[Montiel68]

Hi all,

It’s almost summer time and people are starting to take days off. I just got curious and want to know how many PTO days you get in public vs private.

I know it would vary depending on the place and how long you’ve been working…but mostly interested in days for people with 1 and 2 years of experience.

It’s 15 days reasonable for first years in public/Big 4? What about in industry?

Thanks!

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[Trele6]

I'm in industry.

Each year I get the following on January 1:
20 vacation days
+
2 “flex days” off every month and 2 annual “flex days” = 26 days in total
+
10 holidays
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26 weeks of sick pay (15 weeks paid at 100% and 11 weeks paid at 60%).

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[hasy]

Not enough, 10 days of PTO, you can buy an extra 5, sick days accrued, holidays.

Most holidays you get to leave early too.

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[cpac]

I work in a medium firm beginning my third year in August and I get 20 PTO per year (2 wks vacation, 5 personal days, 5 comp days.)

Working hard...

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[Finally_a_CPA]

That seems reasonable, I think. I get approximately 2 weeks (10 days) but we actually have to earn it. Meaning every pay period, we accrue about 3.5 hrs of PTO. I also get 80 of sick pay which we are automatically given every Jan 1st.

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[Anonymous]

How do you guys do with PTO and utilization? If you take all your time off all at once, doesn't it hurt your utilization?

[livealittle]

We “earn” 10 hours per month of PTO or 120 hours a year or 3 weeks PTO. We used to have seperate vacation and sick pay, but about 2 years ago they rolled into 1 PTO pool of time.

we also get April 16th as a paid holiday, we can take it any day after April 16 of the year, but must use the full 8 hours at a single time.

I can't remember off the top of my head by I think we get 10 paid holidays in addition to what's above

We don't have an official comp time policy, but when someone ends up working extra to get a job done, they are often given a day off the next week without having to use their PTO.

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[Tscape16]

I work in Big four, we get 15 days of vacation, unlimited sick time.

When I worked at a national/regional firm (top 10), we got 12 days of vacation and five sick days. After my second year, I was bumped up to 15 days of vacation.

When I worked industry (six thankfully short months), we had ten days of PTO, which included sick pay time.

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[maverick87]

Smaller local firm.

1st year given 5 vacation days + Holidays. You have to work up your Sick/Personal time (get around 6.3 hours a month). Paid OT 1.5x rate. Throughout the year you can get that paid out or use the comp time as time off. First year I was up to 37 days with the 5 vacation days given. I ended up using 14 days and the rest paid out. I also used some personal/sick time for cutting days short or supplementing with vacation days.

Second year we get paid OT but flat rate 1x. I got up to 30 days off with 10 days vacation given. I have around 50 hours personal/sick time to use. Sick/Personal time rolls over to next year. If I am not busy with an engagement I will clock out early at 3 any day of the week.

No real issues with asking for time off. I know when my engagements are so I usually take off when they are completed.

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[se98]

I work for a large, publicly traded company, upon hire we receive 15 paid days off (sick or vacation) and 11 company holidays. We also have a half day Friday program for the summer, although this gets a little tricky in accounting at month end close. I think my company handles it very fairly though. Every 5th year you receive an additional 5 days PTO, topping out at 30 days. No rollovers of PTO allowed.

Also, not that it impacts me personally, but, my company has a great paid maternity/paternity/adoption time program as well. 16 week maternity, 8 week paternity/adoption.

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[bhunt815]

I work in government accounting. 30 days per year as of now but in a year and a half it goes up to 36.

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[lou]

Big 4 offer indicated 25 days PTO plus 10 holidays…

[Anonymous]

I work in a small town with Big4. First year gets around 15-16 days of PTO, to be used for vacation and sick days. We can also defer cash payment of busy season OT hours and use them for extra leave later

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8.6 hours a pay period, or 28 days. I'm a financial analyst at a gigantic health system.

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[golfball7773]

Private

15 days

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[Bluetoothray]

Big4 firm, 25 days. You earn them for all of the unpaid overtime during busyseason though.

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