UC Berkeley's benefits package for career employees is one of the best you'll find anywhere. You'll feel secure working here because you'll know that not only are you making a contribution to a University with a worthwhile mission, you are joining an organization that makes a contribution to you — a contribution that supports you and your family and loved ones — in the form of health and welfare benefits and time off. Our retirement plans are outstanding as well. In fact, many UC Berkeley employees feel that the retirement package and other benefits provide them with something really valuable — peace of mind.

So what do we offer? A comprehensive, flexible package of insurance options, so that you can select the kind of coverage that fits your lifestyle and your life-stage needs, and a retirement program that includes both pension and tax-deferred contribution plans that maximize your savings potential.

Our insurance coverage goes way beyond the basics. Some plans, such as medical, give you a wide variety of options to choose from. Options for insurance coverage include:

• Medical, Dental & Vision
  
• Life — including Supplemental Life & Dependent's Life
  
• Disability
  
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  
• Business Travel Accident
  
• Legal Expense
  
• Automobile and Homeowner/Renter

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Retirement — You're in the Driver's Seat!
Our retirement plan is designed to help you ensure that your "Golden Years" live up to their name, by giving you a solid financial foundation and lots of flexibility so you can make your own decisions about your investments. In addition to a generous defined benefit pension plan — which provides retirement income based on age, years of service, and salary level at time of retirement — we offer an impressive array of additional first-rate investment products designed to help you achieve your goals for future financial security. These include:

• Defined Contribution Plan (both pre-tax and after-tax accounts)
  
• Tax-Deferred 403(b) Plan

Within these plans there are a variety of options that you can choose from, so you can adapt your investment portfolio to suit your objectives and financial needs.

Find Out More! Because we offer different kinds of employment — full-time regular career, limited, contract, and temporary positions — and because our staff is covered by a variety of personnel policies and union contracts, the benefits package varies according to position type and policy/contract. You can find out more specifics — for both insurance and retirement plans — at the UC Office of the President website.

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Holidays, Vacation & Sick Leave
We offer 13 holidays per year, along with competitive vacation and sick leave. How much vacation and sick leave you earn depends upon the type of employment arrangement and what personnel policy or union contract you are covered by. Full-time career employees usually earn 10 hours of vacation and one sick day a month. You can find out more here. In addition, career employees can receive release time for participating in approved career development activities.

Work-Life Balance
We know how important it is to find the right balance between work and the rest of your life. We have a number of options for making sure that you find the balance that fits you, such as telecommuting and flexible work arrangements. Explore the ways that UC Berkeley encourages work-life balance.

Perks Perks Perks
Our benefits package and commitment to work-life balance are outstanding, but that isn't the end of the story. There are lots of perks when you work at a dynamic educational institution like Berkeley — so many it's hard to keep up with them.

Employees get free admission to UC Berkeley Museums, free use of our world-class library, and discounts on Cal Performances tickets, Hertz Hall concerts, transportation, Strawberry Canyon Recreation Area, sporting events, and many University Extension courses. Check out staff discounts.

In addition, many services are available either at a small fee or free of charge. Need to find a place to live? Check out the housing listings available to faculty and staff at our University Housing Office. Need to talk to somebody about personal or work-related issues? CARE Services will provide you counseling. Need to work out? Take a class, swim some laps, or lift some weights at the Recreational Sports Facility. Learn more about some of the UC Berkeley perks.

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