This is a good summary, thank you. There is also the (non-obvious to people from other countries) reality that this is the purview of the individual States, the

This is a good summary, thank you. There is also the (non-obvious to people from other countries) reality that this is the purview of the individual States, the Federal government doesn’t have much jurisdiction here. However, the interesting fact that no States have bothered to legislate it across the entire spectrum of their very diverse politics suggests a more fundamental American view that you allude to. American PTO is insanely diverse in my experience, it varies wildly from one company to the next. You have to ask about it when you join a new company. What I think isn’t obvious, because it is not legislated, is that the variance is really high. Some companies have policies that are extremely generous even by European standards and some are extremely stingy. And then you have random things like summer hours (4 day weeks from May to September), shutting down for a couple weeks around Christmas (fully paid and separate from PTO), etc. It’s all over the map.