How much PTO does everyone get?

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Just wondering how much PTO all the full-time nurses get and how many years of service you have? I'm curious about all fields of RN work - hospital, sub-acute, CM, insurance, etc.

I've been at my current insurance company for 2 years and get 19 days a year (that includes vacation/sick/floating holiday).

Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
I haven't accumulated any PTO over the last 2 years I've worked at my employer.

You were prn. PRNs don't get benefits and aren't valid for measuring averages

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Specializes in Case manager, float pool, and more.

New hires get 1 week vacation and same in sick leave. Second year you get 1 and a half week vacation time but remain at 1 week for sick time. After 3 yrs it goes up again a little. By 8 yrs we get 4 weeks vacation and 2 1/2 weeks of sick leave time.

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8 hours per paycheck (thereabout) I'm with the company nearly 3 years, but its the same from date of hire up to 5 years

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Specializes in NICU.

0.092308 hours PTO per hour worked (6.6 hrs avg. for 72 hr pay period). It's an average of 172 hrs/yr (14 days). Maximum PTO bank is 384 hrs for 3-4 yrs exp.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

I get 10 days each year to use if I need to when I'm not off for the week of Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas break, 1 week for spring break, 2 1/2 months for the summer, and Labor Day and Good Friday, and every weekend.:woot:

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Some formula of multiplying hours worked by a percentage to figure hours. The more seniority the higher the percentage used to calculate hours. Max of 240 can be carried and at end of year up to 160 can be carried over.

I've been there for 20+ years and have been maxed out on the PTO accrual formula for quite some time. I always manage to use all my PTO, before my employer changed ownership we had a use it or lose it policy so I'm not used to carrying anything over. Depending on if I work any OT I accrue between 7.5 and 9 hours a pay period plus I get an initial load of 60 hours based on years of service. It works out to be about 33 days a year. We are expected to use our PTO for vacation and sick time. Holiday pay is separate and we have 7 paid holidays so that bumps total paid days to 40.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
PTO at my work is accumulated according to a percentage of work hrs per pay period. The longer a person has worked there, the higher the percentage & faster PTO is earned. When I started, I earned about 5 hrs per pay period. Now, it's usually between 8 to 9 depending on how many hrs I worked. It also rolls over each yr; I have about 190 hrs last I looked.

That sound like the way my employer does it. For new employees working full time, it adds up to about 3.5 weeks per year. For people who have been here 10 years, you max out at a rate that equals about 6 weeks per year. That's in addition to 6 official holidays.

That's more than I need ... and in my job, it's hard to be gone that much as the work just piles up when I am not at work. We used to be able to cash in some of our unused PTO and that was great. I sold my regularly to increase my income. But now we have to take it or lose it -- which means I lose some each year.

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Occupational health....get 10 days off.....used as holidaysor sick......1 can buy another week (40 hrs) The only benefit to that is I can take another week off and get the $$$ I paid for it...back,lol

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8 hours/ 2 weeks for vacation

4 hours/ 2 weeks for sick days

Woot woot to the Feds!

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At the crap-hole job I currently have (for another week), I get a whopping 5 days per year. I had to be employed full-time for a year, then was so graciously gifted those days.

But the kicker is, I can't use more than one day at a time. They will "let" me take a "vacation" using my one PTO day and one unpaid day. So I am limited to a long 4-day weekend and nothing else.

If you're sick, you just don't get paid. Of course Aflac will kick in after 7 days for short-term disability, but a regular sickness or illness screws your paycheck.

It is a privately owned RTC in Texas. I made my one year anniversary in March.

I've been nursing almost 20 years and never had such **** PTO benefits.

Needless to say, I'm looking forward to better benefits with a new company.

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We accrue PTO for every hour we work. So, for each pay period (2 weeks) we accrue 6 hours of PTO if you worked 72 hours.

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Specializes in Med Surg/PCU.

I'm a float nurse, and as such don't accumulate PTO despite being full time and benefitted. But the pay is awesome.

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