Vacation per Year

[thop]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/US/vacation_030625.html

Personally i'm glad that we europeans seem to be such a bunch of lazy bums 5 days vacation in a year?
I'd be interested to see how much vacation each country has in total when you include the free paid days because of (mostly religious) holidays. Germany has 11-14 of them, depending where you live, in a year.

<table width="450" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bordercolor="#CCCCCC"><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td height="31" colspan="3"><div align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Living to Work: How the U.S. Stacks Up</strong></font></div></td></tr><tr> <td width="118" height="24"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">COUNTRY</font></div></td> <td width="82"><div aign="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">DAYS BY LAW</font></div></td><td width="66"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">AVERAGE</font></div></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sweden</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-35</font></div></td></tr <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Austria</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Denmark</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Germany</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">24</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Italy</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Norway</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">21</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Spain</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">France</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-30</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Switzerland</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-30</font></div></td></tr> <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ireland</font></td> <td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;28**</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Australia</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Finland</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">24</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Netherlands</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Portugal</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">22</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;25**</font></div></td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">United Kingdom </font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Belgium</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;24**</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greece</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">23</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Japan</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">10</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;17.5</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">China</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">15</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">15</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">U.S.</font></td> <td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">0</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;10.2*</font></div></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td height="87" colspan="3"> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Sources:</strong>
European Industrial Relations Observatory, World Tourism Organization; Los Angeles Times<br><strong>* </strong>Bureau of Labor Statistics, paid-leave after three years;<br><strong>** </strong>Economic Policy Institute </font></p></td></tr></table>

[KvHagedorn]

Doesn't really matter. If I had vacation time I couldn't afford to go anywhere anyhow, and have no one to go with, so **** it.

[agallag]

In canada, we get (i think) 9 statutory holidays. Someone tell me if I missed any.

1 Jan - New Years Day
Apr - Good Friday
24 May - Victoria Day
1 Jul - Canada Day
Aug - Civic Holiday
Sep - Labour Day
Oct - Thanksgiving Day
25 Dec - Christmas Day
26 Dec - Boxing Day

Bank and government employees generally get Rememberance Day (our version of veterans day) in november, but that's not a statutory day. Quebec residents get one more, but I don't recall when it is.

On top of that, I personally get 16 vacation days per year, with a bonus 5 more if I take them all between November and April. With 4 more years of service (10 total), I'll get 21 days by default, but with no bonus for taking them in the winter. Confusing eh?

[thop]

Apr - Good Friday

that sounds neat

Dec - Boxing Day

[Sasq]

The Japan one doesn't mention the 14 or so public holidays we get as well.

Most Japanese companies give 20, and most employees take umm about 5. Something to do with 10 years of government inaction over a buggered economy.

Dan

[GuchiGuh]

I have a 5 week holiday now

[Brian Ellis]

I have theoretically 365 or 366 days per year, now that I'm "retired". In practice, you can subtract roughly 365 days from these figures. I've never worked so bloody hard in my life since I retired. In reality, we did take a 16-day break in the Far East last September: what bliss, didn't touch a computer the whole time.

[breezer]

With a ten month old son, you don't get any holidays at all.
I get 29 days a year, though up till last year I only managed to take about 10-15 days.
Now I'm married with a young family, they get priority.

Young Freddie is looking forward to goin got the seaside this year.


Breezer

[CHHAS]

Our very own MURC survey

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41837&highlight=vacation