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Only fools take the whole summer off, it's so expensive to go holiday during peak time.
Better is;
2 weeks in the spring
2 weeks in the summer
1 week in the autumn
1 week in the winter
1 week kept spare so you can have odd mid week days off or a Friday and a Monday.
The best jobs, absolutely cream of the crop jobs that Americans can hope for give you 2 weeks of paid vacation, and half of the time you don't get to use it because they deny your shit or give you the run around. I have never met anyone who gets more than 3 weeks, and I have known/had family in high paying corporate jobs, government positions, the secret fucking service, and a cousin who was a fucking post master. The idea of 7 weeks of leave, to an American, especially one like me who's never even had a job that offers paid leave at all, feels like so much it seems like you'd never actually be at work. 7 weeks? Out of 52? Even though I know it, I support, I advocate for it, have for years, every time it comes up, it's fucking mind blowing how incredibly unlubricated the fucking of the american worker is
Federal job lets you accrue up to 240 hours of leave to carryover to the next year ( at rates of 4/6/8 hours per two weeks accrual, depending on years of service), in addition to a flat 4 hours per pay period of sick leave (which is uncapped). This is considered god-tier amounts of PTO in the US, and its still shit compared to Europe.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/annual-leave/
Yes. Plus if you work somewhere like, say, the post office you can work most of the holidays and get another two weeks paid leave. Nine weeks paid leave after three years service. Leaves private sector people very jealous of what is otherwise a relatively atrocious job.