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This article provides a high-level, client-facing overview of mandatory paid sick and paid leave accrual requirements across U.S. jurisdictions. Information is organized by state and includes applicable local ordinances where relevant. The details presented—such as accrual rates, carryover rules, balance limits, and waiting periods—reflect the current compliance matrix configuration. For implementation and ongoing compliance, clients should validate eligibility thresholds (including employer-size requirements) and effective dates with their legal or compliance advisors.

AK

  • Alaska Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Carryover: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Max balance: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Max yearly usage: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: No waiting period

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

AZ

  • Arizona Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours 15+ EE's

    • Carryover: 40 hours 15+ EE's

    • Max balance: 40 hours 15+ EE's

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours 15+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

CA

  • State of California Paid Sick Leave (Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 5 days/40 hours (whichever is greater)

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 5 days/40 hours (whichever is greater)

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Berkley Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 72 hours - 25+ EE's

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 72 hours - 25+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Los Angeles Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 48 hours

    • Carryover: 80 hours*

    • Max balance: 80 hours*

    • Max yearly usage: 48 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Oakland Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 72 hours - 10+ EE's

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 72 hours - 10+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • San Diego Earned Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 80 hours

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • San Francisco Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 72 hours - 10+ EE's

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Santa Monica Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 72 hours - 26+ EE's

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • West Hollywood Paid Time Off

    • Accrual rate: .047 per 1 worked*

    • Max accrual: 96 hours

    • Carryover: 96 hours

    • Max balance: 96 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 96 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 6 months of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

CO

  • State of Colorado: Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 48 hours

    • Carryover: 48 hours

    • Max balance: 48 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 48 hours

    • Waiting period for use: No waiting period

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

CT

  • Connecticut Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 120 hours worked

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

DC

  • D.C. Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act (ASSLA)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 37 worked - 100+ EE's

    • Max accrual: 1 hour per 37 worked - 3 days

    • Carryover: 1 hour per 37 worked - 3 days

    • Max balance: 1 hour per 37 worked - 3 days

    • Max yearly usage: 1 hour per 37 worked - 3 days

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

IL

  • Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (PLAWA)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 40 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Chicago Paid Leave Ordinance (CPO)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 35 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 16 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 35 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 80 hours*

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 60 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 30 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

MA

  • Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

MD

  • Maryland Healthy Working Families Act

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 64 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 64 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 106 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

ME

  • Maine Earned Paid Leave Law

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 40 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: None - effective 9/24/2025

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 120 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

MI

  • Michigan Earned Sick Time

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: nan

    • Carryover: 72 hours - 10+ EE's

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: 72 hours - 10+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 120 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

MN

  • Minnesota Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST)

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 48 hours

    • Carryover: 48 Hours

    • Max balance: 80 Hours

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: nan

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

MO

  • Missouri Paid Sick Leave Law

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Carryover: 80 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 56 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: No waiting period

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

NE

  • Nebraska Paid Sick Leave Law

    • Accrual rate: After 80 hours of work, then 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 56 hours - 20+ EE's

    • Carryover: 56 hours - 20+ EE's

    • Max balance: 56 hours - 20+ EE's

    • Max yearly usage: 56 hours - 20+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: No waiting period

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

NJ

  • New Jersey Earned Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 120 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

NM

  • New Mexico Healthy Workplaces Act

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: nan

    • Carryover: 64 hours

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: 64 hours

    • Waiting period for use: No waiting period

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

NV

  • Nevada Paid Leave Law

    • Accrual rate: 0.01923 hours per hour worked

    • Max accrual: None

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: None

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: nan

NY

  • New York State Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours - < 100 EE's;
      56 hours - 100+ EE's

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours < 100 EE's
      56 hours - 100+ EE's

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours < 100 EE's
      56 hours - 100+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 30 hours of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

OR

  • Oregon Sick Time

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 Hours

    • Carryover: 40 Hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Portland Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 80 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: nan

    • Begin accruing: nan

PA

  • Philadelphia Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 40 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 72 hours - 15+ EE's

    • Carryover: Unlimited

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours 15+ EE's

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

RI

  • Rhode Island Healthy and Safe Families and Workplaces Act

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 35 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days for new EE's
      180 days for Temp EE's
      150 days for Seasonal EE's

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

VA

  • Virginia Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

VT

  • Vermont Earned Sick Time Law

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 52 worked

    • Max accrual: 40 hours

    • Carryover: 40 hours

    • Max balance: 40 hours

    • Max yearly usage: 40 hours

    • Waiting period for use: 1 year of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

WA

  • Washington State Paid Sick Leave

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 40 worked

    • Max accrual: nan

    • Carryover: 40 Hours

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Seattle Paid Sick and Safe Time (PSST) Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 30 worked

    • Max accrual: nan

    • Carryover: 72 Hours

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment

  • Tacoma Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

    • Accrual rate: 1 hour per 40 worked

    • Max accrual: nan

    • Carryover: 40 Hours

    • Max balance: nan

    • Max yearly usage: nan

    • Waiting period for use: 90 days of employment

    • Begin accruing: First day of employment