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USA, self employed so 0 hours PTO but also don't have to deal with an HR department to take time off.

I work for a US company but my contract is governed by Canadian and Ontario labour laws. The company offers unlimited time off but that's illegal in Canada so we have unlimited time off minimum four weeks. We take as much time off as we want as long as our job gets done.

UK. 30 days plus Bank Holidays as paid leave. Also, we have a flexible working system where we can work additional hours to accrue up to five days' leave. Longest continuous period I've taken off was three weeks. It's also WFH four days a week.

When I was applying for this job I was offered - and accepted - a job at an American company which paid a few thousand more but didn't do flexi hours or WFH. It actually felt pretty good letting them know I wouldn't be starting and why.

Czechia. I get 20 days off mandated from the state, plus some (12-ish?) public holidays, plus every day I donate blood (that's up to 5 days a year).

My job gives me 5 extra vacation days, and when I'm on sick leave, pays me the full 100 % of my salary.

I take vacations for as long as I need :) But mostly I try to chip away at my supply with one- or two-day vacations, usually around weekends and/or combined with public holidays. I am obligated to take vacation at the end of the year, and I always take 3-4 days for a yearly local metal festival.

In the UK, for a university. 26 days + 8 days bank holidays. I've been offered the chance of 'buying' an extra 10 days (salary sacrifice, spread over the year), I might go for it.

USA, 2 weeks/year but they don't expire and I can roll them over if I want to.

I usually vacation for 3 weeks at a time, it's a good amount of time to spend on one place I've never been and see a bunch.

Canada, 6 weeks plus 1-2 weeks during xmas closure plus unlimited sick days

US, in theory, unlimited PTO, but here's the problem in the US...

PTO is up to your employer, and while my employer is very generous, my wife's is not.

So I can't really take a holiday. I'd LIKE to, I have time available to take, and places I'd like to go, but it's not like I can tell my wife "Sucks you have to work, anyway, going to Vegas! See you next week!"

US. 30 days per year, plus all federal holidays and a handful of extra days. Also unlimited sick leave with supervisor approval.

Edit: Missed the other part of your question. I usually take a week here or there, but try to take at least one stretch of 2-3+ weeks every year.

US and I get I think six weeks a year off.

It's been a while since I did the math to figure how much I get but I think it was about six. I can take it more or less when I want. The only exceptions are around winter holiday time. That can get a little tricky, but other wise I can basically take off when I want.

Most of my time off is a day here or there. Rarely do I take a real vacation.

France - never got some since i always was in internship/short/seasonal contracts. I have huge free time in unemployment periods though, and some are 'paid' by social aids, around 1 week each month if i worked the previous one. The legal basis is 30 days otherwise.

Japan gives me 20 days a year, can bank up to 40. Plus public holidays

Germany

I've been off work for three or four years now. Long Covid is a bitch. The paperwork was monstrous but now me and my wife get paid by a combination of the state's pension, health insurance so my wife gets paid for caring for me and my unable-to-work (can't think of the proper name) insurance.

But usually I'd get 26 to 30 vacation days per year.

USA. 3 weeks vacation max out at 4, 1 week sick time, 1 week "personal time". 10 holidays but we are running 24/7 so if you are scheduled to work you get time and a half those days plus 8 hours of extra pay. You get paid out any sick/personal time you don't use but vacation days no longer roll over. I liked saving up 2 years of vacation and fucking off for two months.

USA. I accumulate an hour of PTO for every 40 hours I work, up to a maximum of 40 hours a year. I have to use it pretty sparingly.

The Greatest Country On Earth, Pennsylvania.

40 hours

US, self employed (HVAC, family business) so if we don't work, the business (and by extension, us) don't make any money. That being said, we set our own schedule, so if we want to take time off, we can.

Norway: 25 working days. And the pay is 12% of whatever you earned the previous year.

On top of that there are the public holidays. 2025 list, lazy copypasta:

1 Jan Wed New Year's Day
17 Apr Thu Maundy Thursday
18 Apr Fri Good Friday
20 Apr Sun Easter Sunday
21 Apr Mon Easter Monday
1 May Thu Labour Day
17 May Sat Constitution Day
29 May Thu Ascension Day
8 Jun Sun Whit Sunday
9 Jun Mon Whit Monday
25 Dec Thu Christmas Day
26 Dec Fri 2nd Day of Christmas

Spain

Vacation: 30 natural days or if your employer is ok with you picking and choosing days here and there, 22 working days.

Holidays: around 14, or 15 between national, regional and local holidays.

Edit: depending on what collective labor agreement your job falls into you may have some more vacation days because upper limits to the number of working days in a year, I'm not sure how that works but I end up having an extra week each year.

I live in Australia but working remotely for a US tech company.

• Unlimited PTO (company policy) that my boss encourages to take. If I take less than 4 weeks then I get paid (Australian policy)
• Unlimited sick days
• 16 weeks maternity leave at full pay (company policy), or 24 weeks at national minimum wage (~AUD 185/day) for Australian policy. Up to 12 months unpaid

I usually take 6-8 weeks a year of PTO and for maternity leave I’ll take the 16 weeks paid, and 8 extra weeks unpaid/minimum wage (depending on my spouse’s situation)

20 days pto plus around 8 paid holidays that are set days.

Union job, America.

Poland - 0 as I have trash grey market contract.