Table 4. Average paid holidays and days of paid vacation and paid sick leave, full-time employees, 1997
Table 4. Average paid holidays and days of paid vacation and paid sick leave, full-time
employees in medium and large private establishments, 1997
Professional,
All technical, Clerical Blue-collar
Leave category employees and and sales and service
related employees(2) employees(3)
employees(1)
Paid holidays................... 9.3 9.6 8.8 9.4
Paid vacation days after
specified years of
service:(4)
1 year....................... 9.6 12.4 9.9 7.9
3 years...................... 11.5 13.3 11.4 10.5
5 years...................... 13.8 16.0 14.2 12.4
10 years..................... 16.9 18.9 17.0 15.6
15 years..................... 18.8 20.7 19.4 17.4
20 years..................... 20.3 21.9 20.5 19.2
25 years..................... 21.5 23.1 21.7 20.3
30 years..................... 21.7 23.4 22.0 20.6
Paid sick leave days after
specified years of
service:(4)
1 year....................... 11.2 13.3 10.1 9.9
3 years...................... 13.0 16.1 12.1 10.4
5 years...................... 15.2 19.3 14.5 11.5
10 years..................... 17.6 22.6 17.3 12.6
15 years..................... 18.8 24.7 18.1 13.2
20 years..................... 20.5 27.3 20.2 13.6
25 years..................... 21.1 28.0 20.8 14.1
1 Includes professional, technical, executive, and administrative occupations.
2 Includes clerical, administrative support, and sales occupations.
3 Includes production, craft, repair, laborer, and service occupations.
4 A specific number of days per year granted after completion of the indicated service
or accrued during the next 12-month period.
NOTE: Computed averages exclude days at partial pay and workers in plans that do not
stipulate at least 1 full day.
United States Department of Labor
