You're working: how many days do you get off per year?

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Oh, and to add to what jobs I worked for the days I got off:

1. City of Circleville (government job, police dispatcher) - about 10 days off/yr. Forced to work weekends/holidays if it was my shift. 2x pay compensation
2. Medical Transport officer (medical transport for geriatric patients) - about 4 days off /yr. Forced to work when they needed me. No pay compensation. Small-ish business (about 150 employees)
3. Business analyst for video game company (under a wing of the InterActive Corporation) - 20-25 days off a year - all major holidays, multiple days for Christmas (2 weeks), Thanksgiving (usually 2 days)

So in my experience, my corporate job is by far the best. Admittedly, my government job was about the least cushy one you could get...That job isn't representative of government work, as I had a part time government job prior to my FT work as a police dispatcher...If I worked full time there, I would have got about 2 weeks off a year. 

@NJ5 - Retirement is really relative to what job you have in the US. If you work for the government, you retire with fantastic pension in 30 years. Had I of kept my FT job in the government, I would of been able to retire at the ripe old age of 50 years old. My fiancee still works for the government, and will retire with PT pension at the age of 49. On the other end, some people love their work, and never retire in the US. Still others, the typical age is around 60 or 65 when most typical pension systems kick in.

@FMC - in regards to your OP, in the US, it really, REALLY depends on where you work. Some crappy jobs like my MTO job were atrocious with just a few days off a year. Worst job in the world (but really fulfulling, honestly), whereas others are much closer to 30 days or more. It really just depends on where you work, and who you work for. Standard factory jobs usually get 2-3 weeks off a year, not including your weekends.

Oh, and all of that precludes vacation days, personal days, and so on. I am talking about days off without including such things as sick time, vacation and the like. I know a guy who worked for the city that had 3 years of paid sick time accumulated.