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How many working days in year 2014?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2014 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2014.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2014
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 17 April, 2014
3. Good Friday : Friday, 18 April, 2014
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 21 April, 2014
5. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2014
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 29 May, 2014
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 9 June, 2014
8. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2014
9. St Stephen's Day : Friday, 26 December, 2014

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 20 April, 2014
2. Constitution Day : Saturday, 17 May, 2014
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 8 June, 2014