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• Regular or Protected?

• Full-time or part-time?

It’s all explained here. Take a look!

Hourly associates

PTO offers choice, flexibility, and peace of mind.

PTO gives you control over your time away and flexibility in how you use it. Take time when you choose for just about anything: holidays, family time, personal needs, and when you’re sick and miss work. Plus if you don’t use all your PTO this year, some rolls over to the new year and the rest turns into cash!

For full-time associates, PTO works together with short-term disability coverage to support you when you need extended time off due to your own serious medical condition. And depending on your needs, a paid or unpaid leave of absence can cover you if you need to be away for a longer time.

These pages offer a quick summary. For complete details, please see the PTO policies for your work location:

Types of Paid Time Off

Usually you can plan your time away, but sometimes you can’t. That’s why all Walmart, Sam’s Club, and Supply Chain hourly field associates (plus hourly Home Office, Corporate, and Global Tech associates in some locations) have two kinds of PTO—regular PTO and Protected PTO.

Use Regular PTO for just about anything, anytime—as long as you make a request and get approval before you take off. You can also use regular PTO to be paid for an absence, but it won’t help you avoid attendance points like Protected PTO.

Use Protected PTO when you’re out sick, need to care for family, have transportation issues, or when anything else comes up that keeps you away. Even if you use it at the last minute, it’ll protect you from attendance points due to an unplanned absence as long as you’ve got enough Protected PTO to cover the time away. For more information about how Protected PTO works, see below:
• Field Walmart, Sam's Club, Supply Chain
• Corporate and Home Office

Need more time due to a chronic medical condition?
If you have a chronic or long-term medical condition, or are caring for a family member with such a condition, you should request an intermittent Leave of Absence (LOA) through mySedgwick.com or by calling Sedgwick at 800-492-5678. If your leave is approved, you will not receive occurrences for absences which are covered by the approved intermittent LOA, even if you don’t use Protected PTO to be paid for them. If you are missing work due to your own medical condition and are not eligible for an intermittent leave, or you’ve used up all of your intermittent LOA time, you may still qualify for leave as an accommodation, which you can request by calling 855-489-1600.

The longer you’re here, the more you earn.

You earn PTO with every hour you work, and even when you use PTO. The more years you work for the Company, the faster you earn it. If you have access to Protected PTO where you work, you earn both regular and Protected PTO at the same time, except temporary associates who earn Protected PTO only.

The amount you earn depends on whether you’re full-time, part-time, or temporary. City and state rules also affect how much PTO you can earn. Please see the PTO policies for rate charts specific to your work location.

PTO gives you choice and flexibility.

PTO gives you control over your time away and flexibility in how you use it. Request time off for just about anything: holidays, family time, sickness, or personal needs.

How much PTO can you use?

On February 1, the first day of the PTO plan year, you’ll have a certain number of PTO days available for use—an Annual PTO amount, plus any days you’ve carried over from the previous plan year. Unused PTO from the previous plan year may affect how much PTO you receive for the new plan year. See the PTO policy for details about PTO carryover.

PTO also works with other time-off programs like short-term disability, leave of absence, and parental and family care pay. Together, they offer support when you or a family member has a serious medical condition or for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of your child.

Questions about how to use your time? Go to Using PTO.

For all the fine print, please see the PTO policy.

The longer you’re here, the more you earn.

The Annual PTO amount you get on Feb. 1 is based on the years of service you will celebrate during the plan year and your weekly work schedule (5, 4, or 3 days a week).


Service Years	5 Day Workweek	4 Day Workweek	2 Day Workweek
Service Years	PTO Days	PTO Days	PTO Days
1	21	17	13
2	23	18	14
3-5	26	21	16
6-9	31	25	19
10-14	34	27	20
15+	36	29	22

Note: In your first year, your initial grant of PTO days is prorated based on your month of hire.

Optical/Vision

Salaried Associate Doctors of Optometry receive annual PTO in days based on the years of service celebrated during the plan year and weekly work schedule (Five, four, or three days a week). See chart above.

Walmart Health

Salaried nurse practitioners receive annual PTO in days and based on a five-day schedule. See chart above.

Salaried pharmacists

Salaried pharmacists receive PTO based on biweekly hours (also known as Base Hours) in hours.

Salaried health care professionals

	Bi-weekly Hours
Years of Service	90	84	80	79^a	72	69^a	64	59^a	56	48
	PTO Grant in Hours
0*-1	189	176	168	166	151	145	134	124	118	101
1	189	176	168	166	151	145	134	124	118	101
2	207	193	184	182	166	159	147	136	129	110
3-5	234	218	208	205	187	179	166	153	146	125
6-9	279	260	248	245	223	214	198	183	174	149
10-14	306	286	272	269	245	235	218	201	190	163
15+	324	302	288	284	259	248	230	212	202	173

*Pro-rated based on month of hire Sam’s Club Only

Hourly California salaried equivalent pharmacists with management benefits

If you are an hourly California salaried equivalent pharmacist with management benefits, you’ll receive 80 hours of PTO as a new hire. At the beginning of each plan year, your PTO balance is topped up to 80 hours if the unused PTO balance you carry over from the previous plan year is less than 80 hours. Then, you’ll earn additional PTO hours based on service hours you log (e.g., worked hours, PTO used, and benefit hours like bereavement, jury duty, and parental pay, but not disability pay or workers’ compensation) up to the maximum for your service years.


	PTO			Protected PTO			Total
Years of Service	Rate	Time to earn 1 hour	Max hours/year	Rate	Time to earn 1 hour	Max hours/year	Time to earn 1 hour	Max hours/year
0*-1	0.080769	12.38	168	n/a	n/a	n/a	12.38	168
2	0.088462	11.30	184	n/a	n/a	n/a	11.30	184
3-5	0.100000	10.00	208	n/a	n/a	n/a	10.00	208
6-9	0.119231	0.39	248	n/a	n/a	n/a	9.39	248
10-14	0.130769	7.65	272	n/a	n/a	n/a	7.65	272
15+	0.138462	7.22	288	n/a	n/a	n/a	7.22	288

*Prorated based on month of hire

Walmart Health Centers and Optical and Vision

Salaried medical professionals including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, behavioral health providers, audiologists receive PTO in days and based on a five-day schedule.
Salaried Associate Doctors of Optometry receive PTO in days as described in the “How much PTO you’ll receive” section.

OTR Driver associates

PTO gives you choice and flexibility.

With PTO, you have control over your time off and flexibility in how you use it. Take time off for just about anything: holidays, family time and personal needs, as well as unexpected time off when “life happens.” PTO you don’t use during the year will either roll over or turn into cash.

PTO also works with other time-off programs like short-term disability, leaves of absence, and parental and family care pay. Together, they offer support when you or a family member has a serious medical condition or for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of your child.

Questions about how to use your time? Go to Using PTO.

For all the fine print, please see the PTO policy.

The longer you’re here, the more you earn.

You earn PTO with every service hour you log, including on-duty hours driving and not driving, plus benefit hours. And the more years you work for Walmart, the faster you earn it.

Full-time OTR Drivers


Years of Service	PTO Hours you could earn*	Max PTO days/year
0-1	125 hours = 1 PTO day earned	21 days
2	112 hours = 1 PTO day earned	23 days
3-5	100 hours = 1 PTO day earned	26 days
6-9	83 hours = 1 PTO day earned	31 days
10-14	77 hours = 1 PTO day earned	34 days
15-19	72 hours = 1 PTO day earned	36 days
20+	63 hours = 1 PTO day earned	41 days

*Prorated based on month of hire

Part-time OTR Drivers


Years of Service	PTO Hours you could earn*	Max PTO days/year
0-1	330 hours = 1 PTO day earned	6 days
2	200 hours = 1 PTO day earned	13 days
3-5	200 hours = 1 PTO day earned	13 days
6-9	200 hours = 1 PTO day earned	13 days
10-14	200 hours = 1 PTO day earned	13 days
15-19	200 hours = 1 PTO day earned	13 days
20+	140 hours = 1 PTO day earned	18 days