NSW residents, are you always running out of annual leave? Us too. Get 51 days of holiday time in 2018 – from only 20 days of annual leave.
Do you wish you could have more than one holiday a year? Are you keen for an extended Asian trip, but also want a couple of city breaks as well? Well, we *think* we’ve cracked it and you can have both.
With a bit of holiday-hacking know-how and well-thought-out annual leave planning, you can physically be away on holiday for a whopping 51 days of 2018 – with no unpaid leave.
Twenty days is the legal minimum for full-time employees in Australia, so this hack is possible for any full-time employee. Just book the days off early, before your colleagues discover this super-simple idea too.
In those 51 days off work you could do all of this in just one year:
- A 7-day post-New Year’s break to New Zealand
- A 4-day summer mini break to the Cook Islands
- 16 days cruising around Asia
- A 9-day holiday to hunt cherry blossoms in Japan
- A 3-day long weekend in Melbourne
- A 3-day beach break up to Byron Bay
- 9 days off to visit family over Christmas
How to max out your leave in NSW
The dark green dates are the public holidays in NSW while the planes are how many days off you should take to make the most of them.
In depth: Take off the following days in italics as annual leave:
January 2018
Monday 1 January (Public holiday - New Year's Day)
Tuesday 2 January
Wednesday 3 January
Thursday 4 January
Friday 5 January
Saturday 6 January
Sunday 7 January
Total run: 7 days / 4 annual leave days
Thursday 25 January
Friday 26 January (Public holiday – Australia Day)
Saturday 27 January
Sunday 28 January
Total run: 4 days / 1 annual leave day
March
Saturday 24 March
Sunday 25 March
Monday 26 March
Tuesday 27 March
Wednesday 28 March
Thursday 29 March
Friday 30 March (Public holiday – Good Friday)
Saturday 31 March
Sunday 1 April
Monday 2 April (Public holiday – Easter Monday)
Tuesday 3 April
Wednesday 4 April
Thursday 5 April
Friday 6 April
Saturday 7 April
Sunday 8 April
Total run: 16 days / 8 annual leave days
April
Saturday 21 April
Sunday 22 April
Monday 23 April
Tuesday 24 April
Wednesday 25 April (Public holiday – Anzac Day)
Thursday 26 April
Friday 27 April
Saturday 28 April
Sunday 29 April
Total run: 9 days / 4 annual leave days
June
Saturday 9 June
Sunday 10 June
Monday 11 June (Public holiday – Queen’s Birthday)
Total run: 3 days / 0 annual leave days
September & October
Saturday 29 September
Sunday 30 September
Monday 1 October (Public holiday – Labour Day)
Total run: 3 days / 0 annual leave days
December
Saturday 22 December
Sunday 23 December
Monday 24 December
Tuesday 25 December (Public holiday – Christmas Day)
Wednesday 26 (Public holiday – Boxing Day)
Thursday 27 December
Friday 28 December
Saturday 29 December
Sunday 30 December
Total run: 9 days / 3 annual leave days
That's a lot of travelling.
Keep an eye on our Boxing Day flight sales to get those holidays booked.
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