@ChrisMayLA6 while all to true as a general proposition (the exploitative nature of much 'work to live' these days) the figure for "vacation" in 2026 is wrong, at least for the UK.
Statutory entitlement to holidays and holiday pay is now 5.6 weeks (Working Time Regulation 1998, one of the better things from the Blair Labour Government). This was 4 weeks plus 1.6 weeks for public holidays.
This also applies, after a fashion even, if you have had your job re-defined by your employer as an independent contractor on a zero hours contract, but the calculation of holiday pay gets complicated and they keep revising how the calculation is done.
https://www.mha.co.uk/insights/a-brief-history-of-holiday-pay-calculations
Of course back in the day, this was called 'the lump', and we have never managed to outlaw it and in recent years has become far too common.
