Tech PTO Comparison

A comparison of PTO policies in the tech industry.

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🏢 Amazon

Last updated: May 2022.

🇺🇸 Amazon (US)

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/pto-overview-us (US)

🇺🇸 Amazon (California)

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/pto-california-corp (California)

• 0 years: 120 hours (per year)
• 1 - 5 years: 160 hours (per year)
• 6+ years: 200 hours (per year)
• 3 floating days per year in any full year of employment

🏢 Apple

Last updated: May 2022.

If you've worked at Apple for:	You earn this time per paycheck:	Up to this much a year:
Less than 3 years	3.7 hours	12 days
3 years	4.62 hours	15 days
4 years	4.92 hours	16 days
5 years	5.23 hours	17 days
6 years	5.54 hours	18 days
7 years	5.85 hours	19 days
8 years	6.15 hours	20 days
9 years	6.46 hours	21 days
10+ years	6.77 hours	22 days

The company usually shuts down historically between Christmas and New Years. And also the week of Thanksgiving.

🏢 Bloomberg

Last updated: May 2022.

🇺🇸 Bloomberg (US)

• Paid Time Off can be taken in either half or full days. 5 days can be rolled over to the next calendar year

• 20 days per year until 10 years of service

• 23 days per year from 10 to 19 years of service

• 25 days per year after 20 years of service

• Holiday calendar is taken from the NYSE trading holiday calendar

• Guaranteed 11 paid holiday days per year, when there are fewer than 11 non-trading days in the NYSE calendar they are added to that year's leave balance

• Unlimited sick leave, policy states that on the fourth consecutive sick day you must contact the disability administrator (external company) to see if you should switch to short term disability or some other family/medical leave

🏢 Cisco

Last updated: May 2022.

• 20 days of base PTO per year regardless of tenure. Employees are generally forced to take 4-6 of these days during the annual company "shutdown" between Christmas and New Years, however.
• 1 "floating holiday" (nearly indistinguishable from PTO but does not accrue in the same way)
• 10 "Time2Give" days to do volunteer work etc.
• 1 day off for your birthday
• "Emergency Time Off" - to be used for serious illness, bereavement, family emergencies, etc. - is separate from standard PTO and does not have an explicit limit
• 11 standard company holidays + (as of 2022) 4 additional scheduled days off ("days for me")

🏢 Discord

Last updated: May 2022.

• (16) paid holidays each year including a week off for winter holidays.
• (20) vacation days/PTO each year
• (1) birthday day off.
• (2) volunteer days to support a cause or non-profit.
• Flexible Sick Time.

🏢 DoorDash

Last updated: December 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹ with guidance on minimum and maximum number of days. Non-exempt full time employees accrue PTO on an hourly basis and don't quality for the unlimited policy.

🏢 Etsy

Last updated: May 2022.

Also includes 2 floating holidays

🏢 Facebook

Last updated: May 2022.

You accrue 21 days/yr, capped at 31.5 days (both regardless of tenure)

There are also a bunch of PTO-related/adjacent benefits:

• 2 extra "Choice Days" per year, which are pretty much PTO days outside of the accrual process
• 5 "Meta Days" each year (company days off)
• you can use up to 10 days of PTO you haven't accrued yet
• every 5 years you can take a 30-day paid recharge leave

The first two were introduced during the pandemic and I'm not sure whether they'll last long-term, but that's this year's policy, at least.

🏢 Fastly

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

🏢 Google

Last updated: May 2022.

PTO: 1-4 years is 20 days, 5+ is 25, accrual cap is 300 hours

Sick leave is unlimited up to 5 days consecutively before requiring medical leave

You can "borrow" pto you haven't accrued yet up to 5 days.

🏢 Greynoise

Last updated: May 2022.

Unlimited paid time off. To encourage time off from work and ensure overall employee health and wellness, GreyNoise requires each employee to take at least 120 hours of PTO (3 weeks) annually, including at least five consecutive business days

Source: https://jobs.greynoise.io/

🏢 GrowthZone

Last updated: May 2022.

• 0-2 years: 10 days/3.08 hours per fortnightly pay period
• 3-4 years: 15 days/4.62 hours per fortnightly pay period
• 5+ years: 20 days/6.15 hours per fortnightly pay period

No separate sick time. 2 floating holidays per year. No paid maternal or paternal leave.

🏢 GrubHub

Last updated: May 2022.

Parental Leave:

Birthing Parent: 14 weeks (6+8) paid

Non-Birthing Parent: 8 weeks paid

PTO:

Engineering: "Unlimited" PTO¹

Hourly Roles: ???

🏢 Gusto

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

🏢 Kickstarter

Last updated: May 2022.

Approx. 100 employees.

Normally, the vacation policy reads:

Full-time employees may accrue up to twenty-one (21) days (168 hours) of paid vacation/PTO per year. Vacation/PTO days are accrued on a monthly basis at a rate of 1.75 days (12 hours) per month. Part-time employees may accrue vacation/PTO at a rate of two (2) hours for every thirty (30) hours worked.

Kickstarter is presently doing a 4 day work week pilot, during this pilot, the PTO accrual schedule has changed it's text to:

All full-time Kickstarter staff are encouraged to enjoy our PTO / Vacation policy ("PTO" or "Vacation") to travel, pursue personal projects, rest, and relax. We encourage every member of the team to take 16 days of vacation each calendar year. Vacation days are accrued on a monthly basis at a rate of 1.33 days per month.

Because the pilot started during Q2 2022, this year we have 17 days of PTO total.

Additionally, there is a winter break (office closure) during the last week of December.

Vacation days do not roll over from year to year and employees are not eligible to be compensated for unused vacation days upon separation from Kickstarter (unless required by local/state law).

🏢 Instacart

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

🏢 LinkedIn

Last updated: July 2022.

"Unlimited PTO¹. The company refers to it as Discretionary Time Off (DTO).

Two week-long company shutdowns per year.

One Friday per month is an InDay, which employees can use to focus on themselves, the world, or their family.

🏢 Microsoft

Last updated: May 2022.

🇺🇸 Microsoft (US)

Vacation accrual schedule for full-time salaried employees
Years of service	Vacation grant rate* (per pay period x 24)	Maximum annual vacation granted	Maximum carry over grant to next year
0-6 years	5.0 hours	15 days (120 hours)	15 days
7-12 years	6.67 hours	20 days (160 hours)	20 days
13 or more years	8.34 hours	25 days (200 hours)	25 days
Part-time employees' vacation accrual rate and maximum annual vacation are pro-rated based on the percentage of full-time hours worked.

Vacation accrual schedule for full-time hourly employees
Years of service	Vacation grant rate* (per pay period x 26)	Maximum annual vacation granted	Maximum carry over grant to next year
0-6 years	4.62 hours	15 days (120 hours)	15 days
7-12 years	6.16 hours	20 days (160 hours)	20 days
13 or more years	7.7 hours	25 days (200 hours)	25 days
Part-time employees' vacation accrual rate and maximum annual vacation are pro-rated based on the percentage of full-time hours worked.

🇨🇦 Microsoft (CA)

Years of service	Vacation entitlement
New hire	1.5 day for each month of service
1 to 5 years	20 days
6 to 12 years	23 days
13+ and more years	25 days

In addition to regular Vacation Entitlement, all employees are eligible for 2 Floater Days. Provided that employees have sufficient personal days remaining, they are welcome to use that day for observance of days which are not official statutory holidays. Unused Floater Days cannot be carried over to the next calendar year and will be forfeited.

You can carry-forward 5 days to the next calendar year. They are forfeited if not used by December 31 of that following year.

🏢 Netflix

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

🏢 OPM (e.g. 18F, USDS)

Last updated: May 2022.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/annual-leave/

Starting PTO is 13 days

🏢 Notion

Last updated: May 2023.

"Unlimited" PTO¹, 10+ holidays, and 4 months parental leave for any parent (birthing, non-birthing biological, adoptive, and foster parents).

🏢 PagerDuty

Last updated: April 2022.

15 days of PTO in your first year and you are required to use 5 of them for the "company shutdown" at the end of December.

🏢 Pokemon Company International

Last updated: May 2022.

2022 Paid Holidays

TPCi observes the following paid holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Friday prior to Memorial Day and Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the day after Thanksgiving. In addition, TPCi observes a holiday week at the end of the calendar year. In addition, TPCi provides two (2) paid days for floating holidays per calendar year.

Paid Time Off

TPCi encourages its employees to take time away from the business to recharge! Our current accrual schedule is as follows:

Years of Service	Accrual Rate Per Bi‐Weekly Pay Period	Annual # of Days Accrued	Maximum # of Days Accrued
0 to 3.99 years of service (Years 1, 2, 3)	0.77 Days (6.15 hours)	20	40
4.0 to 5.99 years of service (Years 4, 5)	0.96 Days (7.69 hours)	25	50
6.0 to 9.99 years of service (Years 6, 7, 8, 9)	1.15 Days (9.23 hours)	30	60
10+ years of service (Years 10+)	1.34 Days (10.77 hours)	35	70

🏢 Pure Storage

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

🏢 Salesforce

Last updated: May 2023.

"Unlimited" PTO¹ for salaried US employees. (source)

🏢 Slack

Last updated: May 2023.

See Salesforce.

🏢 SoundCloud

(Contributor needed!)

🏢 Spotify

(Contributor needed!)

🏢 Stripe

Last updated: May 2023.

Stripe (in the US) does 21 days of PTO, 10 holidays (including Christmas / New Years / Thanksgiving), and an office shutdown between Christmas and New Years. 20 weeks parental leave for the birthing parent and 16 for non-birthing.

🏢 Twitch

Last updated: May 2023.

🇺🇸 Twitch (US)

"Unlimited" PTO¹, despite being an Amazon subsidiary.

🏢 Uplight

Last updated: May 2022.

"Unlimited" PTO¹

Footnotes

1. "Unlimited" PTO is rarely unlimited and has drawbacks [1] [2] [3] [4] ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²