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North America · Verified annual-leave guide

🇨🇦Canada

This baseline applies only to federally regulated employers; provincial and territorial rules can differ.

Statutory paid annual leaveFederal baseline: 2 weeks after 1 year; 3 after 5; 4 after 10Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent10 days at year 1; 15 at 5 years; 20 at 10 yearsNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedGovernment of Canada
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • Select your province or territory where supported; the federal calendar is not a complete substitute for provincial employment rules.
  • Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving and the Christmas period often create useful combinations.
  • Vacation entitlement depends on the applicable federal, provincial or territorial labour regime.

Legal basis and comparison method

This baseline applies only to federally regulated employers; provincial and territorial rules can differ.

Equivalent by service length

1st year / first full entitlement10 days
2 years10 days
5 years15 days
10 years20 days
20+ years20 days

Simplified comparison points. Actual legal thresholds may use anniversaries, cumulative service, education credits or other rules.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: Government of Canada. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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