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I've had a hybrid role for the past 4 years where I get unlimited sick days (well 14 really until fmla kicked in), 3 weeks of vacation, 3 personal days. I am also given the week after Xmas off. if my toddlers are sick I can work at home with them. Interviewing w fortune 500 that offers 15 pto days that have to use for sick days too.Strictly in office job 9-5 and dress bus.prof. These bad benefits? Outdated culture?I am a seasoned professional. Seems tough.
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That is true. Usually we all have paid health insurance, 30 dd leave per year (+ convertible overtime, if you charge it).
However much lower wages and in general much higher taxes, so from a money perspective there is I believe not that huge difference.
However, in terms of quality of life I would never switch the EU with US or other countries
It really depends on what your benefits are in the US. As someone that just moved from the US to Austria, my benefits are not better. The pay is significantly lower and firms seem to rely on government provided benefits.
I’m in consulting at a B4 firm and with firms being so competitive across consulting and tech in the US, I didn’t realize how spoiled I was before. I think if you’re a high earner in tech or consulting in the US, then benefits and pay in Europe is difficult to stomach.
As an example, public healthcare is great, but since I’m still traveling for work and have a demanding client work, I ended up needing to get private healthcare which costs me €150/month… I waited over 3 hours to a see a GP once and that broke me. Also as a woman, fertility benefits are not a thing and while mat leave is long (1-2 years), you get max €1,900/mo if you take one year. It’s much lower if you take two years. Since my mat leave in the US would have been fully paid, I would rather have taken 6 month fully paid when I was making over $200k/year, then take some unpaid leave. Also paternity leave hasn’t caught on — it’s basically one month unpaid in Austria.
Agreed 100%
But you also get your pay cut in half, expensive health insurance and shit GP. No such corporate benefits imo compared with the US. I’m in Netherlands
In Germany: 20 days holidays is the minimum by law, and unless your company is cheap, you generally get 30 days. And you actually do take those days. So from that perspective is great. I've read that PTO in the US includes sick leave, here that's completely separate and you just don't go to work when you're sick.
As to other benefits, that's very company-dependent, so I can just give you examples from my job: additional health and travel insurance (apart from the mandatory 'public' health insurance), gym subscription, bike leasing, training budget. From people I know: gym subscription, training budget, discount cards for the trains, German language courses.
oh and I forgot the best benefit: flexible working, i.e. we can do Home-Office as much as we want, only required to go for very rare client meetings, and you can also work from another EU country for a certain period of time, I think something like 1-3 months max.
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In the US, everything in company dependent unfortunately. As an example, my company has unlimited sick time on top of 25 days of vacation. and you don’t need a doctors note unless it exceeds two weeks or something. We have remote working, gym memberships, fertility benefits and family planning support (adoption, etc), mental health benefits, retirement saving contribution matching (401k) and investment support, private healthcare that includes dental (some companies cover fully, some subsidize), bring your dog to work, monetary bonuses given peer to peer, etc and some companies have privately owned transportation to/from work, gyms, barbers, dry cleaners, restaurants, etc on campus (at the office) that are available for no charge or highly subsidized.
From my experience working in the US, Germany, and Austria, the US company benefits / perks can not be beat if you’re at a competitive tech / consulting firm.