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Canada - Four weeks vacation. Five and a half years with the company.

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.

Australia: 20 days PTO by law, 13 public holidays (depends on the state, but no less than 10 which are national), 10 separate days for use when sick or caring for someone who is sick. There's more entitlements for different scenarios but this is pretty much the baseline.

Switzerland - 20 days is the legal limit, but we get 30 with one week around Christmas + New Year's Eve being mandatory.

I also got a special perk where I work 90% but due to a limitation of our system where we enter PTO, every Friday I take off doesn't count against my PTO budget (rather than only every second Friday). I have not told anyone.

Finland - and zero days, since I’m self-employed. On the other hand, I can take a day (or even a week) off whenever I feel like it, and I only need to work about three days a week to cover my living expenses.

At my previous job, I used to get somewhere between 30 to 40 days of paid time off per year. It varied depending on the year and how many public holidays landed on weekdays.

USA. 4 weeks. Gotta love a good union!!!

UK here. I get 30 days paid leave a year, and will have 2 or 3 weeks away on vacation throughout the year and use the rest of the days for just chilling.

My employer will literally hassle me to use all the days, and is not happy if I don't take my full entitlement.

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.

US, unlimited vacation and PTO and the major holidays off. We’re encouraged to take off a minimum of 1wk per quarter. Definitely unique in the states. I work for an extremely large startup. Don’t know how long this vacation plan will last. lol.

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

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.

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.

US. 20 vacation days, 6 personal days, 7 paid holidays.

Longest vacation I've taken has been about 10 days not counting weekends.

Canada. 20 days PTO, 5 PEL, 11 holidays

USA, I usually take a day or two at a time, either when I'm sick or I have a doctor's appointment.
I get 40 hours of PTO per year and both sick and vacation come from the same pool, sick days count as "points" though and you get 3 points in a 6 month period, exceeding that is termination.
Unpaid time off isn't an option until you run out of PTO.

US - unlimited

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.

In the US. I get all federal holidays plus my birthday and a few extra holidays (like an extra day around new years, Thanksgiving and Christmas) plus I get 25 days of paid vacation but no sick days. In 3.5 years I'll get the maximum of 30 days/year.

Our vacation time is tied to years of service.

1 year = one week 1-5 years = two weeks 5-10 years = three weeks 10-20 years= four weeks 20-25 years = five weeks 25+years = six weeks

Of course by "week" I mean 5 days of vacation.

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!"

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.

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.

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.

US

My situation is a little fucked up because I work 12 hour shifts, but PTO is based around 8 hour days because that's what most employees here work and they haven't made any special exemptions for us. These numbers are going to be based around 8 hour days because I don't feel like doing the math

Vacation time- 10 days for new hires, and you get 5 additional days at 5, 13, and 19 years, so assuming I stick around for 19+ years I'll have 25 days. You can carry over up to 15 unused days to the next year

5 personal days, no carryover

Sick days accrue at 1 day per month, so essentially 12, with unlimited carryover,

1 personal holiday

Certain things like perfect attendance, coming in for overtime, etc. can earn you "flex time" which actually is usually awarded in 12 hour increments.

I'm kind of bad at using my PTO. My schedule is kind of wonky and I work less days overall than most people and tend to just slot most of my vacation plans into that. If I plan things right I also only need to take 2 days off to get a whole week, and every other weekend I have a 3 day weekend. I don't tend to take a lot of elaborate vacations, 3 day or less trips are kind of my norm. Every couple years I'll do something a bit more elaborate and take a week or more, but more often my PTO tends to get used for other things besides going on vacation. I have a week coming up that I took off to paint some rooms in my house for example.

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.