Inspired by the where did you travel in 2004 thread. I noticed a lot of people taking multiple vacations in a year. Just curious how many vacation days do you receive a year? I receive 20 days but we usually do 1 or 2 vacations a year. This still leaves me vacation days to do stuff at home.

DH gets around 7 weeks between vacation, management leave days and floating holidays.

I get 4 weeks paid and then take off as much as I want unpaid.

Utahtea

When working full time, we usually took 10 -12 (5 day) weeks off for continuing education and vacation. I worked part time (26 - 37 weeks a year) 9/94 - 9/03 and I'm now retired.
M

I get 4 weeks paid vacation...but I also only work three-12 hour days a week ( I am a nurse). I can take a week off and not need to use any vacation hours. My husband retired in Jan. of 2003....so we do a lot of traveling.

DH and I receive 15 vacation days each year. Before our daughter was born, we'd take an additional 4 weeks off unpaid each year. We were lucky to take at least 3 or 4 big trips per year back then (Asia, Europe, Hawaii, Caribbean). This year we'll be going to Florida...

luvtravelin2 - 15 paid working days and the usual New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

I used to get Good Friday and a floating personal day but they were taken away starting 2005. The nursing home that I work at is going through some difficult times.

Sandy

365 - Ain't retirement grand?

26 days with the option to buy or sell so that I end up in the 20 (min) to 40 (max) range. This excludes Bank Holidays (I think there are 8 of those altogether a year). I am in the UK.

At my job, the first year you get 5 days vacation, the 2nd-5th year you get 10 days, 5th-15th year you get 15 days, and after 15 years you get 20 days. And friends ask me why I've been at my job so long (13 years)...I'm just dying for that extra week off! If I start a new job, it's back to square one. Nah...

dwooden, you beat me to my post -- phrased word for word the same!

Oh, but did you enjoy that extra day of vacation this year? Three more years till we get 365 days of vacation.

Both DH and I recently relocated and changed jobs, so we only get 2 weeks vacation days per year.

Before he worked 4 day on/4 days off and I worked 3 days on/4 days off. So we were able to travel more than we can now.

I miss those days very much.

DH owns his own business so we have no set number of vacation days. We can take as amany vacations days as we can as long as we keep the business running (we have 10 employees). DH takes about 4 weeks a year off, usually 1 whole week taken off, and then the other days taken off sporadically. In 2004, we took our 1st 2 week trip. The business survived and the employees were still there when we returned so we might try it again in 2005. We have to go to destinations where DH can use a phone if we are gone for more than a day or 2.

Someone remind me again what DH stands for.

I always read it as "Dear Husband" but if that's true - where are there no DW, "Dear Wives" mentioned in posts?

Well there are some similar ones. Don't I see LW for loving wife used here? How about BH for better half, or TB for The boss?

I get 6 weeks, plus lieu time calculated at 1 1/2 hours for every overtime hour worked. I've been at my job for nearly 24 years, which is why the perks are so good. I'm also getting an extra 21 hours (which works out to almost 3 days) as compensation for prep time, because I'm going to be teaching 2 days a week until mid-Feb. So there's a lot of vacation time; the only problem is that my colleagues are entitled to pretty much the same amount of time, and only a few of us can be away from the clinic simultaneously, so planning when to use all these vacation days can sometimes be complicated.

5 weeks vacation and 10 holidays per year.

Patrick - we actually get 365 for the next three years then 366 in 2008 but who's counting?

I work in public education, so I have 6-7 weeks off in the summer (unpaid), plus Christmas, Thanksgiving and Spring Breaks, again all unpaid. My salary is based on 210 working days/year. So basically, I have between 9-10 weeks off/year in which I can travel without being compensated. I do however, receive 5 personal and 10 sick days to use during my 210 working days, plus enough days out of the office for conferences/meetings to feel like a paid vacation

LOL, can't believe I typed 365 when I meant 366.