Hi, Interesting discussion! The New York Times had a series of articles about all this: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/08/04/why-dont-americans-have-longer-vacations (Read the comments, they also give you insights from various countries)
Anyway, as a German living in the US, one important issue to consider is the subject of sick leave. In my experience American companies increasingly lump together sick-leave and normal time-off together into a Personal Time Off (PTO) bucket. So you may have 15 PTO days per year but you better do not catch some nasty disease :-) In Germany, as far as I understand it, you can be sick 6 weeks per disease and get paid for it (at 100%). Thus, if you catch a new disease, another 6 weeks. After each 6 weeks, your paycheck decreases somewhat. Oh and then there is the whole subject of paternity leave etc... ;-) To counter-balance things, though, the US monetary income for Software developers is higher IMO, compared to Germany - Thus, to some degree it depends on what metric is important to you. Some further reading materials: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_vac_min_vac_tim_aro_the_wor_leg_req-time-around-world-legally-required http://www.mcgill.ca/files/ihsp/WFEIFinal2007.pdf Cheers, Gunnar On Sep 2, 3:14 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <vjosulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently on leave from work, in Mauritius with my family for ten > days watching my daughters master wind and kite surfing. Meanwhile, > my addiction to computers and Java forums is driving my wife scatty... > > Anyway, while surfing (the internet) I came across this article on > leave allowances in various countries (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ > world-11139960). Being British I find the 20 day allowance about > normal (though I actually get 26 paid leave days myself). The French > figure seemed excessive but it was the American figures that were the > most shocking. No paid annual leave seems to be the norm! Is that > really true? > > How many days paid leave do other software developers normally get > from their employers? > > Vince. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
