PTO Hacks: The Strategy Behind Boosting Your Vacation Time

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Many workers on average get 15 paid vacation days per year. WSJ’s Vanessa Fuhrmans joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how careful planning of your vacation days can result in longer periods of time off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, January 10th.
0:32.4	I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.7	The average American worker who's been with a company for five years gets 15 paid vacation days in a year. But with some careful
0:45.1	planning, those 15 days can feel a lot longer. We have a lot of federal
0:50.6	holidays to play with. If you do it just right, if you don't have to
0:54.2	share any of those days with other colleagues, you could have up to 50 days of
0:59.7	extended break time plotting your vacation days just right.
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