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Paid vacation benefits available to 77 percent of private-industry workers, March 2014

July 30, 2014

In private industry, 77 percent of employees had access to paid vacation benefits. The percentage of private-industry workers with access to paid vacations has remained unchanged in recent years.

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Access to paid vacation, by occupation, private industry, 2010–2014
Occupation	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
All workers	77%	77%	77%	77%	77%
Service	59	58	56	55	55
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry	66	69	72	68	66
Sales and related	70	69	67	68	68
Transportation and material moving	75	75	75	75	74
Professional and related	83	83	83	84	83
Office and administrative support	86	86	86	86	85
Production	90	90	90	91	91
Installation, maintenance, and repair	90	90	90	91	93
Management, business, and financial	96	96	96	96	96

Access to paid vacations varied significantly by occupation. Paid vacation benefits were available to 55 percent of private-industry workers in service occupations in March 2014. In contrast, over 90 percent of private-industry workers in production occupations, installation, maintenance, and repair occupations, and management, business, and financial occupations received paid vacations.

These data are from the National Compensation Survey – Benefits program. To learn more, see "Employee Benefits in the United States — March 2014" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-14-1348. Employees are considered to have access to a benefit if it is available for their use, regardless of whether they choose to use it.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Paid vacation benefits available to 77 percent of private-industry workers, March 2014 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140730.htm (visited March 11, 2026).

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