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How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day Observance : monday, 2 january, 2017
2. Australia Day : thursday, 26 january, 2017
3. Canberra Day : monday, 13 march, 2017
4. Good Friday : friday, 14 april, 2017
5. Easter Monday : monday, 17 april, 2017
6. Anzac Day : tuesday, 25 april, 2017
7. King's Birthday : monday, 12 june, 2017
8. Family & Community Day : monday, 25 september, 2017
9. Labour Day : monday, 2 october, 2017
10. Christmas Day : monday, 25 december, 2017
11. Boxing Day : tuesday, 26 december, 2017
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : sunday, 1 january, 2017
2. Easter Saturday : saturday, 15 april, 2017
3. Easter Sunday : sunday, 16 april, 2017