Employees in These Cities to Take the Most Vacation Days This Summer

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 6, 4:28AM EST · Published May 21, 9:34AM EDT

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With Memorial Day coming at the end of this week, and the official start of summer a month away, American workers have begun to make vacation plans, if they have not done so already. The number of vacation days that people plan to take varies from city to city. Where they plan to go also varies widely.

A new study from Accountemps found that 58% of workers surveyed save their vacation time for June, July and August. The survey shows that the average number of days the respondents plan to take is 10. People in San Francisco plan to take the most a 13. Miami and New York follow San Francisco at 12 days of vacation each.

The study included responses from 2,800 workers over the age of 18 who work in “office environments.” Presumably, this does not include people who work remotely or from home, which currently makes up about 5% of the workforce.

In terms of the percentage of workers who are saving some number of days for vacation, Los Angeles ranks first at 74%. Detroit and New York follow at 71% each. Miami rounds out the first four at 69%.

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Leading the cities where the fewest people will put aside time for summer vacation are Phoenix at 44%, Tampa at 46% and Nashville at 48%. Notably, this may not be because any of the three cities get unusually hot in the summer, and people want to leave. None of the three is among the hottest cities in each state.

The number of vacation days that people plan to take this summer varies considerably. Thirty-one percent plan to take one to five days, followed by 29% who plan to take six to 10 days. Sixteen percent plan to take seven to 10 days, followed by people who plan to take the longest number of days. That is, 9% with 21 days or longer. The lowest number, 6%, plan to take 16 to 20 days. Eight percent plan to take no time at all.

What kinds of workers are most likely to take a vacation or spend the most time away from work? The new study does not say. However, the industry people work in could have an effect. San Francisco is among the 15 U.S. cities with the most high-tech jobs.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.