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How many working days in year 1994?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1994 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day Observance : Monday, 3 January, 1994
2. Australia Day : Wednesday, 26 January, 1994
3. Canberra Day : Monday, 14 March, 1994
4. Good Friday : Friday, 1 April, 1994
5. Easter Monday : Monday, 4 April, 1994
6. Anzac Day : Monday, 25 April, 1994
7. King's Birthday : Monday, 13 June, 1994
8. Labour Day : Monday, 3 October, 1994
9. Christmas Day Observance : Monday, 26 December, 1994
10. Boxing Day Observance : Tuesday, 27 December, 1994

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Easter Saturday : Saturday, 2 April, 1994
3. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 3 April, 1994
4. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1994