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28 days compared to nothing (CityLab seems to be US based) is infinitive percent more :)

Yep. Reads like an american (got the exchange rates the wrong way up), so should have said get reasonable amounts of holiday.

Minimums aren't averages.

Even still, the median US worker is unlikely to earn 4-5 weeks of paid time off during a year. The lowest quarter of wage-earners are as likely as not to have no vacation leave entitlement at all (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm) [56% with paid vacation, 44% without].

The median number of vacation days for most categories of workers is about 15 (https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2017/ownership/private/...).

But most of the bottom quarter of earners are part-time workers.

I'm actually surprised that many part time employees are given paid time off at all.

>I'm actually surprised that many part time employees are given paid time off at all.

And there's the rub: it's expected over here.

Or as in Sweden, if you work hourly you usually don't get PTO. Instead you get it as cash, about 12% extra on the salary a normal worker would get.

It's not just expected, it's the law!

28 days, though 8 of them can be the standard public holidays, leaving 20. It's pro rata for part time employees, and often given as cash to people on temporary contracts.

28 isn't zero

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