[NicuCalcea]

Is four and a half month's pay considered massive in the US? What do you normally get when you're made redundant?

[svantana]

This site has stats. According to it, 20 weeks is way above average.

https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

[HDThoreaun]

Id say 2 months is about normal for non tech maybe 3.5 at solid companies. This also adds a week per year at the company so plenty of people will be getting 5 months+ and $5k on top of that

[NicuCalcea]

Fair enough. It's nothing crazy by UK standards, you'd usually get your notice period paid off (2-3 months), plus another few months negotiated by your union, plus the statutory week's pay for each year worked (1.5 weeks if you're over 40). You don't normally get to keep your devices, I guess.

[acjohnson55]

Yes, it is considered generous here. I have been laid off or taken a voluntary severance 3 times and never got anywhere near 5 months.

[SoftTalker]

I got one month and unused PTO last time I was laid off.

[turtlesdown11]

its certainly not "massive"