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How many working days in year 2008?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2008.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Day after New Year's Day : Wednesday, 2 January, 2008
3. Auckland Day : Monday, 28 January, 2008
4. Waitangi Day : Wednesday, 6 February, 2008
5. Good Friday : Friday, 21 March, 2008
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 24 March, 2008
7. Anzac Day : Friday, 25 April, 2008
8. Queen's Birthday : Monday, 2 June, 2008
9. Labour Day : Monday, 27 October, 2008
10. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
11. Boxing Day : Friday, 26 December, 2008