The Formula to Get More Time Off Using Your Vacation Days

It is barely past New Year’s Day. If you’ve taken the day off, congratulations: You have aced your first test of vacation-day math. 

We get only so many days of paid time off a year. And that is if you’re lucky—one in five U.S. private-sector workers gets no PTO, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Without a strategy, you can have a generous number of vacation days and still feel like you never truly got away from it all.