Yes, but they make 2x of what most engineers in Europe make (excluding Switzerland/London).

Blue-collar workers are screwed, though.

From what I've seen, if it's not 2x London, it's close.

Junior dev here, but 3-4 weeks of vacation would be an improvement over my current 15 days...

People are reacting rather violently to 15 days is three weeks, although it isn't. Its the standard two weeks plus 5 holidays, Memorial Day, 4th Jul, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas. That's 15 days.

In my youth I worked for a place that advertised 15 days very proudly as meaning two weeks salaried vacation plus a personal day (usually Friday after thanksgiving). After all if you're salaries at a 24x7 operational company, if you want a Saturday off with guaranteed no phone calls, you need to take vacation.

> After all if you're salaries at a 24x7 operational company, if you want a Saturday off with guaranteed no phone calls, you need to take vacation.

And people put up with this?

> People are reacting rather violently to 15 days is three weeks, although it isn't

That depends on how it's counted, it may be counted the way you are but it also might not be. For instance, the standard holidays that you list do not come out of my PTO pool, which is the number of days that I was told it was when I was hired. The result being I have those days plus those five, plus the day after Thanksgiving, as time off, I just don't get to pick when those last six days are used.

15 days is 3 weeks.

Isn't 15 days 3 weeks?

Not necessarily. In my current industry if you don't work for maximum weekly work hours, saturday will be count as a work day if you literally work or not. So a week vacation is counted 6 days. Ps. Non-US

I formerly worked for an American subsidiary of a French company. When I told my friends that they gave every employee a minimum of 20 days off, their jaws dropped.

Plus holidays?

15 days is 3 weeks of vacation...

15 days is 3 weeks.

All this talk of 35 vs 45 hours a week makes me sad that medical residents are clocking 80 hours.

that's just the theoretical max. residents in almost every program except family and maybe radiology are 100+