answer:It’s also a Presidential election year, which more than offsets any potential gain from an extra day’s productivity in the year. Far more than offsets, in fact. EDIT: However, even most of us who work for a salary get paid by the week, meaning we get paid “hourly, but on a weekly or bi-weekly basis”. Which means that we get paid for more hours in February this year than we do in the non-leap years, but we still get paid for the hours. And since most companies’ productivity is not exactly straight-line, where every day is the equal of every other day, it would be a stretch to suggest that an extra day’s production is going to add to the annual production numbers by an exactly divisible amount. For some it might, but not many, I think.