Paid vacations: number of days by service requirement Standard Errors

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Paid vacations: number of days by service requirement Standard Errors

Table 36. Standard errors for paid vacations: Number of annual days by service requirement,1 State and local government workers, National Compensation Survey, March 2010
Characteristics	Paid vacations days by length of service2						Mean number of days	Median number of days
Characteristics	Less than 5 days	5 to 9 days	10 to 14 days	15 to 19 days	20 to 24 days	Greater than 24 days	Mean number of days	Median number of days
After 1 year
All workers	1.0	0.8	1.3	1.6	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.0
Full time	1.0	0.8	1.3	1.7	1.0	0.2	0.2	0.0
Part time	�	2.8	4.3	2.1	2.3	�	0.3	0.1
Union	0.6	1.2	1.6	1.1	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.5
Nonunion	1.7	0.9	2.1	2.7	1.6	0.3	0.3	0.0
1 to 99 workers	1.7	2.4	3.2	2.0	�	�	0.3	0.6
1 to 49 workers	�	3.7	4.5	2.3	1.6	�	0.5	0.3
50 to 99 workers	2.1	2.9	4.5	4.0	1.2	�	0.3	0.7
100 workers or more	1.0	0.9	1.4	1.7	1.1	0.2	0.2	0.0
100 to 499 workers	1.3	2.1	2.3	2.0	1.2	0.3	0.3	1.1
500 workers or more	1.2	0.9	1.5	1.9	1.2	0.3	0.2	0.0
After 5 years
All workers	0.5	0.5	1.3	1.2	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.0
Full time	0.5	0.5	1.4	1.3	1.8	0.4	0.2	0.0
Part time	�	2.1	4.7	3.7	1.4	�	0.4	1.4
Union	0.3	1.1	1.3	1.6	0.7	0.6	0.1	0.0
Nonunion	0.9	0.4	1.9	1.9	2.9	0.5	0.3	0.0
1 to 99 workers	1.0	1.2	2.6	3.3	1.2	0.9	0.3	0.0
1 to 49 workers	�	1.2	3.8	4.5	1.9	�	0.4	0.0
50 to 99 workers	�	2.6	4.0	4.3	1.2	�	0.4	0.0
100 workers or more	0.6	0.5	1.4	1.4	1.9	0.5	0.2	0.0
100 to 499 workers	0.5	0.8	2.3	2.5	1.8	0.8	0.2	0.0
500 workers or more	0.7	0.7	1.6	1.5	2.2	0.6	0.2	0.0
After 10 years
All workers	0.5	0.4	0.8	1.6	1.5	0.6	0.2	0.0
Full time	0.5	0.4	0.8	1.6	1.6	0.6	0.2	[3]
Part time	�	1.5	2.1	4.6	2.7	�	0.5	0.4
Union	0.3	0.8	0.6	1.7	1.2	0.8	0.1	0.0
Nonunion	0.9	0.3	1.3	2.4	2.4	0.8	0.3	[3]
1 to 99 workers	1.0	0.7	1.9	3.0	2.4	1.1	0.3	1.3
1 to 49 workers	�	�	2.7	4.1	3.4	1.4	0.5	1.2
50 to 99 workers	�	�	2.8	4.9	3.0	1.9	0.4	1.3
100 workers or more	0.6	0.4	0.8	1.7	1.6	0.7	0.2	[3]
100 to 499 workers	�	�	1.9	3.1	2.1	1.2	0.3	0.0
500 workers or more	0.7	0.5	0.8	2.0	2.0	0.8	0.2	0.2
After 20 years
All workers	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.9	1.7	1.5	0.2	0.0
Full time	0.5	0.4	0.6	1.0	1.8	1.6	0.2	0.1
Part time	�	�	1.8	3.0	4.9	2.8	0.5	0.9
Union	0.1	0.8	0.4	0.8	2.3	1.9	0.2	0.7
Nonunion	0.9	0.2	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.3	0.3	0.5
1 to 99 workers	�	�	2.0	2.2	3.3	3.3	0.4	0.3
1 to 49 workers	�	�	2.8	3.0	4.1	3.6	0.6	0.3
50 to 99 workers	�	�	2.7	3.4	5.4	5.5	0.5	0.8
100 workers or more	0.6	0.4	0.5	1.0	2.0	1.7	0.2	0.2
100 to 499 workers	�	�	1.5	2.1	2.7	2.3	0.3	0.4
500 workers or more	0.7	0.5	0.5	1.3	2.3	1.8	0.2	0.6
Footnotes:
1Employees either are granted a specific number of days after completion of the indicated length of service or accrue days during the next 12-month period. The total number of days is assumed to be available for use immediately upon completion of the service interval. Periods of service are chosen arbitrarily and do not necessarily reflect individual provisions for progression. Fractional vacation amounts were rounded to the nearest full number of days. 2Employees eligible for paid vacations but who have not fulfilled the minimum service requirement are included as receiving 0 days. Estimates include plans that are exclusively for paid vacation and vacation plans that are part of a consolidated leave plan that provides a single amount of time-off for workers to use for multiple purposes. 3Less than 0.05. NOTE: Dash indicates no workers in this category or data did not meet publication criteria. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms" at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20092010.htm.