How much PTO did you guys take this year including the ons scheduled for the end of this month?

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I try to use all of mine but it cost me a promotion one year lol

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Yep could have been worse I guess

32 days on top of the ~20 firm holidays

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Don’t care and others in my group take similar amounts (maybe 28/29 days - close enough though). GT - as long as we hit the chargeable hour target for our rank, they don’t care how much we take. I had ~1300 chargeable hours last year as a director (aka manager)

25 days

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28-30days maybe

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