What Paid Holidays Will Connecticut Employers Offer in 2023?

Every fall, CBIA surveys member companies to find out what paid holidays they will offer employees in the coming year.

The results of the latest survey reflect responses from 369 Connecticut firms.

Employers were also asked if they give employees time off for holidays not included in the survey.

No particular holiday dominated those responses, with the most common choice being floating holidays (7%).

Survey Results

• New Year’s Day Observations (Sunday, Jan. 1)
  • Friday, Dec. 30 half-day: 6%
  • Friday, Dec. 30 full-day: 14%
  • Monday, Jan. 2: 70%
  • Other: 11%

• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday (Monday, Jan. 16): 19%

• President’s Day (Monday, Feb. 20): 26%

• Good Friday (Friday, Apr. 7): 53%

• Memorial Day (Monday, May 29): 98%

• Juneteenth (Monday, June 19): 9% yes, 9% considering

• Independence Day Observation (Tuesday, July 4)
  • Both Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4: 31%
  • Tuesday, July 4: 62%
  • Facility, office closed for the week of July 4: 4%
  • Other: 3%

• Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 4): 98%

• Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Monday, Oct. 9): 17%

• Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 23): 99%

• Day after Thanksgiving (Friday, Nov. 24): 83%

• Christmas Day (Monday, Dec. 25): 99%

• Week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (Monday, Dec. 25-Friday, Dec. 29): 16% 

• If off the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, how will employees be paid?
  • Employees are required to use PTO: 31%
  • Company paid holidays: 40%
  • Mix of holidays and PTO: 8%
  • Other: 20%

Survey Demographics

Company type:

• Manufacturing: 40%
• Professional services: 16%
• Other: 10%
• Nonprofit: 8%
• Construction: 6%
• Wholesale distribution: 4%
• Retail: 4%
• Medical: 3%
• Finance: 2%
• Software/technology: 2%
• Hospitality and tourism: 1%
• Insurance: 1%
• Real estate: 1%

Company size (by number of employees):

• 1-24: 53%
• 25-74: 27%
• 75-149: 12%
• 150-249: 4%
• 250-499: 3%