Leave-accruing academic personnel, USPS and TEAMS employees are eligible for ten paid holidays each year. All full-time leave-accruing academic personnel, TEAMS and USPS employees earn eight hours of holiday pay. Part-time employees are entitled to holiday time in proportion to their FTE. Please do not submit leave requests for holidays – holidays are automatically entered into PeopleSoft.
2026 Holidays
- New Year’s Day – Thursday, January 1
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday – Monday, January 19
- Memorial Day – Monday, May 25
- Independence Day (observed) – Friday, July 3 (since July 4, 2026, is a Saturday)
- Labor Day – Monday, September 7
- UF Homecoming – TBA
- Veterans Day – Wednesday, November 11
- Thanksgiving – Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27
- Christmas – Friday, December 25