Culture

Who Gets Columbus Day Off

Our quick questionnaire will help you figure it out.
Pew Research Center

Still confused about whether you have Monday off for Columbus Day? CityLab (with information from the Pew Research Center) has created this brief questionnaire to help you figure it out:

“Yes.” Well, aren’t you lucky. According to Pew, state employees working in 23 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico get a paid holiday on Columbus Day. Fun fact: Columbus Day is observed the Friday after Thanksgiving in Tennessee “at the governor’s discretion.”