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    As a European it makes me proud to get a direct shout out from Linus 🫢🏻

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It's definitely not great here at all, though I'd say it's a bit different for professional software developers (who probably make up the bulk of contributors), since that kind of job tends to give you better benefits. In my experience, it's typical to either have unlimited PTO (that you may or may not be able to take, admittedly, though I've never had an issue with that), or at least a couple weeks of vacation a year. I've never worked anywhere as a software engineer where I had to really even account for sick time at all. I just tell my team I'm sick and that's about it.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

    In the US, because the minimum required by law is so low, the actual distribution of vacation days varies a lot from employer to employer.

    This chart, updated annually, shows the average by length of service time: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employee-benefits/paid-leave-sick-vacation-days-by-service-requirement.htm

    Seems like the average for people in the private sector with 1 year is 7 days sick, 11 days vacation.

    This fact sheet, as of 2021, breaks down the details a bit more: https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/paid-vacations.htm

    Table 1 breaks it down pretty well, with people at the 1 year mark hovering mostly between 1-3 weeks, people at the 5 year mark mostly between 2-4 weeks, and people with 10 years at 3+ weeks.

    People with government jobs, which is about 15% of the workforce and about 20 million workers, tend to get better benefits, including paid time off.