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by simonswords82 2912 days ago
We give our staff anything between 25 days to 30 days paid holiday. In addition they receive 8 paid bank (aka public) holidays a year. So that's a total of between 33 and 38 paid days off.
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The USA has bank/federal holidays also (around 10/year).
Public holidays (federal or state) in the US are not obligatory for (and many are often not observed by) private employers.
Sure, but most tech companies will give you them anyways. If we are talking about what we get for half the pay in the uk, vacation isn’t it.
> Sure, but most tech companies will give you them anyways

I've yet to see any private employer in the US that gives employees every public holiday applicable in their jurisdiction; heck even public employers often don't, as federal government doesn't give state holidays in the location and state and local agencies often don't give all federal holidays.

There are only ten federal holidays. If you are working in the states, you get most of not all of them.
> There are only ten federal holidays. If you are working in the states, you get most of not all of them.

MLK, Washington's Birthday, Labor Day, and Columbus Day are particularly frequently not granted by private employers. Columbus Day and MLK are each not given by some nonfederal public employers (to my knowledge, a non-overlapping set.)