Vacation and sick accruals: What’s your payout?

Our sick and vacation hours are combined and accrued in a bank we call ETO (earned time off). The average full time employee accrues 10.15 hours per two-week pay period. First year employees accrue a little less; those with 10 years or more accrue a bit more. Whatever’s left at termination is paid out.

Our full-time employees are given 48 hours of sick leave at the beginning of the calendar year. Part-time employees are given the equivalent based on their regular work schedule, i.e., half-time people are given 24 hours. Anything left at the end of the calendar year, or when you terminate, is lost if you are an exempt employee. Exempt employees are not reimbursed for unused sick leave. If you are non-exempt (hourly), you are paid any unused sick leave when you leave or at the end of the calendar year, whichever comes first. Everyone is paid any unused vacation hours upon termination. Unused vacation rolls over from one year to the next except that when you reach a certain number of hours, you stop accruing. This is to encourage people to actually use their vacation hours.

Our sick leave is not paid out upon an employee leaving and they can have as much as 960 hours on the books. Sick time is accrued at 10 hours a month Our vacation, holiday, and comp-time are paid out when someone leaves. Vacation is 80 hours after the first year employed and 120 hours after five years employed.

We get flat out 2 weeks vacation after 90 days & 2 weeks of sick time per year. After 5 years you get another week of vacation, 10 years you get a total of 4 weeks of vacation time. Our sick time can be used for anything-sickness, appointments, family needs, whatever you need off for. I feel very fortunate after reading some of the other comments. When leaving the company, you don’t get paid for vacation or sick, however you get a nice severance package as long as you leave on good terms.

WE PAY OUT ALL VACATION TIME EARNED THROUGH THE LAST PAY PERIOD THEY COMPLETED. THIS IS TIME EARNED AND EMPLOYEES ARE ENTITLED TO IT. SINCE OUR SICK TIME IS TO BE USED STRICTLY FOR ILLNESS AND IS NOT PERSONAL TIME OFF, WE DO NOT PAY THAT OUT.

Non-exempt employees are given 56 hours sick time at the beginning of the year; any hours remaining at the end of the year are paid out if you have 30 or more hours on the books. If you have under 30 hours of sick time remaining, you forfeit those hours. At the beginning of the following year, you start off with 56 again. We pay all accrued vacation when someone leaves the company after they have been employed 6 months.

Our vacation is accrued monthly and is based on years of service as follows: 1 to 6 yrs – 6.67 hours (2 weeks a year), 7 to 14 yrs – 10 hours (3 weeks a year), 15 to 24 yrs – 13.33 hours (4 weeks a year), and 25 plus yrs – 16.67 hours (5 weeks a year)

Sick time accrual is a total of 8 hours per month, but the hours are divided as follows: 6 goes towards sick time and the other 2 goes into the employees Personal Time Bank to be use for whatever purpose they wish.

Part-time employees accumulate a pro-rated share of vacation and sick/personnel time.

Our vacation and sick balances are carried over each year, but we are limited to how much vacation time we can accumulate.

We are not paid out for sick time upon termination. Upon retirement, any unused sick time will be counted as service time in our retirement plan. Vacation time is paid out upon termination.

We have a few different procedures depending on which department you work for. We are a large Medical institution and have budgeting and departments that come from the Medical School side and the Health Systems Nursing side.

If you are a Medical School employee, you accrue vacation monthly starting with your first day on the job. 0-4.9 yrs earns 8 hours a month, 5-7.9 yrs earns 12 hrs a month and 8+ years earns 16 per month with your maximum accrual of 2 yrs times you current accrual. You are also given 120 hrs of Sick time which renews annually on your month of hire. This can be used for personal illness, child care issues/illness, or medical appts. If an employee leaves the institution, they are paid out all unused vacation time, but lose any sick time they may have.

On the Health Center Nursing side, they have gone to PTO (Paid Time Off) which combines their sick and vacation into 1 monthly accrual. 0-4.9 yrs earns 13.33 per month, 5-7.9 earns 17.33 per month and 8+ yrs earns 21.33 per month. This time off is used for all vacation, sick time, appts, etc. If you have time in your bank upon leaving the company, you will get paid out for all hours unused.

We get “X” number of days off per year based on years of service. They can be used for anything from vacation to sick days to doctor appointments etc. The downside is that people are LOATHE to use their vacation days up when they are sick. So we end up working with people who should be home SICK IN BED – then we who take care of ourselves & try to avoid sickos & their germs get to SHARE whatever is going around. I like the old-fashioned method – sick days separate from vacation days.

We have a PTO system and encourage employees to take vacations – relax, refresh. We are able to accrue a maximum of 160 hours (20 days) by the time the employee has been with the company seven years, and unused PTO may be carried over up to the maximum. When a person leaves in good standing and gives two weeks notice, they will be paid for 66% of their PTO accrual (figure about 1/3 of the PTO is for sick days). All this is delineated in the Employee Handbook.