9/80 schedule calendar 2027

Fridays off in 2027

2027 starts and ends on a Friday, so it has 53 Fridays. Group A is off on January 1 and every 14 days after it, through December 31: 27 Fridays. Group B is off on the Fridays between, from January 8 to December 24: 26. Each group works the other's Fridays off, 8 hours.

Pay periods and hours

Federal law counts a 9/80 schedule as a compressed schedule, which for a full-time employee is an 80-hour biweekly basic work requirement scheduled for less than 10 workdays (5 U.S.C. 6121(5)). The table uses two-week periods from Sunday to Saturday, starting Sunday, January 3, 2027, so January 1 and 2 belong to the last period of 2026. Every period holds eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour Friday for each group, 80 hours with paid holidays counted. A holiday taken on a Thursday is listed with the group that takes it. Your employer's pay periods may start on another day; the 2027 biweekly payroll calendar lists paydays for any schedule.

The workweek that keeps every week at 40 hours

Counted from Sunday to Saturday, a 9/80 schedule alternates 44-hour and 36-hour weeks: four 9-hour days and the 8-hour Friday in one week, four 9-hour days in the next. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act each workweek stands on its own, so the 44-hour week owes a nonexempt employee 4 hours of overtime even though the two weeks add up to 80 (29 CFR 778.104).

The workweek can start somewhere else. It is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, and it "may begin on any day and at any hour of the day" (29 CFR 778.105). Start it halfway through the 8-hour Friday and 4 of that Friday's hours fall in each workweek, so both weeks come to 40.

Group B's weeks split the same way, a week later. Because the start of a workweek can change only when the change is meant to be permanent and not to evade overtime (29 CFR 778.105), it is set when the 9/80 schedule begins. Hours worked beyond the schedule are still counted in the week they fall in.

Federal agencies apply their own rules. For employees on a compressed schedule, overtime hours are officially ordered and approved hours of work in excess of the compressed schedule (OPM Handbook on Alternative Work Schedules).

Federal holidays on a 9/80 Friday

OPM lists four federal holidays observed on a Friday in 2027. Juneteenth, Christmas Day and New Year's Day 2028 fall on a Saturday, and a Saturday holiday is observed on the Friday before (5 U.S.C. 6103(b)). That includes New Year's Day 2028: January 1, 2028 is a Saturday, and OPM lists its observed date as Friday, December 31, 2027 (OPM federal holidays).

When a holiday falls on a nonworkday of an employee on a compressed schedule, the employee's preceding workday becomes the holiday, or the next workday when the nonworkday is a Sunday (OPM Handbook on Alternative Work Schedules; 5 U.S.C. 6103(b)). On a 9/80 schedule the group with that Friday off takes the Thursday before it, and the group working that Friday has it off with pay for its 8 scheduled hours. In 2027 that happens to group A 3 times and to group B once:

The other eight holidays of 2027 are observed from Monday to Thursday, so both groups have them off as 9-hour days. An agency may set a different day for employees on a compressed schedule when the usual one would cause an adverse agency impact (5 U.S.C. 6103(d)), and the AWS day off itself does not move (OPM "in lieu of" holidays). Private employers choose their own holidays: the FLSA does not require pay for holidays not worked (U.S. Department of Labor).

Add your group's days off to your calendar

Each group's .ics file holds its 2027 Fridays off and the Thursdays it takes for holidays, as all-day events, for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook: group A and group B. For 24-hour and 12-hour rotations, see the shift calendar. To add up a two-week card on this schedule, use the biweekly time card calculator, which counts overtime week by week.

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