Time Off
Amgen provides a variety of industry-leading paid time off policies, featuring a generous holiday schedule with paid week-long summer and winter shutdowns.
2024 Holiday Schedule
Most staff are generally allotted 18 annual holidays:
- Monday, January 1 (New Year’s Day)
- Monday, January 15 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
- Monday, May 27 (Memorial Day)
- Wednesday, June 19 (Juneteenth)
- Monday, July 1 to Friday, July 5 (summer shutdown)
- Monday, September 2 (Labor Day)
- Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 (Thanksgiving holiday)
- Monday, December 23 to Tuesday, December 31 (winter shutdown)
| Length of Service | Maximum Hours Accrued Per Year* | Maximum Accrual |
|---|---|---|
|
From 0 to end of 4th year |
120 |
210 |
|
Beginning on the…anniversary |
||
|
5th |
128 |
224 |
|
6th |
136 |
238 |
|
7th |
144 |
252 |
|
8th |
152 |
266 |
|
9th |
160 |
280 |
|
10th |
164 |
287 |
* Amgen policy allows staff to utilize up to 60 hours of negative vacation time.
Starting with the 10th year of service and continuing until you reach your 19th anniversary, you earn an additional four hours of vacation each year to a maximum accrual rate of 200 hours per year. To review the complete vacation accrual chart, see the absence-from-work policy.
Other Paid Time Off Policies
Other paid time off policies include:
- Personal/Family Illness. Amgen offers up to 10 days (80 hours) for your own or an immediate family member’s illness, as well as any time you may need as a new parent to care for the mother and baby.
- Bereavement. You may take up to five days (40 hours) after the death of certain family members.
- Jury Duty. Amgen provides pay for up to 10 days (80 hours) per calendar year. Note that these amounts are for full-time staff members. Amounts are pro-rated for staff members who routinely work a part-time schedule.
- Parental Leave. Amgen provides up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave to care for a staff member’s child after birth; for the placement of a child with a staff member for adoption or foster care; or following the designation of a staff member as the legal guardian of a child (collectively, “baby-bonding purposes”). Parental leave must be completed within one year of the birth, adoption, foster care placement or designation.
- Volunteer Service. Amgen provides up to eight paid hours off per calendar year.