Monday, August 20, 2012

Vacation Time

Did you get away on vacation at some point this summer? Most Americans do get some paid leave from their jobs, but it might not be quite as many of them as you think. According to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 59 percent of all American workers get some form of paid leave, while 39.7 percent do not. Another 1.1 percent of workers do not know, for some reason, whether they get paid leave or not.

Unsurprisingly, the more education a person has, the more likely they are to get paid vacation. Among Americans with a bachelor's degree, 71.6 percent of them got some type of paid leave, while only 34.9 percent of those without a high school diploma could say the same.

Most American workers do get some time away from work, though. If you add together both paid and unpaid leave, more than 90 percent of all U.S. employees get some sort of officially sanctioned time away from the job.

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