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How many working days in year 2018?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2018 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2018.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2018
2. Australia Day : Friday, 26 January, 2018
3. Canberra Day : Monday, 12 March, 2018
4. Good Friday : Friday, 30 March, 2018
5. Easter Monday : Monday, 2 April, 2018
6. Anzac Day : Wednesday, 25 April, 2018
7. Reconciliation Day : Monday, 28 May, 2018
8. King's Birthday : Monday, 11 June, 2018
9. Labour Day : Monday, 1 October, 2018
10. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2018
11. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2018

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter Saturday : Saturday, 31 March, 2018
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 1 April, 2018