Paid Leave Benefits

Sick Leave

If you work full-time, you earn one working day of sick leave each month. Sick leave is accumulated to a maximum of 130 working days (1,040 hours). Sick leave is prorated for regular, part-time staff.

Vacation Leave

If your position is not exempt from the Fair Labors Standards Act, you earn paid vacation leave on the basis of the following schedule:

0-4 years of continuous employment
0.038462 hour x number of hours worked and/or paid leave hours (approximately 2 weeks/year for a full-time staff member)

4-9 years of continuous employment
0.057692 hour x number of hours worked and/or paid leave hours (approximately 3 weeks/year for a full-time staff member)

9-14 years of continuous employment
0.069231 hour x number of hours worked and/or paid leave hours (approximately 3 weeks + 3 days/year for a full-time staff member)

14 years of continuous employment and over
0.076923 hour x number of hours worked and/or paid leave hours (approximately 4 weeks/year for a full-time staff member)

If your position is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, you earn twenty (20) paid vacation leave days per year. The vacation leave accrual may fluctuate from pay period to pay period, based on the length of each pay period. Vacation leave is prorated for part-time staff.

Campus Holidays and Bonus Days

Floating Holiday

If you are a regular (non-temporary) staff member, on January 1 of each calendar year you will be granted a floating holiday, intended to supplement the days off provided as campus holidays and bonus days. If you are hired after the start of the calendar year, you will receive the floating holiday benefit on January 1 following your date of hire. If you are a staff member who is budgeted to work 1.0 FTE, you will be granted eight hours of floating holiday leave. If you are budgeted to work less than 1.0 FTE, you will receive a prorated number of hours (eight hours x budgeted FTE = number of hours granted).

Other Paid Leave

You are also eligible for other forms of paid leave time such as:

Bereavement Leave

You may request up to three working days off with pay to attend the funeral and/or to make funeral arrangements for a member of your immediate family or household. To attend the funeral of a relative who is not a member of your immediate family, you may request up to one day off with pay.

Jury Duty

The university encourages a staff member to perform his or her civic duty by serving when called to jury duty and protects a staff member's income to encourage this service.

Military Leave

The university recognizes the right of a staff member to perform services in the uniformed services and provides Military Leave for a staff member to perform his or her military duties.

Personal Business Appointments Leave

If you are a regular (non-temporary) staff member in a position that is FLSA non-exempt, on January 1 of each calendar year you will be granted up to eight hours of personal business appointments leave hours. If you cannot schedule a personal business appointment (e.g. meeting with a contractor, event at your child's school) outside your normal work schedule, you may request to use personal business appointments leave to cover such an absence. Personal business appointments leave is granted at the supervisor's discretion.

If you are hired after the start of the calendar year, you will receive personal business appointments leave hours on January 1 following your date of hire. If you are a non-exempt staff member who is budgeted to work 1.0 FTE, you will be granted eight hours of personal business appointments leave. If you are budgeted to work less than 1.0 FTE, you will receive a prorated number of hours (eight hours x budgeted FTE = number of hours granted).

Detailed descriptions of these and other programs can be found in the Staff Policies and Procedures Manual.

Find the Leave Request Form here.