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Fair question. I think many Americans in higher income brackets would say yes; it’s just that they’d never had the option. Ditto on a 4 day work week.

>>cpursl+(OP)
Americans with higher incomes likely have very good vacation policies.

I get 25 days per year.

>>refurb+y
What type of job?

>>refurb+y
What you call very good is almost the minimum (24) vacation days in germany plus you get public holidays ontop of which range from 10-12 (in a good year most of them are during the workweek).

Here people who have good jobs can get ~35 vacation days.

>>refurb+y
25 days a year is not a "very good" vacation policy in Europe, I'd say that would be at least 35 + public holidays.

>>refurb+y
I get 25, plus 8 bank holidays, plus an office closure for 10 days (which is technically 7 because there's 3 bank holidays during that time period) during the holiday period, and we closed for a week during Summer this year too.

>>moreli+y2
I’m very happy with 25 days plus another 13 bank holidays. That’s a total of almost 2 months off per year.

And in trade for not getting another 10 days I get 2-3x the compensation as the EU.

That’s a trade I’m happy with.

>>ghosty+h2
Right but I (and I assume others) wouldn’t trade 100-200k usd per year for 5-10 more days.

Not to mention most in that environment have plenty of flexible work arrangements as well.

I also CAN take unpaid extra days and most years do, in essence doing that trade for a better price (~1k per day), but I recognize it’s not that common in the US.