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66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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137 points pg_1234 | 1 comments | 26 Aug 23 08:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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unmole ◴[26 Aug 23 09:35 UTC] No.37271099[source]▶
Did the survey ask if they wanted a pay cut to match European style wages?
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pjmlp ◴[26 Aug 23 09:45 UTC] No.37271153[source]▶
Reaching 50 years old, never got this American complaint about our salaries.

The whole package is what matters.

We work to live, not live to work.

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zer0tonin ◴[26 Aug 23 09:54 UTC] No.37271207[source]▶
I think Americans also are quite delusional about how low the European salaries are. Getting six figures in Europe isn't particularly hard anymore.
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emptysongglass ◴[26 Aug 23 10:17 UTC] No.37271378[source]▶
I am European: our wages are much, much lower than our American tech counterparts, without taxes double, with taxes we're on average making a third of them. And that's same cost of living.
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zer0tonin ◴[27 Aug 23 12:45 UTC] No.37282174[source]▶
It's absolutely not the same cost of living.
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emptysongglass ◴[29 Aug 23 10:17 UTC] No.37305506[source]▶
I don't know where you're living but in Copenhagen, yes it is, 100% the same COL as LA or Seattle.
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1. zer0tonin ◴[29 Aug 23 15:03 UTC] No.37308975[source]▶
Copenhagen is probably one of the most expensive city in Europe and hardly representative of the continent as a whole. Even then, a quick Google search estimates that cost of live in Copenhagen is 15-25% lower than Seattle/LA, without even accounting for the absurd american healthcare costs.