The Office of Personnel Management on Monday said that most federal employees will receive an extra few hours of paid annual leave in 2023, thanks to a quirk in this year’s calendar of pay periods.

Use annual leave or lose it, OPM says Employees -- and ... wrote that 2011 is "unusual" because the end of the federal leave year and the calendar year both fall on Dec. 31.

You can make it a 10-day break by using just four days of your annual leave. Take off either 25-28 March or 2-5 April. You can also get two weeks off for Easter while only taking eight days of leave.