I am talking about my employment as a SWE in various private and public businesses in the US since it's the topic of this HN post. >I'd love for a $400k salary

I am talking about my employment as a SWE in various private and public businesses in the US since it's the topic of this HN post. >I'd love for a $400k salary to be a condition too, but life is full of compromises. I simply haven't seen such deals in my industry, I am not sure what your industry is, but in this particular thread the discussion is about programmers, and why they need a union to force mandatory 4 weeks off on everyone. If your industry is so bad that you cannot even trade PTO for your cash compensation then you might be better with unions, I don't know what industry that is and, obviously, I am not employed there.