What kind of employee benefits do you get?

[Sheldonrs]

Medical, dental, eye coverage

2 weeks of vacation.

Most holidays off.

12 sick days

3 personal days

monthly drawings for gift cards for using alternate methods of transportation.

Loving my job and the people I work with.

Discounted gym membership.

Compressed work schedule every other week so I get every other Friday off.

[Shangri-laschild]

Summer schedule is almost here! It means that I work 4 days instead of 5 and I work for 8 hours and 45 minutes. While this only adds up to 35 hours and 45 minutes a week, I'm still getting paid for 40 hour work weeks.

[BlackIronCrown]

There might be a post like this already, but I couldn't find it.

So, what kind of benefits do you get, both official and unofficial.

I only get the official.
- full-on health insurance, dental, vision, mental health at a highly, HIGHLY discounted rate, aw yeah.
- 17 days of vacation per year
- 3 sick days per year
- 2 "personal use" days per year
- a 10% shift diff bonus
- full authority to tell a SC where to stick it (politely) and to call back in the morning
- yearly salary increase of 5%

This job is the shit, yo.

[El Barto]

The old retail job:

Full Time Employees:

• 70 Hours of vacation time a year (vacation time expires at the end of the year)
• 8 hours of holiday pay if you don't work the holiday
• If you do work the holiday you get the 8 hours plus you get time and a half for what ever you worked that day (except Christmas which is double)
• Decent health benefits
• Good prescription benefits
• Dental & Vision

Part Time:

• Time and a half for working on a holiday (double for Christmas)

All Employees:

• 20% discount on name brand merch
• 30% discount on the store brand and on non-store brand merch that's exclusively sold by the company

The current state job:

• up to 30 vacation days (vac days don't expire, earn 1/2 day per pay period)
• up to 150 sick days (sick days don't expire, earn 1/2 day per pay period)
• 5 personal days a year
• Good health and prescription benefits
• Dental & Vision
• 3 or 4% raise on on the anniversary of your hire date and a 3 or 4% raise for all employees at the beginning of each fiscal year (% depends on the current contract the union has with the state), so I'll get a raise in December and another one in April.
• paid holidays off
• weekends off
• good pension plan
• What dress code?

[Kiwi]

offical
- 4 weeks holiday
- free espresso, biscuits, crackers, butter, milk, marshmellows, 5 types of tea in our kitchens with ketchup and soya sauce in the fridges
- discounted dry cleaning
- friday treats every week (usually a chocolate bar or soft drink)
- monthly end of month drinks with snacks
- birthday party for each department for every birthday
- free food for all day meetings
- taxi chits for any shift that takes you into overtime
- casual fridays
- free business shirts 2 a year

unoffical
- any stationary I need
- time off for doc/dentist visits
- flexible shift changes
- lunches on my bosses credit card
- free coffee/food from the cafe downstairs
- free food from the store cupboards
- free merchandise from our cupboard, and believe me we have EVERYTHING from wine to umbrellas to lego to sports bags to luggage. you name it I have one....
- relaxed atmostphere

[Reyneth]

Official:
- good/great insurance at a good price
- a health center at the main building that can take care of most routine things - you usually can get an appointment in a week or less for $15 if you have insurance
- employer matching on the 401(k) - 100% of your first 1% and half after up to 5% of your salaray
- shift differentials if you work up to 7pm/midnight or weekends (my shift diff is 10%)
- well-equipped workout rooms in various buildings - two huge ones that you can use for $10/paycheck or a smaller one by my building that is $5

- there are massages for like $10/30 minutes, but haven't been able to participate
- annual "wellness checks" with free cholesterol/glucose etc screenings
- annual summer event - up until this year a local amusement park was rented out the Saturday after it closed for the year - free to get in, cheap for guests, and free non-alcoholic drinks all day. Sadly, that park has permanently closed but I think this year's event will be a weekend at the ballpark - tying into our new sponsorship deal. meh.

- annual "year end" parties for each main department. Mine had great food and awesome door prizes although I didn't get lucky.
- every group has a budget each month - mine went to the racetrack last summer, then in the winter we had contests with $$ prizes
- when our department does well, they cater in food - usually every 2-3 months
- recognition for anniversaries - company or employee ones. Usually with nifty little gifts
- great employee referral rewards system
- company-matched donations to charities


Anyone want to come work for my company? I talked to a friend of a friend when I was starting the hiring process and she told me about half of this stuff and I was just and knew it was worth whatever work it would take to get hired.

[technical.angel]

Pays 100% employee only premiums for Health insurance

Dental at a reasonable cost ($24 a month)

7% of annual salary contributed to retirement.

Paid Holidays

Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day and Friday after Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Eve through New Years Day
One Personal Day

Cafeteria plan, using pre-tax dollars.

Employees, and/or spouses, and/or their dependents may enroll for a course or courses at no or reduced tuition cost.* The employee must have completed a one year period of continuous full-time employment immediately prior to the beginning of any graduate level class; or a three month probationary period of continuous full-time employment immediately prior to the beginning of any undergraduate level class.

1.5 days Paid time off per month. (1.75 year after next)

1/2 day long term sick per month.Use of Long Term Sick Days may begin on the sixth consecutive work day absence due to illness, injury, or other disability. The maximum accrual is 90 days.

Among the unofficial, MS OSs and Office apps free during my employement. Plenty of online time.

[SubwayGirl]

5% of Sales
3 Weeks paid vacation
2 paid holidays (Christmas and Thanksgiving) those are the only
2 days we are closed
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance Plan
Disability Plan
401k 3% match
Free uniforms
Free meals while working