Vacation Days Calculator

Days Available is Total PTO Days/Year minus everything else you've used or planned -- as the starting balance, it has an outsized share of the total compared to any single one of Days Already Used, Days Already Planned, or Sick Days Used, which each only subtract their own smaller amount from that starting figure.

Days/Month Remaining divides your remaining PTO balance by however many months are left in the year, so the same balance gets spread thin in January with 11-plus months left but concentrated in December with just one month left. This single input swings the result more than any of the day-count fields.

No. Annual Salary only feeds PTO Value, the dollar value of your remaining time off -- it has zero effect on Days Available, Days/Month Remaining, Full Weeks Off, Usage Rate, or Accrual Balance, all of which are calculated purely from day counts and, where relevant, Current Month.

Accrual Balance compares how much PTO you've earned so far this year, Total PTO Days/Year divided by 12 times Current Month, against what you've already used. Early in the year you've earned very little, so the balance often runs negative even with modest usage; by December you've earned your full allotment, so the same usage looks far healthier.

No. Accrual Balance only subtracts Days Already Used and Sick Days Used from what you've earned to date -- Days Already Planned represents time you intend to take but haven't yet, so it's excluded from this figure even though it does reduce Days Available and Days/Month Remaining.