# Time off: Paid Leave Benchmark

> The median published figure in the Paid Leave Benchmark is 79 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 63 to 94 percent), read 12 October 2026.

PTOroom · https://ptoroom.com/datasets/paid-leave-benchmark/ · computed 2026-10-18

**Median published figure:** 79 % (range 63 to 94 %; 3 sources with a figure; 3 of 11 sources read publish one).

3 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 79 percent across 3).

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [ABS Working arrangements (AU)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) | 94 % | 2026-10-11 |
| [BLS The Economics Daily - Employee Benefits Survey series](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/employee-benefits-survey.htm) | 79 % | 2026-10-12 |
| [BLS Employee Benefits Survey - paid sick leave fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-sick-leave.htm) | 63 % | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (3)

- [ABS Working arrangements (AU)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release), read 2026-10-11: "In August 2025, 94% of employees who earned the median wage of $1,425 per week or more were entitled to either paid sick leave or paid holiday leave, or both."
- [BLS The Economics Daily - Employee Benefits Survey series](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/employee-benefits-survey.htm), read 2026-10-12: "A look at paid family leave by wage category in 2021 (01/10/2022) Paid sick leave was available to 79 percent of civilian workers in March 2021 (10/12/2021)"
- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey - paid sick leave fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-sick-leave.htm), read 2026-10-12: "For 63 percent of workers with paid sick leave, sick leave plans provide a fixed number of days per year(2) with an average of 8 days available for their use after 1 year of service."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey - paid vacations fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-vacations.htm), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS chart - paid leave days by service requirement](https://www.bls.gov/charts/employee-benefits/paid-leave-sick-vacation-days-by-service-requirement.htm), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS Employee Benefits in the United States news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey home](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [BLS National Compensation Survey](https://www.bls.gov/ncs/), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Statistics Canada table 14-10-0320-01 (paid leave)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410032001), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [OECD hours worked](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [OECD Family Database](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/oecd-family-database.html), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 11 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 31 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the national statistic on paid-leave provision per jurisdiction with its reference period, arranged so a buyer can place their own policy: average paid vacation days by length of service and the access rate, against the statutory floor from the rules table, giving the gap between what the law requires and what the market gives; the hours-to-days conversion is derived from the same source's average working week rather than assumed at eight hours, which is the whole content of 'pto hours to days' and '100 hours of pto is how many days'; changed-since on each statistical release

## Sources

- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey - paid sick leave fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-sick-leave.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey - paid vacations fact sheet](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-vacations.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS chart - paid leave days by service requirement](https://www.bls.gov/charts/employee-benefits/paid-leave-sick-vacation-days-by-service-requirement.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS Employee Benefits in the United States news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS Employee Benefits Survey home](https://www.bls.gov/ebs/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS The Economics Daily - Employee Benefits Survey series](https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/employee-benefits-survey.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS National Compensation Survey](https://www.bls.gov/ncs/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS Working arrangements (AU)](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada table 14-10-0320-01 (paid leave)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410032001) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [OECD hours worked](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [OECD Family Database](https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/oecd-family-database.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Paid Leave Benchmark is 79 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 63 to 94 percent), read 12 October 2026.
- 3 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 79 percent across 3).

Cite as: "PTOroom Paid Leave Benchmark", updated 2026-10-18, https://ptoroom.com/datasets/paid-leave-benchmark/.

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