In Sweden you by law have at least five weeks of paid vacation per year. You're guaranteed to be allowed four consecutive weeks in the summer, but other than th

In Sweden you by law have at least five weeks of paid vacation per year. You're guaranteed to be allowed four consecutive weeks in the summer, but other than that it's up to you and your employer to decide when you take the rest of the days. The employer has final say, but that power is rarely used. You can save a number of vacation days from year to the next, but there's a limit to how many. Unused days are exchanged for extra pay. If you're employed on a per-hour basis you don't get paid during your vacation (but you're still allowed five weeks), but you get an extra 12.5% pay per hour to compensate this (which over a year of full-time work should be more or less the same as having paid vacation).