Annual depart hack: Double your holidays with public vacation trick | USAEMALL.com

Most Aussies get 20 days of annual leave a year – but a hack could give you a much longer stretch off work by making the most of public holidays.

Timing is the key to help you more than double your time away from your job. Here’s how you can benefit from holidays like Australia Day and Easter as well as changing days off around the country.

These numbers are based on full-time workers who work weekdays.

How to make the most of Australia Day

You can turn four days of leave into a nine-day break over January 26 with some careful planning.

• January 24-25: Weekend

• January 26: Public holiday

• January 27-30: Annual leave

• January 31-February 1: Weekend

How to make the most of Easter

You can double your leave here, turning eight days of annual leave into a massive 16-day break.

• March 28-29: Weekend

• March 30-April 2: Annual leave

• April 3: Public holiday

• April 4-5: Weekend

• April 6: Public holiday

• April 7-10: Annual leave

• April 11-12: Weekend

How to make the most of Christmas

Does the idea of a 16-day break over Christmas appeal? Here’s how you can do it only using seven days of leave.

• December 19–20: Weekend

• December 21–24: Annual leave

• December 25: Public holiday

• December 26–27: Weekend

• December 28: Public holiday

• December 29–31: Annual leave

• January 1: Public holiday

• January 2–3: Weekend

There are also state-based public holidays which can be used with your leave to guarantee some long breaks.

How to make the most of other public holidays

June 8 is the King’s Birthday in the ACT, NSW, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria and four days can become nine off work by taking June 9-12 off.

October 5 is Labour Day in NSW, the ACT, and SA, and the King’s Birthday in Queensland.

By taking October 6-9 as annual leave, you can turn four days of leave into nine.