60 scheduled hours for salaried positions.

I've never seen anything this egregious. Has anyone else? This would be a ridiculous ask, unless they bumped the salary significantly to compensate.

I was asking a Norwegian guy who was talking about his 6 weeks of vacation if his 30 days off included national holidays. When I was hiring people, we'd start with two weeks of PTO (10 days) plus 10 holidays plus 5 sick days (adding one day of PTO per year, capping at 4 weeks of PTO) at about $150k.

So a new hire would start with 25 days they could take "off" ... which isn't that far off their 30 days (assuming it's not actually 40 days including national holidays) I don't know if the Europeans have an equivalent to Sick Days. I know some employers don't give Sick Days and you have to use PTO if you're ill, but they're assholes for it.

Anyway; there are plenty of employers in the US who do offer significant benefits, insurance, and vacation. People always point to "free" healthcare and vacation as being infinitely better than the US system, but at three to six times the salary, I wonder.

Yes, cost of living etc., but my stance has always been to make as much money as you possibly can, as quickly as you can, so you can be financially independent and not beholden to some jerk of a boss ever again.