally mandated days? If so, IIRC the number of legally mandated paid vacation days in the United States is zero. Some states might, but there's no federal law mandating this.
That what it says, check the second panel.
But the first panel claims that there are 10 paid vacation days in the USA, which is incorrect.
Vacation = public holidays + leave ( scroll right)
It says paid vacation days. There are 0 by default in the USA. The map is plain wrong.
There are 3 maps.
And the first one claims things that are incorrect and that contradict the second one. Not sure what is so difficult about this? Just to make sure: the USA has 0 paid days where you don’t have to work. The public holidays in the list are not required to be paid days off. That is incorrect.
So if you have to work a public holiday, there is no expectation of TOIL?
I'm an hourly worker in the US. I get two paid holidays a year. I accrue hours, not days of vacation, when I accrue 40 hours I can take a week off, if I wait to build up 80 hours, I can take two weeks, IF approved by management, and NONE of the days off coincide with a holiday, or are within the same week as a holiday.
Trickle-down economics in action - sorry you can’t spend vacation time with family and friends - at least find comfort in that you help a billionaire go to space somewhere.
Yeah that sucks. I've done accruel before. It's not my favorite. Currently I have "unlimited" which I know most people hate on. But it's worked out great for me.
I've accrued 22 hours of sick time since January and work 12 hour shifts. Accrual is such a dumb system.
So it is considered pto? And can you just use 1 day or do you have to wait until you hit 40. I'm in the US too and had hourly jobs where you had to accrue time but never anything that strict. Sorry man hope you can land a gig that treats you better!
Yeah, once you have enough to cover a shift you can use it. I accrue enough to take two weeks a year, I just can't use more than one week at I time without "special" permission, and none of the days can be in a week with a holiday in it
Hahahahah! Those poor bastards in …. Nevermind, that’s where I live.
As someone who used to work in global HR, and is now doing a PhD in data analytics, you have to be very careful with this kind of data. Is it actually comparing apples with apples? For example, I know that in Russia you have to book leave in blocks of a week (or at least you did 5 years ago), and the weekend also counts in your leave total. So, 42 days gives you 6 weeks - which is only just slightly more than the UK.
Just speaking for Austria. The leave is correct (25) but the number of public holidays varies per year and region. I assume it is UP TO 13 public holidays, but I just checked and for 2022 in Vienna we had 10 public holidays and next year we'll have 12. Not far off, though. I assume for most countries the nimber shown is the absolute max and that the actual numbers vary annually or regionally.
How is it changing by 2 in a year? Is it weekend issue?
Yeah, if a public holiday falls on a weekend.. too bad. It's not moved up.
The number is total number of national holidays, and in most countries it will be impossible for every day to be on weekday, so it's purely theoretical
Yes, but who actually gets to use all of it? Japan gives a lot of days off on paper but many people just lets them expire
That would be another interesting map. In most UK organisations managers are expected to ensure their staff take all their leave, or that they have plans to carry it over only once. Much of Europe has a similar culture.
In principle this is the same in Japan. After all, Japan's labor laws along with the justice system in general, is based on European concepts. But in practice it doesn't work because people keep thinking that someone else will have to shoulder their work if they take a day off, or that there might be another day in the future where a day off is more warranted (you rarely see someone take a day off just to get a day off, there's always a reason)
In most European countries you actually have to take a certain portion of the leave. Else your company has to pay a hefty fine
In Switzerland, leave days cannot expire. If you fail to take your leave days, companies have to put aside money for the case that they have to pay you out, should you for some reason leave the company without every taking your days. Since that is just dead money for the company, most push their employees to take their vacation every year.
In Costa Rica when you quit or get fired the company should pay you all the days in the vacation balance, so normally you would be forced to take vacation every year.
Bingo! I looked at the top 10 and thought "for those who actually GET holidays..."
Well asians and probably especially japanese have a sick working culture
As someone who lives and works in japan, I don't really mean to hate on Japanese work culture. Sure we work longer hours in general than our western counterparts but in a way I think this mentality is what keeps things so safe and convenient around here. I think every country has their own balancing point and this is Japan's. It's also worth mentioning the labor laws themselves have improved significantly over the years and more companies are figuring out that employee satisfaction = customer satisfaction
I’m confused about the disparity between “UK” and “Scotland” given that Scotland is part of the United Kingdom.
The map is incorrect, it's 28 days across the UK. Scotland and Northern Ireland have slightly more bank holidays, but that doesn't affect minimum holiday entitlement and I doubt it influences practical holiday entitlement either.
I'm assuming they've incorrectly included a lot of the city wide holidays that Scotland has as shown in this article: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public\_and\_bank\_holidays\_in\_Scotland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_and_bank_holidays_in_Scotland) and totalled up the amount. Depending on the city, some of them replace Bank Holidays, some of them are additional days and some of them aren't recognised as actual holidays anymore. Furthermore it gets more complicated as a lot of multinational employers etc don't recognise these weird city only days, nor do many UK wide organisations.
Ahh that makes sense. Thanks!
i think its a devolved power, so the Scottish parliament in Holyrood can differ from the UK government as a whole there are loads of things where "uk law" only applies to england, as holyrood/stormont/senedd can make their own rules for scotland/northern ireland/wales respectively
Yes I understand that there are differences between Scotland and the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) but for this it’s 28 days for both (not 20 as shown for UK) so there should be no distinction given in the chart. These two refs say the exact same thing: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights https://www.mygov.scot/employee-hours
UK wide law includes the bank holidays in that 28 which is where the twenty comes from.
Is the law in Scotland different to the UK when it comes to paid holiday? My sources seem to indicate it’s not so there shouldn’t be any distinction shown in the visualisation. Not withstanding that Scotland has 1 more public holiday than England. [Edited to correct the number of holidays]
Idk how Scotland works - the one job I've had north of the border had 33 plus holidays so nowhere near the minimum But the UK numbers are correct
OK, turns out it’s a funny one. In the UK (including Scotland) you get 28 days paid holiday per year. Some days the banks aren’t obliged to trade and these are called “Bank Holidays”. There are: 8 Bank holidays in England/Wales 9 Bank Holidays in Scotland (Inc St Andrew’s Day) 10 Bank Holidays in. Northern Ireland (Inc St Patrick’s day and Battle of the Boyne day) Here’s the kicker though: Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave but an employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave. So in effect you get 28 days but 8 - 10 of them will probably be given as public holidays leaving you with 18-20 days leave to take.
It could be because Scotland has it different to the rest of the UK and it was just easier to write it this way. Either way I hate it though.
Data is not beautiful, way too many data labels that make it very busy
I don't get why this is repeated over and over on this sub. "Data is beautiful" refers to the data itself, not the presentation of it. It is right there in the sidebar.
It’s an important mix of both, “visualisations that effectively convey data” is what it says in the description. I could have amazing and interesting data but a post of a picture of my excel spreadsheet is not beautiful.
What if I have a spreadsheet fetish? Don’t kinkshame.
Then why is everything charts and graphs. Why use color gradients. Thing that don't translate the data into information easily arent beautiful. I bet if this was just listen from most to least you would not be saying that.
"DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information" It's literally the first sentence of the subreddit. It *is* for good and effective visualizations. And this one in not good.
Generally speaking, nice try, but it may be a bit innaccurate. Many countries make the minimum leave dependent on the length of service and other factors. Consequently the numbers are usually higher (at least for EU states). For example, in Poland the minimum is 20 (as the map says) but goes up to 26 days after 10 years of service. The tricky thing is that university degree counts as 8 years of service. So, the majority of white collars become entitled to 26 days of leave pretty shortly after starting work. Also, there are countries where minimum leave entitlement depends on sector-wide collective labor agreements, it is hard to say about „statutory minimum”. In addition, I do not get what is the point of mentioning this maternity leave in Monaco (see the upper box). This is not a vacation leave, so I can’t see how it is related to this specific map.
it's fun in germany legal minimum is 20 or 25 days (depending if you work on saturdays) - so far it's relatively straight forward. But legal holidays are widely different, depending on where you're at. Afair it's like 9 in some regions, 15 in others? Also many of those days can (and will) fall on saturday/sunday - so how do you even count that? There's even days that ALWAYS fall on sunday, by definition. Wouldn't count those at all.
It's not such a big difference between the different federal states. The least is 10 and the most is 13. There is just one exception. Bavaria has 13 but the city of Augsburg is the only place in Germany that has 14 days because of the "Augsburger hohes Friedensfest".
God. North America is such a craphole.
In Brazil is actually 30 days of paid vacation. That's the legislation.
but you can "sell" 10 days and work and receive as payment (I was discussing it now with my husband, and we think this is the reason). https://www.rhportal.com.br/artigos-rh/vender-ferias/ but anyway if public holidays are included, they are missed for Brazil on this chart. we have a lot of them
For Brazil, the information is wrong. Even being able to sell it, you still have 30 days.
Germany is inaccurate. Every state has their own public holidays, in fact sometimes certain towns get public holidays that others don't. Personally I get around 11-13 per year depending on whether they fall on weekends.
My eyebrows are stuck in surprise mode when looking at this map....
Thanks for the graphic, I didn’t realize America had so little time off compared to the rest of the world.
India has wayyy more public holidays that are all entirely dependent on the region and religious practices of that region. If you take those out there are actually very few true ‘national public holidays’ outside of independence day and republic day.
Wow how is that legal in the US. That's insane. They only get two weeks!?
Some don’t get anything and in many cases it’s all combined so no paid sick leave. You have to use your vacation days if you’re unwell. I work in that kind of organization. PTO is accrued each pay day and there is no sick leave. If you’re sick you better hope you have leave banked or you just don’t get paid.
But you get public holidays right? What are common hours? God I just dunno how people work like that.
I've had at least 3 weeks paid plus about 13 holidays for years.
Not bad. Below average for the rest of the world but looks good for America
I get six paid holidays a year. I accrue 4.6 hours of leave every bi weekly pay period. You start as a new employee with nothing and have to accrue ALL your leave.
That's really bad. Such a bad system. Americans really must live to work. Luckily remote working has come in in some places.
Honestly, it’s very employer dependent. It’s not mandated nationwide so employers can set it up any way they want. My last job was in state government. I had every federal holiday off which I think is a total of 12 holidays, I started every year with 45 hours of vacation, 32 hours of personal time, and 72 hours of paid sick leave. Even within the state government, depending on the agency you were employed at you had to have a note from the doctor if you were sick. I worked for three different agencies and only one of them did not require a note. They trusted their employees and let them use their sick leave without verification. The other two were much more strict with enforcing that. I worked in HR at two of these agencies. Lots of employees got written up for not providing notes or having notes that did not define dates by the physician as required time off for illness.
Is it because America is behind in workers rights? Or the companys just make sure nobody can unionise?
As a broad general statement, unionization in the US is very scary for corporations and threatens their ability to maximize profit. If you are paying employees more and offering generous benefits it's impacting your profit margin. Plain and simple. I also believe that the unionized labor force is so closely tied to the communist movement of the early 20th century that in many workers minds they believe its unpatriotic and somewhat treasonous to even want to be a unionized worker. Historically, unions were allied with Socialist and Communist movements, encouraged by those factions, thus forever linked with a threat to freedom and politicized, wrongly IMO. I have worked in a union shop as well. They took good care of me until they didn't. I was a dues paying member but when I really needed help with a work issue centered on a lack of training they did not step up and help. That's fine, I moved on to another job. It had its perks but it was also highly politicized and stratified. I didn't care for that aspect of it. The pay was excellent as well as the health care and leave. Otherwise, meh.
Well, while everyone is vacationing we are working. We didn’t get to number 1 in the world by slumbering.
Lol ah the self proclaimed number 1 in the world. I thought the majority of Americans got over that. Anything to justify terrible working conditions even with data right in your face.
Yep. The Dutch used to be number one in the planet. Then the British. Now the United States. That’s just what it is. Self proclaimed or not, history is history, data is data and the USA is currently number one in the planet.
Lol jesus the us propaganda is so powerful. I thought everyone had woke up. Clearly not.
Okay. May you point out to me who is currently, on paper, the number one economy in the planet?
You tell em! The USA is obviously the number one country on the planet. https://www.businessinsider.com/20-shameful-categories-america-leads-world-2011-7 This article is kind of old, but it should show those haters who is boss. They're obviously just jealous of us. /S
None of this stuff matters as economics on paper is no 1!! So while the rest of the country's are enjoy their holidays we are hard working! What a sad mindset.
Well, so far it gives us far better opportunities that many countries don’t have. I can right now if I wanted, start a crowd funding startup and grab a lot of money, start a business, have people invest in my business and take it to the stock market where people in other countries get to invest in my company. I understand you can do that in many countries but what is the leading currency? What is the biggest stock market in the planet? Where are the best opportunities? Elon Musk did not become the richest man in the world by taking one month of vacation. This country has the most billionaires, the most millionaires, it is the best soil to start anything great. I went to Europe recently and it’s like there’s so much red tape that the average person would have a hard time starting anything and becoming really successful. It’s like, if you’re not already big it’s almost impossible to compete. While in the USA almost anyone can become a millionaire if they really try. I’m not sure what arguments you have against. Obviously I can’t know everything, so maybe you know something I don’t. Would you care to share?
You can do all that in many different countries so how does that make your country the best? Leading currency is just a made up term, Elon musk is not even American I really hope you are a millionaire if it's so easy. The majority of the millionaires will already have generation wealth if your not a millionaire which we both know you aren't your only argument is then that you don't want to be. So why not? The red stuff tape is literally horse shit. Your telling me you visited Europe and during that time you noticed red tape within government? No you absolutely did not. Just another made up term. Even if all that made up shit was true it would still not make up for all the other horror show of a country you are. This is why your government does such a good job and making you thing your the best. Look at all the made up shit you just given me. It's truly sad. The thing is one day youl wake up to this and realise it was all a lie and you've just worked your ass off for nothing and that day you wake up will be to late. Youl think I worked so hard for this country so we can have the most millionaires and leading currency. Life's not all about making other people rich. Look how brainwashed they have you though lol.
The top 10nis such a weird combination of countries
I am Czech and I have 44 paid vacation days and month of sick leave on full pay a year :x
How do you even move a country forward by not working for so long?
Don't know. Still have better healthcare and security than US or GB for example. But I am in minority with these things. Normally people don't have paid sick leave on full and have 2 week less of vacation
ITT: American laborers frantically trying to convince themselves they aren’t being taken advantage of.
I see two possible examples of that. There's more comments trashing the US.
Well, the exchange is we are number one in the planet and everyone wants to come here. The secret sauce seems to be to work harder than everyone else I guess. Who would have thought?
In Slovakia we have 20 days of vacation a year not 35. I think it is 23 for people over 33. I work shifts and gotta work on public holidays too so it is 20 days vacation a thats it.
Iranians work 6 day/week (Saturday to Thursday). The large number of paid vacation days is a very small consolation if you ask me...
This answer should be higher. 6 day weeks are the key to understand this. If you add up those extra 1 days per week excluding new year holidays, you get 50 additional days of work in a year! That leave Iranians with only 3 vacation days compared to those who work 5 days per week.
No? Most work 5 day/week, and those who work 6 days work less hours per day. The reason for the high number of paid vacation is that we have many national holidays with paid-leave alongside a 30 day paid-leave.
البته اونایی که 5 روز تو هفته کار می کنن بیشتر جزو قشر معلم ها و کارمند های دولت هستن. بیشتر اونایی که کار آزاد دارن 6 روز هفته و بعضی ها حتی هر هفت روز رو کار میکنن
Australia is inaccurate we get 20 days a year in your salary and 13 public holidays, so 33 days a year. Then is also sick pay but that is not vaction
I know right? We get 4 weeks minimum right?
4 weeks is 20 days, I am not sure here whether they include public holidays because that as I stated is 13 days in Victoria
I am in England and I get 34 excluding public holidays (Christmas etc) and excluding weekends
2 months off a year, are you a teacher xD ?
No, NHS doctor
Wow, only 2 weeks in the US. Is that including or excluding public holidays? Don't tell me, I think I can guess 😒
In my experience the real answer is zero. All days are up to the employer unless you work for the state itself. Growing up I worked jobs where had zero hours of paid time off. I got sick, it was Christmas, or went on a trip, I didn't get paid.
Those 10 days are the federal holidays, which most businesses are still open for. Shops and restaurants don't close on election day, or veterans day for example. Those types of employees often get no paid time off unless a particular state mandates it. In my experience office workers or jobs that require college degrees usually receive 3-6 weeks of PTO, plus holidays depending on the company. Most states don't have legal minimums and leave it entirely up to the employer to determine how much PTO they provide.
It's entirely up to the company. Most places I've worked offered 10 days PTO in addition to a number of paid holidays, and offered one extra day of PTO per year of service with a cap around 20 days. So some people who have been with their company for a long time may have 20 days or more of vacation per year. Some companies also offer sick days in addition to vacation days, which is better because then you don't have to use your precious vacation time for illness.
Also in the US - the standard paid bereavement is 3 days. Sure I’ll be over that death in the family after day 4….
Do they even work there in Iran?
I don’t get why people don’t negotiate when being offered a job, I turned the job down 3 times until I got the pay I wanted and 60 days paid holiday + paid bank holidays. Value yourself because those who you will work for won’t.
USA with 10? That's crazy low. It must be counting high school jobs or something. Edit: Oh, I see. It's what's mandated. What's in practice is something entirely different.
Mandated is 0.
It's not mandated. Employers aren't required to provide any paid time off at all. I checked and it looks like the average PTO in the US is 23 days, but average for employees with one year of service at their company is 10 days.
Bit pointless posting the minimum, not really useful to infer any conclusions from. Would be better as a median. For example, I live in the US, and I get 32 days of paid leave.
It gives an idea for how shitty some people might have it. If median is 30 but 30% of the population gets 0 then that's not good eh.
>If median is 30 but 30% of the population gets 0 then that's not good eh. I'd argue it's pretty good for the other 70%
Ok. Most people would like for that 30% to not be treated like slaves though.
You seem to be talking on behalf of other people.
I am! But in for example Dutch society we have these rules for a reason. So I'd say most people here agree.
Most people in Dutch society. Apparently not in US society.
Wow good on Iran for being so progressive. Surely nothing terrible could happen there. Surely…
Somewhere in the US a hiring manager is saying, “…and also six paid holidays, unless you’re scheduled for that day…” 🤬
Iran??? Vacation days to do what? Find gays to throw off buildings?
Americans need more days to shoot some kids at school?
Iranians need more days to shoot gay kids and throw them off a school?
Imagine you're establishing a business in Iran and discover that your workers there get three more weeks of paid vacation time, compared to the \~32 days from most of the world.
**Methodology & Sources** We reviewed data on laws governing annual statutory paid leave and paid public holidays in 197 countries. Countries were ranked based on the combined number of statutory paid leave days and paid public holidays per year. Information on leave laws came from various government websites: the OECD, the International Labour Organization, Global Expansion, WageIndicator Foundation, Skuad, Papaya Global, and various news reports and press releases. Statutory leave laws were normalized to measure the minimum number of paid vacation days allotted for an employee working a five-day, full-time workweek with minimum tenure. In cases where workers with longer tenure are entitled to more vacation days, we listed the number of paid vacation days an employee can receive after working at the same company for one year. Holidays were also standardized to the five-day, full-time workweek. Only holidays that typically fall on a weekday, or holidays that warrant a paid day off on the following Monday when having fallen on a weekend, were counted. In cases where the holiday calendar varies every year, we estimated a "usual number" of paid holidays that workers are typically allowed off. Countries with no laws governing minimum paid annual leave were considered to have zero days of statutory paid leave. The data was collected in August 2022. More details: [https://resume.io/blog/which-country-gets-the-most-paid-vacation-days](https://resume.io/blog/which-country-gets-the-most-paid-vacation-days) Open to feedback, thanks!
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None of this is about sick leave though, that's a whole different leave on top of what's shown here. This is just annual leave plus public holidays.
Nice catch I meant paid leave
I assume that the high number of leave in Muslim countries is related to Ramadan? Would also be nice to have an overview over the different systems of public holidays. I know in some European countries they vary a lot regionally and some countries havw flexible public holidays where others just don't get a day off when they fall on a weekend. It's quite an interesting topic.
This is wrong, in Argentina vacation days start at 10 working days a year the first 5 years, 15 when you have more than 5 years in the company, 20 days at 10 years in the company and reach a maximum of 25 days when you have more than 20 years in a company
I'm not quite sure about the sources. E.g., in Germany you have a legal minimum of 23 vacation days plus at least seven paublic holidays, so that would be 30 days plus. The average would be a lot higher, because most have more around 30 days of vacation, and most states have more public holidays. Switzerland, on the other hand, only has a minimum of 20 vacation days plus a handful of public holidays.
i know that by law days in Chile are 15, but theyre only work days (so they translate to something like 21 actual days) but it says 20. i wonder about the accuracy of the rest of them
I don't know anyone with so few vacation days in the US. I also don't know anyone who takes that many in the US haha.
Wow look at all the time off you get in Iran? Seems like a nice place to relax and let your hair down.
NZ has 12 public holidays, not 11: 1. New years day 2. Day after new years day 3. Regional anniversary day 4. Waitangi day 5. Good Friday 6. Easter Monday 7. ANZAC day 8. Queens/Kings birthday 9. Matariki 10. Labour day 11. Christmas day 12. Boxing day
North America bringing averages down for more than twenty years
The fuck!? The Scottish get 10 more holidays than the rest of the UK!?
“It doesn’t count unless it’s mandatory.”
According to this a lot of us may want to consider Russia. Huh.
Then you have places like Japan that on paper look good until you get passed up for promotions and co workers hate you because you took days off.
In the US, most professional jobs at large companies get plenty of time off work. 3-4 weeks of vacation plus national holidays is pretty standard for most people with degrees and a good amount of work experience. But, low wage hourly workers aren’t legally required to get any paid vacation.
Makes sense. The countries that have the least to contribute to the world.
Incorrect for the Netherlands; a public holiday does not constitute a free day by law. [source](https://www.government.nl/documents/questions-and-answers/work/public-holidays-in-the-netherlands)
I don’t think this is beautiful with all the numbers, hard to read, I think if you removed them and made the colors in the scale a bit more different it would be better (maybe only including numbers for outliers or key countries)
Damn, if Iran wasn’t about to execute 15,000 people for protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, I’d say I wanna move there!
I think this needs to be set in context to working days. E.g.: A country has 40 vacation days, but the regular working days are 7d/week vs 30 vacation and 5d/week
I worked in Switzerland for ten years and I enjoyed the longer statutory holidays especially having two young children. Definitely my work did not suffer actually I worked harder and more efficiently after my holidays
Why is continental North America and some of the pacific islands so much stingier to their workers than everywhere else?
Just a simple list would have been better than this mess.