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Minimum-wage rankings depend on legal coverage, hours, exemptions, taxes and prices. This guide separates statutory floors from collective-bargaining wages, living wages and purchasing-power-adjusted comparisons.

Austria mandates 30 days of statutory annual leave plus 13 public holidays — among the highest total paid leave entitlements on earth. France requires 30 working days. The United States is the only wealthy country with no federal paid vacation mandate. Here are the countries with the most generous paid leave.

Workers in Cambodia average 2,456 hours per year — among the longest in the world. That's compared to 1,349 in Germany. The difference between the most and least worked nations is more than a full year of extra work. Here's where people work most, least, and why the gap has grown.