Companies that offer paid sabbaticals
Length of the paid sabbatical, in weeks, and who qualifies.
- Companies ranked
- 10
- No. 1
- Procter & Gamble
- Middle of the pack
- 4 weeks
- Updated
- 2026
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No. 2 McDonald's 8 weeks 8 weeks after 10 years · United States; after 10 years with the company · Chicago, Illinois -
No. 1 Procter & Gamble 13 weeks up to 3 months · Every five years; 3 months converted ×4.33 · Cincinnati, Ohio -
No. 3 Autodesk 6 weeks 6 weeks every 4 years · United States; every four years of service, 100% pay · San Francisco, California
Week by week
One block = one week of paid leave.
Full ranking
- 1
Procter & Gamble up to 3 months · Every five years; 3 months converted ×4.33 13 weeks - 2
McDonald's 8 weeks after 10 years · United States; after 10 years with the company 8 weeks - 3
Autodesk 6 weeks every 4 years · United States; every four years of service, 100% pay 6 weeks - 3
Workday 6 weeks after 10 years · United States, after 10 years 6 weeks - 3
Zillow up to 6 weeks after 6 years · United States, after six years of continuous full-time work 6 weeks - 6
Adobe 4–6 weeks · United States; 4 weeks at 5 years, 5 at 10, 6 at 15 and every 5 years after 4 weeks - 6
eBay 4 weeks every 5 years · Paid, for every 5 years of service 4 weeks - 6
HubSpot 4 weeks after 5 years · Paid, after five years with HubSpot 4 weeks - 6
Intel 4 weeks after 7 years · United States; after 7 years of service 4 weeks - 6
Uber 4 weeks after 8 years · United States, after eight years 4 weeks
Not published (309): NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, Tesla, Netflix, Salesforce, Oracle, Cisco, IBM, AMD, Qualcomm, ServiceNow, Intuit, ASML, Spotify, Shopify, SAP, Airbnb, JPMorganChase, Sony Group, TSMC, Samsung Electronics, Toyota Motor Corporation, Nintendo, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Costco Wholesale, Nike, Visa, Mastercard, Starbucks, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, The Walt Disney Company, LVMH, L'Oréal, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bloomberg, Snap, Atlassian, Pinterest, Dropbox, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Dell Technologies, HP Inc., PayPal, Block, Stripe, Etsy, Booking Holdings, Electronic Arts, DoorDash, Lyft, Twilio, Expedia Group, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, Target, Bank of America, The Home Depot, adidas, Unilever, H&M Group, Inditex, Fast Retailing (UNIQLO), The LEGO Group, Volkswagen Group, BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Ferrari, Porsche, Boeing, Airbus, 3M, Honeywell, Siemens, Philips, General Motors, Roche, Novartis, AstraZeneca, GSK, Bayer, AT&T, Alibaba Group, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com, Rakuten Group, Panasonic, SoftBank Group, Mitsubishi Corporation, LY Corporation, Recruit Holdings, Mercari, CyberAgent, Shiseido, NTT, Deutsche Bank, Infosys, Klarna, Adyen, HSBC, Barclays, Ericsson, Zalando, Vodafone, Rolls-Royce, Carlsberg, A.P. Moller - Maersk, Heineken, RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), The Estée Lauder Companies, Under Armour, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Take-Two Interactive, Duolingo, YouTube, Squarespace, Figma, Notion, Dyson, Telefónica, BASF, Macquarie Group, The Swatch Group, BBVA, Munich Re, Orange, ING Group, Michelin, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Marriott International, Zurich Insurance Group, Audi, Lufthansa Group, General Mills, DHL Group, Vestas, Danone, KONE, Bosch, Burberry, American Airlines, Hilton, Capital One, Delta Air Lines, Banco Santander, Levi Strauss & Co., Kering, UBS, Sanofi, DBS Bank, Hermès, Diageo, Eni, Shell, Huawei, AXA, BNP Paribas, TD Bank Group (The Toronto-Dominion Bank), FedEx, Fujifilm, KDDI, Commerzbank, Mondelēz International, BHP, Dentsu, SEGA, United Airlines, Amgen, Wayfair, Kao, Square Enix, MongoDB, Best Buy, Lowe's, Bandai Namco, UniCredit, Yamaha, Intesa Sanpaolo, MIXI, ASOS, Xero, Kirin Holdings, Nokia, Asahi Group Holdings, Olympus, Daikin, ANA, Money Forward, Nissan, Sansan, DeNA, Accenture, NEC, Bridgestone, Denso, ZOZO, Cybozu, KOKUYO, Saint-Gobain, Okamura, Henkel, Obayashi, Sumitomo Corporation, Nikon, ITOKI, Mitsui & Co., ABN AMRO, ENGIE, Telenor, Rabobank, Société Générale, CaixaBank, Nordea, Pirelli, Repsol, Crédit Agricole, AkzoNobel, Wärtsilä, Continental, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, BlackRock, American Express, lululemon athletica, Datadog, Moderna, T-Mobile US, GitHub, Pixar Animation Studios, Slack, PUMA, Canva, Revolut, BT Group, Takeda, Dassault Systèmes, Grab, Generali, PNC Financial Services, Sherwin-Williams, Weyerhaeuser, State Street, Union Pacific, John Deere, Cummins, McCormick, Norfolk Southern, Akamai, Duke Energy, Phillips 66, Sun Life, Swedbank, Eaton, Endesa, Thomson Reuters, Keurig Dr Pepper, Cboe Global Markets, Nutrien, Western Digital, Suncorp, Medibank, Darden Restaurants, Prologis, Lenovo, Imperial Oil, T. Rowe Price, Leidos, FIS, Cencora, Jabil, Edwards Lifesciences, Aflac, Molson Coors, CBRE, APA Corporation, AvalonBay Communities, Insight Enterprises, Walker & Dunlop, Group 1 Automotive, Fivetran, Glenmede, Davis Wright Tremaine, Whole Foods Market, Oberoi Realty, Goodyear, Bandwidth, Western Union, Halliburton, Aramark, Silicon Labs, MathWorks, M/I Homes. These companies don’t publish this figure, so we don’t rank them.
Questions
Which company has the highest paid sabbatical?
Among the 10 companies on eciffo that publish it, Procter & Gamble ranks first with 13 weeks (up to 3 months · Every five years; 3 months converted ×4.33), followed by McDonald's (8 weeks) and Autodesk (6 weeks).
What is a typical paid sabbatical at big companies?
The middle company in this ranking, Adobe, has 4 weeks. Half of the 10 ranked companies are above that and half below.
Where do these numbers come from?
Length of the paid sabbatical, in weeks, and who qualifies. Companies that don’t publish the figure are not ranked; eciffo never estimates.
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