2024 – 2025 Regional Paid Holiday Survey Results
2024-2025 Regional Paid Holiday Survey
Released: August 2024
Overview
This annual survey provides a comprehensive look at observed and unobserved holidays across Florida, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri organizations. It focuses on paid holiday practices, including the Christmas-New Year’s holiday bridges for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, making it an essential resource for employers.
Key Findings
- Holiday Observances: A significant majority of organizations (over 85%) observe full-day holidays for key dates like Christmas and New Year’s, with a notable number also offering holiday bridges between these dates.
- Floating Holidays: 43.3% of organizations provide floating holidays, with the majority offering between 1 to 2 days.
- Regional Variations: Observance rates and holiday bridge practices vary across states, with Missouri and Illinois showing the highest levels of holiday observance.
Demographics
- Participation: The survey includes responses from 344 organizations across a range of industries and employee sizes.
- Industry Representation: Data is collected from sectors such as manufacturing, health care, finance, and non-profits, among others.
- Employee Size: Participants range from small companies with fewer than 50 employees to large organizations with over 1,000 employees.
How to Use This Report
This report is designed to guide your organization’s holiday planning and time-off strategies for the upcoming years. Whether you’re assessing your current holiday schedule or considering the introduction of floating holidays, the data provided here offers valuable benchmarks.
- Benchmarking: Compare your organization’s holiday observances with those of other companies in your region and industry to ensure you remain competitive in offering time-off benefits.
- Planning Holiday Bridges: Use the insights on Christmas-New Year’s holiday bridges to decide if and how to implement these extended time-off periods in your organization.
- Floating Holidays: Evaluate the prevalence of floating holidays across similar organizations and determine if adding or adjusting these days could enhance your employee benefits package.
For further customized insights or specific data not included in this report, please contact the AAIM Solutions Team at solutions.team@aaimea.org or call 314-754-0236.
Thank You to Our Participants
Thank you to the 344 organizations that participated in the 2024-2025 Regional Paid Holiday Survey. Your contributions are crucial to the continued accuracy and relevance of our holiday and time-off data.