I think the practice of allowing people to buy vacation days is inexcusable. The people who often need time off the most are the ones that cannot afford to buy them, and companies who do this usually limit the amount of days offered off the bat. Prove me wrong.

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Let’s start from unlimited sick days first like every civilized country

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Timely! I just saw a great job opportunity then I noticed the line about paying for additional PTO at the start of the year. I couldn't click out fast enough. I can think of zero reasons why I want to pay my employer to pay me for taking days off. The math simply is not mathing.

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I think it's a matter of choice. If you already get 5 weeks of PTO, a company allowing you to buy 10 additional days would allow you to take 7 weeks off. Thay wouldn't scare me off from applying - they are giving optionality.

As someone else mentioned, if they are giving you 1 week of vacation, and then saying you can buy more - I agree about running away as fast as possible.

When EY had defined PTO and accrued days, they allowed us to buy an additional 5 or 10 days on top of what we got (between 3 and 5 weeks).

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I have no problem with people “buying” time off as a concept, but I would be concerned about balancing it so employees on the lower end of the salary spectrum have a fair opportunity to receive the same benefit. I need to research this a bit. Sounds like an interesting PTO approach.

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If an employer does not offer the desired PTO, negotiate for it.

I think it's just the way of things. You have to pay for everything. Now, if you're getting less than a week of PTO that's one thing, but you're essentially paying for benefits when you take time off that's not PTO, right? I feel the main thing is what's the company's baseline.

If this is creating inequities I would first suggest the company revisit their time off practices across all pay grades and roles.

In my experience, the cost to buy PTO is proportionate to your salary. I had the option to purchase at a prior employer, I was not making much money at the time but found it helpful to have as a safety net since I have kids. And any days bought that I did not use were then refunded back to me at the end of year.

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