Recent conversation with friends has made me realise how much variation there is between professions, and I'm starting to feel a bit hard done by (yes, first world problems I know).
I'd be interested to hear how much folk get, perhaps with a quick note about what you do and for how long. I know some places offer an extra day or two for each few years of service. Mostly interested in 30-something office based engineering type jobs...
Teachers, the self employed and anyone with > 40 days can keep quiet, thanks 😉
I asked this fairly recently:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/how-many-days-of-annual-leave-do-you-get-a-year
Personally I would get 33 days (including bank/public holidays) if I was full time.
But I work compressed-hours so I have Fridays off and get 30.5 days pa - which suits me pretty well.
Software Engineer. Office based. Early 40s. Been there 12 years.
Staff nurse 8 weeks
Actually its 5 weeks leave, 10 days in lieu for public holidays and 1 week long service leave -but as public holidays are normal working days for me I get to take the 10 days when I want
32.5 days,
Combination of seniority and time served, carried over from being ex-civil service into a GOCO role. (same job, different management)
Standard 20 days plus bank holidays.
Last UK full time was about 37 + B Hols and Flexi, was a good place to work.
Currently sort of freelancing though
28 days + 12 flex days + bank holidays and can buy extra if wanted.
Data Analyst jobby.
38.5 including statutory holidays. Ex CS role all carried over in to current role. New starters get 33 days.
Teachers, the self employed and anyone with > 40 days can keep quiet, thank
Pfft! No chamce!
*adopts smug self-employed look*
As many as I bloody well like! I'm seriously thinking of taking the whole of January off and going somewhere hot 😀
Staff nurse 8 weeks
Actually its 5 weeks leave, 10 days in lieu for public holidays and 1 week long service leave -but as public holidays are normal working days for me I get to take the 10 days when I want
I thought all you public sector lot factored in your month a year on the sick? 😛
As many as the boss (Mrs Stern) allows. 8)
Used to get 28days leave and 4 days public holidays (Xmas and new year)
New job. Zero leave.
5 weeks on shift living and working in africa. 5 weeks off shift at home not looking at my emails 🙂
So 6 months off but I get no choice in the times dates.
Front line infantry mech eng in oilfield.
25 plus BH plus option of 5 unpaid
IT distribution.
216 hours.
And we get and use it as hours, as we work different length shifts and can take part days off (police).
30-something office based engineering type here, but on contract - so i tend to estimate my annual income as a weeks wages x 46 weeks.
so 6 weeks off give or take, or 30 days? which seems pretty average. probably take more than that in fairness, but i also take advantage of flexible hours...
25 plus statutory. Can carry five days from one year to the next if I don't use them all.
Very useful, thanks guys.
plus option of 5 unpaid
If you have kids under 18 then you are entitled to ask for unpaid parental leave of up to 4 whole weeks a year, per child.
https://www.gov.uk/parental-leave/entitlement
25 days + BHs + 1 for xmas eve + 1 for long service. Should really be 3 for long service but I had a 6 month sabbatical for a nervous breakdown 7.5 years ago 🙁
If you have kids under 18 then you are entitled to ask for unpaid parental leave of up to 4 whole weeks a year, per child.
I don't. These 5 I don't have to give a reason for.
40 days- 32 contracted, plus 8 extra paid days when the business is shut down (mostly christmas and new year).
These aren't contractual but if they ever tried to change it we'd burn the place to the ground so they might as well be 😆 But since it's not in the contract, they don't promote it at all- you find out once you work here, often when it happens. Nice bonus 🙂
Mostly interested in 30-something office based engineering type jobs...
That's me!
25 days + 8 bank holidays.
No flexitime, no long service bonus. Everyone working full time gets the same.
As we're linked to a factory we have a 1 week shutdown in the summer that comes out of the 25 days, but as my job isn't production linked I can work these if I want/need to and take the days another time.
Contractor so anything between 0 and 260 😆
But in my last job it was 25 + the 8 bank/public holidays, plus you could buy or sell up to 5 days (salary adjusted accordingly). The rules said no carry-over but most managers were flexible on that if you used them up near the start of the year.
The job was number crunching for a very large engineering company.
Early 40s, engineering-type - 24 days plus statutory. Have to take a certain number of xmas and NY when the place shuts down - 3 this year, but depends what day of the week the statutory bank hols fall. So basically, I've got 21 days to do with as I please. I can buy more if I want (up to 10 days).
29 plus bank holidays plus week xmas shutdown. Extra day every year I'm with them. Sod Santa I'm jumping on a plane next week.
Office based Mech eng job here...
We can choose between 3 holiday options depending on how many hours extra a week we want to work.
The max was an extra 5 days over the 25 we were getting.
Or we could stick at 25 (I think) or go for 28 days.
I signed up for the highest extra holiday, as I was working the required extra every week anyway.
So, I get 30 days hol with bank hols on top & have to do 38.25hrs/wk to get that.
In typical engineering fashion, the bloke who sits next to me worked out that the mid-option was best in terms of hours worked/holiday earned so signed up to that......but failed to take into account that he too normally works more than the min required to get the full 5 extra days anyway..... 😆
Work for an IT support company, 20 days + bank holidays, can also take some unpaid (pretty flexable on that)
Not much help but I thought I'd check how many days I had off this year... freelance working on a few different projects. Actually took 42 days so far which was entirely due to deciding I had better things to do that earn a few more quid. Most of which involved riding bikes or doing stuff with the family. I don't really need any more time off this year but @NW
means another 8 as the whole sector shuts down.8 extra paid days when the business is shut down
And @binners
- that's fine as long as you've finished my stuff first 🙂As many as I bloody well like! I'm seriously thinking of taking the whole of January off and going somewhere hot
Software/Firmware engineer
33 days (25 i can choose, may day and the remaining 7 bank holidays rolled into a compulsory xmas holiday).
3 weeks company shutdown (automotive manufacture)
2.5 weeks floating
Bank holidays
Not too shabby really.
Office based engineering tech trainee.
25 days plus bank hols here. FinTec company, doesn't change with service or owt.
NHS laboratory - 33 days (long service entitlement.) I work shifts so if I do a bank holiday I get the hours back. Doing Xmas day this year, then next year Xmas day is the only one i get off in the festive period!
20 days, plus working the odd weekend and bank holiday (not always repaid in TOIL).
Business Systems Analyst, full time.
Office based electrical engineer
25 days plus bank hols.... But only recently. Last 3 years was just 20days plus bank hols.
Never got many days hols in engineering in 25 years. Have friends who work at the open university and they get obscene amounts of holiday.
Reading this im definitely hard done by 😆
30....
....Weeks
25 + bank holidays - mid 30's, office based, management in a recruitment.
18days plus bank hols.
Feel shafted now.
Stupid brexit.
statutory minimum is 28 days inc PH thats due to the EU. Without the EU rules there was no minimum ie many folk had to work a whole year before they got any hols then found they only had 20 days the next year inc PH
As many as I bloody well like!
This...but no pay.
29 days + bank holidays
29 + BH, plus i'm carrying over 7.5 form this year as I didn't get round to taking them due to project commitments, much like the 4 that I carried over form last year.
Frankly, I can't see next year being any quieter than this so i'll be carrying 10+ over at this rate. Wish I could sell them tbh.
Work are pretty flexible and I WFH a lot so tend not to take time off for little things that i want to do.
Offshore hydrographic surveyor; I know I know, you asked for office based engineers but I thought I'd throw it in anyway!
180 days a year off. Usually, but given the downturn I've worked 158 days this year so far. So, lots of time off but no solid rota this year so virtually impossible to plan although we can take 23 days booked holiday so summer holidays etc can be booked. Next year I'll be off Angola on a 6 week on 6 week off rota.
Nine to five would destroy me now. How short are the weekends...?
Still, working Christmas and New Year this year so not all good.
On t'other hand it'll be 200 days off this year by the end 8)
36 days
Bank Holidays
7 days of occasional leave
Whatever we decide to take in flexi-time
11 days every 2nd year with travel back to the old country for staff member and their family.
Its OK, I suppose 🙂
Contractor so zero plus bank hols. Or as many as i can afford to not get paid for. 😐
25 days plus bank holidays as lieu days. Also over a 17 week roster period I get 51 days off.
Makes it possible to have extended periods off for very little leave if you use your leave entitlement smartly. For instance I have been off work since the 28th Nov and go back on the 19th Dec for 7 leave days.
Much better than my last TOC where leave was rostered in week blocks. If your weeks leave fell on a week where you were only in 2 or 3 days you didn't get the other days back.
i get 26 as standard annual leave then add bank holidays and university closures which adds an extra 12 days to give me a grand total of 38 days.
once i get to 10 years of service i get 27 days - only 1 more year to go!
Office based Chartered Engineer.
25 days, plus 8 public holidays (which we can take when we want, they aren't tied down) plus 2 long service days so 35 in total.
Factory shuts for a week between Christmas and New Year, which has to come out of our leave allowance.
Flex days can be accrued on top of that.
28 days + 12 days Flexi + 8 BH - 48 days...I also finish at 12:00 on a Friday.
Come to think of it, based on the above, I only work 3.5 days per week...certainly doesn't feel like it.
Office based (mostly) engineer type, 31 days (made up of 23 basic + 3 days grade allowance in lieu of overtime + 5 days long service) plus bank holidays.
I was was quite happy with how much holiday I got until I met my wife who's a teacher.
15 Weeks, but in reality take around 3-4 weeks a year.
33 days including bank/public holidays
Director of Development (software)
4.5 years in current company
Hoping that the [i]planned[/i] buyout will leave me semi-retired so hoping for 60+ days in the near future!
I had accrued 37 plus BH's but never took them all, ended up selling 10 back..
All changed now though, I'm making my own rules.
University academic.
25 + ~15 bank holidays etc. So 40 total. No time in lieu for many trips away etc. Though we do work flexibly so it averages out...like today, working from my parents place! Academics aren't good at taking all their leave, but I like people not telling me what hours I have to work etc.
"180 days a year off. Usually, but given the downturn I've worked 158 days this year so far. So, lots of time off but no solid rota this year so virtually impossible to plan although we can take 23 days booked holiday so summer holidays etc can be booked. Next year I'll be off Angola on a 6 week on 6 week off rota."
which vessel ?
Im 5-5 out of luanda on and off b32 as of january . same story here .... loadsa time off this year, Not moaning right now as have been getting my basic until recently. Had to move to international contracting to keep working now though.
Electrical biased engineering stuff.
I have 25 plus bank hols. & 1 for ten year service.
We have to use 3 at Christmas too.
Currently employed by a USofA mega corp whose incentive for promotion is adopting new ,lesser terms,including only 20 days leave!! Pish to promotion... I'll just stay here then.
25 + 8BH (Taken whenever I want) + 10 Bought days (effectively unpaid) so 43 days, plus I have taken about a weeks TOIL this year, so 48 days off.
Will probably buy 15 days extra holiday next year.
30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Every other Monday off (flexi hours)
So all in all 56 + BH'S per year.
Business and IT projects related role.
45 days plus public holidays. No fixed hours and not required to be at the office or lab except for, relatively rare, meetings. I am judged on publications, conference papers, Licence (Bachelors) and Master teaching (get paid extra for teaching), Masters/PhD supervision, and winning grants. We work long hours on fieldwork but I enjoy it and I'm simply grateful for the huge flexibility whilst my kids are still school age (not that it'll change when they're older :D).
36 year old French state academic researcher (C.N.R.S. for any that care).
[edit] a lot of colleagues sell back holiday for a few thousand extra €s but I can't be arsed with the admin and think it would be taking the mick a bit...
25 +BH, we also get one extra day holiday after 25 years long service!
Factory production operative
Just go another 15 years to go till I can claim my extra day
300 hours, working shifts some 12 hour, some 8, hence the hours rather than days, it can work well as you can take 44 hours and have 12 days off!
The company I work for previously it could be even better if you planned it correctly you could take 36 hours off to get 12 days off, by accumulating the excess hours over 40 worked each 7 day period.
25 days + bank holidays + option to buy up to 5 additional days that I usually take.
I get 22 days plus bank holidays, but the office is closed for the 3 days between Christmas and New Years. Early 30s, work as a sales/support/feature designer/team leader type person for a small software company.
0... Being self employed I just have days off. This means that holidays cost me double.
The GF had 30 days plus 13 bank holidays. Next year we've got 15 bank holidays.... One of the advantages of living in Catholic Bavaria, they have more days off than anywhere else in Germany....
Office based Engineer here - just gone up to 28 days + bank holidays now I've been here 10 years.
It will top out at 30 days once I've been here 15 years.
Contractor scum so zero paid holiday days (incl bank holidays).
Two weeks on/ two weeks off then an additional seven weeks a year . Marine engineer . Uk ferry industry.
Offshore oil and gas in the North Sea... still lucky enough to be on a 2on/3off rota.
I work that out as 208 days a year off.
Three months 😀
I'm a teacher
25 + 8 bank holidays and all the days between Christmas and the first Monday of the new year for free.
Every Friday off as work a condensed week (35 hrs mon to Thurs).
Feel really lucky to be honest!
I get a pro rata version (19/37ths) of 32 days annual leave and 2 Bank Holidays.
I also get 13 weeks off unpaid. Part time/term time rocks. 3.5 days to go and I finish for Christmas, back on 4th January.
(In the interest of balance, they only pay me 19/37ths of my salary. I can assure you, I get quite a bit more than 19/37ths of a caseload.)
I normally get 301 hours but this year I get an extra 259 hours pre-retirement leave as well.
pre-retirement leave
So you can practice being retired?
Been in current job 6 years (firm is an environmental consultancy).
25 days plus bank holidays (no flexi/time in lieu, and cannot carry over any leave to the next year)
Engineer in Aerospace Industry. 25 statutory days and 8 public holidays.
As an agency driver, probably as much as I want, they won't be paying me...
I believe that changes next year, so I'll see what happens then.
If I've still got a job...
MoreCashThanDash - Member
pre-retirement leave
So you can practice being retired?
Nah.
He keeps shitting himself.
Trail Rat - looking very likely to be Skandi Africa. Not 100% yet but hoping so.
Vessel of the year 2015!
8)
Contractor scum so zero paid holiday days (incl bank holidays).
+1 but I try not to work more than 220 days a year = 8 weeks including public holidays.
Office based Project Engineer here and I get 28 days plus Bank Holidays as well as flexi-time and time off in lieu. Carrying over 16 days to 2017 as I had 10 days from 2015 to use this year.