Staff employees begin accruing vacation time off immediately upon hire or on the date of promotion to an eligible position. Your vacation accrual is based on your length of service with Chipotle.
Years of Uninterrupted Service
Bi-Weekly Vacation Accrual
Maximum Yearly Vacation Accrual
Staff employees generally receive 40 hours of Sick Time at the beginning of every year. Some locations have mandated sick leave laws that are different than Chipotle’s standard policy. If you work in a location with mandated sick leave laws, you will accrue and may use Sick Time based on those laws.
Unused vacation time is not paid out upon termination of employment unless required by state regulations. Unused sick time is never paid out upon termination.
Vacation and Sick policies allow for time-off requests of up to 8 hours in a day* and 40 hours in a week** when combined with worked time. Time-off requests that are outside of policy will be adjusted accordingly.
*Vacation and Floating Holiday are capped at 8 hours a day, and sick time is capped at 8 hours a day unless mandated by your state.
**Apprentices and CA Managers are capped at 50 hours in a week when worked time is combined with PTO.
We’re happy to extend the following paid holidays to Staff employees.
Holiday
Date Observed
In addition to paid holidays, we’re happy to provide Staff employees with one floating holiday each year. This floating paid day off can be taken at your discretion with manager approval.
Staff employees who achieve 10 years of uninterrupted service will be provided with 8 weeks of paid time off (subject to approval and business needs).
