If you don’t use all of your PTO during the year, you can carry over up to five unused days without affecting the next year’s PTO amount when the new plan year begins on Feb. 1.
Note: Policies and rules in some states and cities may affect how much PTO you can carry over without affecting the next year’s grant. Please see the PTO Policy for full details.
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Carry over
All unused PTO carries over and be will be available to use next year.
Jan. 31
Current plan year ends. If you have more than 5 unused days, your grant for the new year will be reduced.
Feb. 1
First day of new plan year. Your entire grant for the new year is available to use, including any carry over.
Nothing! Any PTO which you weren’t able to use before the end of the plan year will carry over and be available to use during the next plan year. You don’t lose any of your unused PTO. In most locations* you can carry over 5 unused days without affecting your next year’s grant.
* If you work in California; Colorado; Chicago/Cook County, IL; Dallas, TX; New York; Saint Paul, MN; Seattle, WA; Philadelphia, PA; and Washington, DC, you can carry over more than 5 days without reducing your next year’s grant. See your Salaried PTO Policy for details.
In most locations*, you can carry over up to 5 days without affecting your next year’s grant. If you have more than 5 unused days at the end of the year, your grant for the next year will be reduced.
* If you work in California; Colorado; Chicago/Cook County, IL; Dallas, TX; New York; Saint Paul, MN; Seattle, WA; Philadelphia, PA; and Washington, DC, you can carry over more than 5 days without reducing your next year’s grant. See your Salaried PTO Policy for details.
Sometimes unavoidable or unforeseen business conditions or circumstances occur and you’ll be asked to postpone or delay your planned PTO. For example, you may have to cancel plans because a co-worker has gone on leave due to a medical emergency. If this happens, please make every effort to re-schedule your time off as soon as possible. If this causes you to have more than 5 unused days at the end of the plan year, the days you are asked to postpone will not reduce your PTO grant for the next year.
We want you to stick around—that’s why we increase PTO based on the amount of time you’ve been with Walmart. Your grant will be based on the anniversary you celebrate during the PTO plan year, and you can use it right away. For details, see the PTO Grant Schedule.
Your entire grant will be available for you to use on Feb. 1, the first day of the new plan year.
While your entire grant is advanced and available for use each Feb. 1, you earn a portion of your grant on the first day of each month in the plan year. You can see how much PTO you earn each month here.
If you had more than 5 days of unused PTO at the end of the plan year, your grant for this year will be reduced and there will be a delay in when you start earning your new grant. Associates in some locations can carry over more than five days without affecting their next year’s grant, so please see your Salaried PTO policy for details.
For example, if you are a 20 year associate who receives 36 PTO days each year, you earn 3 days each month. If you have 10 unused days at the end of the year, you won’t earn any days in Feb and will only earn 1 day in March. You will then earn 3 days per month for the remainder of the year.
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