[b3ing]

Small companies, 0 PTO for a year and 5 holidays then 5 PTO days after a year.

Big companies offer more days.

If you are a contractor 0 PTO days and Holidays mean you don’t get paid.

Yes I’m in the US.

[thorin]

Interested, in the US if you want to go on holiday will companies be ok with you taking unpaid time off? For instance in the UK I get 25 days paid, then the bank holidays we have (8 days I think) but when I asked they were ok for me to take some unpaid leave if required as well. The biggest problem I have is that if you don't take the paid days you tend to lose them at the end of the year.

[b3ing]

Some companies are ok with that. But smaller companies don’t pay that well. You can make more money in the US but everything costs more, but if you are good at saving it can be worth it. But of course all your savings will be milked by healthcare when you get old. I plan on retiring elsewhere.

Keep in mind every company has different setups, there is no national law saying you get any PTO or holidays, maybe some states have that but I don’t know all the laws in all 50 states.

[apothegm]

That’s awful. The worst I’ve had in the US, even with tiny companies, was 10 days combined vacation and sick time, plus bank holidays.