30 days here in brazil per year. No theoretical limits on sick days as long as you're really sick, but after 15 days in the hospital, the government pays you instead of your company (at a progressively reduced scale, of course, if you make lots of money, it is just fair that the government should need to help you less than someone who makes minimum wages).

One thing which is important to clarify is that in Brazil, once you take your vacation, it gets "spent" during the whole period that you are off, including weekends and eventual holidays.

In Europe (or at least a good part of it) vacation is "spent" only on workdays, not weekends or holidays (which is fairer, you wouldn't be working on these days).

So in Sweden, where you get 25 days compared to Brazil's 30, you actually get roughly one week more vacation per year. This is not evident at a first glance just by comparing numbers.

This is super strange. Does Brazil force people to take vacation contiguously? What prevents one from taking Monday-Friday off and then the next Monday-Friday off? What if you want to take Thursday and Friday off and then spend the weekend vacationing - how many vacation days does that take?

It "works" because, legally speaking, it's the employer who decides when you can take vacation. Apart from some edge cases, the employer has the option to give your full vacation in one go but it also has the option to give it to you in two different periods (at most). No period may be smaller than 10 days. They have to notify you of your vacation period at least 30 days in advance.

In practice it really depends where you work.

In some jobs you will have a lot of latitude, and the employer will let you freely choose and only veto it if it's really disruptive (like everybody else in the team leaving at the same time). This is what I had experienced, working in IT.

I suspect that in some lines of work, like the service industry, you might be totally out of luck and have zero choice on the matter.

That makes a lot of sense - thanks for the explanation!

In Sweden we have 25 paid days off, and we get 30 days at my job (in addition to regular holiday days). On top of that we have a ridiculous number of parental leave days (if you have kids).

In the Netherlands some/many people work 40 hours on a 36 hour contract, resulting in almost 10 weeks of paid vacation as well. It's worth a lot to me.

Given that teachers with summer break I doubt it in itself. Although that level of generosity usually has a cost, perhaps logistical passed on or factored in.

Like expecting longer "on hours" or a bit lower pay in exchange for the benefits. Of course as always it could be circumstances which give it cheaper or "free" like if there are down times where there isn't much meaningful work available.

UK here, I get 25 days of annual leave, plus another 4 mandatory days at Christmas and New Year, making a total of 29 days. I think 28 days is the legal minimum for a full-time employee, and it's very rare for companies to offer more than they have to.

(At a fortune 500 company)

I negotiated 20 days vacation starting (or one month). Plus, 5 days carry over. At 5 years that number increases to 30 days (or six weeks).

I also get 5 sick days and get 8 weeks paternity leave.

Honestly, I take probably 2 months off a year in two week increments.

I realize I got an above average offer, but as a new grad I'll be getting 25 days a year starting out, up to 30 days after 5 years with the company. Not a FAANG company but a tech company backed by a Fortune 500 company.

in Germany, you are entitled to 20 days paid leave anually by law, plus most companies throw another 5 to 10 days.

At least dir me, 40h/week =30 days holiday.

Working in it for 10years always had those conditions in any job.

If you are working on Saturdays too, you get 24 days annually, but if you are working 5 days per week, it is 20 annually.