Employee Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision Care
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Medical, dental and vision benefits cover employee, spouse, registered domestic partner, and dependents.
- Medical benefit offers a choice of Health Maintenance Organization and Preferred Provider Organization plans; the LAO pays up to 100 percent of the premium depending upon the plan selected.
- Delta Dental and Vision Services Plan premiums are paid 100 percent by the LAO.
Retirement Plan
Employees may join the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS)
Miscellaneous Tier 1 retirement plan. The plan provides for
a basic retirement allowance of 2 percent of salary for each year of service at age
60. This means that an employee with 25 years of service at age
60 will receive a retirement allowance equal to 50 percent (25 years x 2 percent per year) of his/her highest
36 months of compensation. Employees who choose to join CalPERS typically contribute 5 percent of their monthly salary above the first $513. The LAO contributes about 17 percent of an employee’s monthly salary.
Leave
- Vacation Leave. Full-time employees earn a minimum of seven hours per month of time off with pay which increases based on years of state service.
- Sick Leave. Full-time employees earn eight hours per month of sick leave.
- Holidays. Employees receive 11 paid holidays, plus one personal paid holiday per year.
Other Benefits
- 401K or 457K
- Compensatory time off (CTO). After a certain amount of overtime is worked, the office will grant CTO that the employee can use under specified circumstances.
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life insurance
- Legal service insurance plan
- CalPERS long-term care program
- Dependent care assistance program
- Discounted public transit passes
- Discounted state parking spaces and pre-tax payroll deductions for non-state parking spaces