[drakonka]

If it's anything like Sweden, working as a permanent employee for a company in the Netherlands with that salary also gets you relatively high job security, pension contributions, 6-8 weeks off a year, unlimited sick leave, sometimes a collective agreement with guaranteed pay bumps or bonuses, often additional wellness allowances, etc.

Some companies employ through a local entity which gets you some or all of those same benefits. Often that's not the case. Which is not a bad thing at all imo. It just means that $80k would probably not be high enough to be equivalent with what you'd get locally when it comes to total comp.

[Workaccount2]

Side question: Do people typically get to use all those weeks off? I get 5 weeks off, but it's incredibly difficult to still hit my deadlines if I take any days off.

[drakonka]

It took me a while to get into the habit when I first moved to Sweden, but after a couple of years I did start using all my weeks. Having a really long (4-5 week) summer vacation really really helps with recharge and coming back more fresh and productive. Some people do end up with days rolled over into next year, but there's a limit to that accumulation after a few years, so if that's happening eventually managers and leads strongly encourage you to use more of those days.

As for deadlines, that's up to the company and project management to plan for. When I first joined a Swedish company and sat in a technical planning meeting I wondered why July was completely grayed out on our shared calendar, and was promptly told that almost nobody would be here because that's the most popular summer vacation time.

[akvadrako]

That's not your problem, unless you are coming up with those deadlines yourself.

In my experience almost everybody uses their vacation days in NL.

[t0mas88]

Not sure about Sweden, but in the Netherlands it's very normal to use the full 5 weeks. I think Sweden is the same.