I'm a governmental auditor (I audit county governments) for the State of Alabama. We earn 4 hours 20 minutes vacation leave and 4 hours 20 minutes sick leave every pay period. Our pay periods are every half month, so that amounts to 13 days of vacation and 13 days of sick each year.
After 5 years of working with the Department, vacation leave goes up to 5 hours 25 minutes earned each pay period, which amounts to 16 days and 2 hours of vacation leave every year. After 10 years, this increases to 19 days and 4 hours of vacation leave each year, and this continues all the way through 25 years with the Department earning 29 days and 2 hours of vacation leave each year.
We also get 1 personal day that we earn at the beginning of the year.
We also get a generous amount of holidays off….13 paid holidays guaranteed. Which doesn't include the Friday after Thanksgiving, which has always been approved since I've been working, and depending on when Christmas falls, we sometimes get 2 days off for Christmas, so we are pretty much guaranteed 14/15 paid holidays every year.
We aren't allowed overtime or comp time, but we aren't expected to work over. Thankfully, there is usually not a big rush to get our audits done so we can usually take off whenever we want during the year, even if it's pretty spur of the moment, except for the last week of October, which is our yearly training. You have to be pretty much on your deathbed to miss that lol.
Our jobs do require some travel, but usually not more than 1 hour or 1 hour 30 minutes. But that can make workdays exceed 10 hours (including driving).
But I'm sure that is still much better than most/all public accounting firms. I value my time and like having the luxury to take off pretty much whenever. And I do not wish to sleep in my office.
AUD - 85 (8/30/2015)
FAR - 73 (10/13/2015), 85 (2/29/2016) (AND DONE!)
BEC - 83 (11/04/2015)
REG - 81 (11/30/2015)