How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2008.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 20 March, 2008
3. Good Friday : Friday, 21 March, 2008
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 March, 2008
5. General Prayer Day : Friday, 18 April, 2008
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 12 May, 2008
8. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
9. Boxing Day : Friday, 26 December, 2008
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 March, 2008
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 11 May, 2008