Just a quick question, I've been with NG for 7 months now. I've been in the corporate world for 20+ years and I didn't quite understand how backwards their PTO policy is. I was given 40 hours upon my onboarding in October. At the beginning of the year, I was not given any additional hours. I accrue PTO at 3.04 hours every two weeks. This policy doesn't seem competitive with any company I've ever been associated with. Even retail places like Walmart or Di-k's has a better policy.
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I left a company with unlimited PTO. Its a double edge sword, I never took much more than what I would have, not abusing the system.
You won't get more PTO hours until you hit your 2 years mark at NG. I left NG for a competitor which does "unlimited" PTO so the company doesn't need to pay off the PTO balance when people quit, but people at my new company take 4 to 6 weeks of PTO every year easily regardless of tenure, and we also have way more company holidays than NG. NG is only trying to compete with other primes like RTX and Lockheed. NG's PTO policy is significantly worse than regular F500 companies.
Talk to your manager or local HR about this.
But calculate it this way. 80 hours of PTO is about 2 weeks, which I think is quite standard for most places until you hit the 5 year mark. 3.04hrs x 26 weeks gives you 79ish hours, so the calculation is pretty close. That means over the 26 weeks of your first year, you can accumulate 80 hours. You accumulate it over time. Now it might be you were given 40 hours to start out, if you take those 40 hours before you have accumulated it, you go in the hole and you have to "fill" it back up over the year, but no penalty for doing so.
Does that help? No I'm not in HR, just an T5 engineer.