Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?

Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by m00x on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:18PM (#25768735)

By less than 1 month vacation, I think it's closer to 1-2 weeks/year and that's at big companies. Most of the startups will give you grief if you take more than a week of vacation on top of the holidays.

Not all engineers are at FAANG, we can't compare the average to the top tier companies.

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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by topkai22 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:05PM (#25769846)

I’m unaware of any big companies that do less then two weeks a year of vacation for their salaried employees. There might be some, but it is uncommon.

Across all workers in the U.S., the average after 5 years is 15 vacation days, with 8-10 additional holidays and a more variable amount of sick leave (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/mobile/private-industry-wo...)

Now Americans are notoriously bad about actually taking all our vacation in a year, but the limited data I see suggests that we still on average take more than 2 weeks a year.

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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by digianarchist on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:55PM (#25769125)

Can anyone name names? My US bank employer gives US workers three weeks vacation which is the same here in Canada where wages are also low.

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