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Month: January 2025

Maximizing your PTO time off in 2025

Maximizing your PTO time off in 2025

Want to maximize your time off in 2025? Take these 12 additional days as vacation days and get the maximum number of long weekends!

  • Wednesday, Jan. 1 (New Year’s Day): Take off Jan. 2–3 for a five-day weekend. If you also have Dec. 31 off, take Monday, Dec. 30 for a full week of vacation.
  • Monday, Jan. 20 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day): Take off Friday, Jan. 17
  • Monday, Feb. 17 (President’s Day): Take off Friday, Feb. 14
  • Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day): Take off Friday, May 23
  • Thursday, June 19 (Juneteenth National Independence Day): Take off Friday, June 20
  • Friday, July 4 (Independence Day): Take off Thursday, July 3
  • Monday, Sept. 1 (Labor Day): Take off Friday, Aug. 29
  • Monday, Oct. 13 (Indigenous People’s Day): Take off Friday, Oct. 10
  • Tuesday, Nov. 11 (Veteran’s Day): Take off Monday, Nov. 10
  • Thursday, Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day): Take off Friday, Nov. 28. If you already have this day off, request Wednesday, Nov. 26 to get a five day weekend.
  • Thursday, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day): Take off Friday, Dec. 26. If you have Dec. 24 off as well, you get a five-day weekend. Or take off Dec. 22–24 and Dec. 26 to get a nine-day vacation with only four days of PTO.

Contiki also has a calendar calculator to help you out (If you squint enough. Time to hire a better graphic designer). Enter a dummy email address since it displays it, not emails it to you.

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Oregon ranks at bottom of medium salaries

Oregon ranks at bottom of medium salaries

ADP, the payroll company, has shared the lowest and highest median salaries by state. They used the wages and salaries of almost 10 million employees over 12 months to collect their data.

The results? Oregon is 48th – essentially tied with Arkansas and below Nevada as having the worst pay in the country.

RankStateAverage annual salary
48Oregon$50,100
49Arkansas$50,000
50Mississippi$46,000
51New Mexico$40,200

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