US Job question
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This morning I recieved an exciting job offer from an american company! I wonder how they found my profile? Anyway due to my sickness / allergy to pollution I can't take on the opportunity :sigh: (it's either in Boston or LA!!) (In fact I'm strill trying to find a place I could live well and do some programming job at the same time.. sigh... :sigh: ) Anyway, as I was perusing through the offer I came to read that: "3 weeks vacation and 10 paid holidays" I wonder what that means '10 paid holliday' is 10 extra days on top of the 3 weeks? or are the vacation week unpaid and you have only 10 day paid? I mean can you explain what that means, I'm curious....
Most companies that I've seen have 9 or 10 holidays which are designated by the company (e.g. Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, ...) and some have 1-2 "floating holidays" which are essentially free days off that you have to use within the year (to cover themselves for non-majority religious holidays). In addition to (i.e. separate from) the holidays, they offer vacation (or "paid time off") days which vary from 2-3 weeks, though most increase that over time up to around 4 weeks if you stay with the company a long time. You should also clarify how they manage their "sick days". My current employer groups all time off from one pool (both sick and vacation). Another employer used separate pools for sick and vacation time. And another offered only 2 weeks vacation (for the first couple of years), but they offered "unlimited" sick days (though you are expected to only use them when actually sick and they might question it if you used more than the average).