In my multiple corporate jobs, my best recollection is 7 holidays, like so: Memorial Day 1 4th of July 1 Labor Day 1 Thanksgiving 1 Christm

In my multiple corporate jobs, my best recollection is 7 holidays, like so: Memorial Day 1 4th of July 1 Labor Day 1 Thanksgiving 1 Christmas - New Years 3 (one day moves between the two, depending upon the calendar / weekdays for a particular year) Some places also gave the day after Thanksgiving; however, this was increasingly disappearing (personally observed at more than one location during my tenure). Some (fewer) places also made Christmas Eve and/or New Years Eve a standing holiday; again, this was disappearing from practice. Paid vacation often started at two weeks -- 10 days. However, depending upon your manager, you could end up consuming a significant portion of that for doctors appointments, home maintenance, managing whatever problem the kids have, etc. (Some managers insist you take every hour out of the office as time off; others are more flexible.) A fairly standard policy seemed to be to add one week (5 days) of paid vacation after 5 years tenure. Another week at 10 years tenure. Most such increases maxed out at 3 or 4 weeks vacation, no matter the length of tenure. Sick days were increasingly disappearing; this seemed to be a target of management consultants' recommendations for "streamlining" operations. Some workplaces were/are somewhat more generous; however, none of that is mandated. (And again, the consultants with their "best practices" seem to have been making inroads on this -- just as they've continued to wedge people into smaller and smaller cubes having lower and fewer walls.) I mention all this in part because I think many higher level technical people are somewhat sheltered. (Not all, though.) While technical, I worked fairly closely with many people who were not, and the above was not unusual.