i get 160hrs PTO now, not half bad! and they let us carry i think 40 or 80 over for the whole year, but dont pay it out if unused.
one thing i miss working in the defense industry was the 9/80 schedule and the large amount of PTO we had. I started with 120hrs and on my 2nd year, it went up to 160hrs. on year 4 it was supposed to go up to 200hrs, but i moved to a different industry after 3.5 years.
man, i had soooo much time off. it was all bullshit work too, so i could really just take off whenever, as long as my own work wasn't in a critical stage.
my friend is moving to france at the end of the month and his company gives him the nationally mandated 240hrs of PTO plus an extra 40hrs, as well as 11 paid holidays. super envious of that