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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I think it also depends on your situation. I am looking to have kids in the next few years and the feds have no maternity leave or short term disability. If you switched to a job that had either it would be a huge advantage. I figure if I had a baby I would have to take 8 weeks LWOP for each since I don't have much sick leave saved up. [/quote]

On the flip side, when I had a baby, I was able to take 4 months paid leave (combo of sick, annual, and advance annual) as well as another month of LWOP with nothing but support from management. Could easily have taken another month of lwop. Not all private sector jobs are tolerant of 6 month maternity leaves.

Some private sector jobs are great, some aren't. My husband worked for 4 different private companies before going fed and not one of them offered any kind of 401K match. All of them started at 2 weeks vacation, with no ability to roll days over from year to year. They did all however pay 100% of medical insurance (for employee only, family plans were not free). Anyway, my point is that I don't think there's a magic number that holds true for all jobs--I think you have to evaluate each job individually--benefits, commute, expected hours, how interesting the work is, etc.

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