UK: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights "Almost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid hol

UK: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights "Almost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave)." So 28 days. Personally I've usually had about 25 days + bank holidays in contracts as standard (i.e. before negotiation), so 33 days in total. The main distinction though is that because we don't have this 'health insurance tied to work' thing going on, it's at least theoretically possible for a median wage earner who hasn't loaded themselves up with debt to take a decent amount of time off by just leaving their job. Whether they actually do it doesn't matter - there's at least the mental release valve of knowing you can quit. In the US it sounds like you could get away with that as a healthy 20 year old otherwise you'd be playing the lottery.