Butte County County: Butte County, Population Served: 210000, Number of Employees: 2000 EMPLOYEE GROUPS Appointed Department Heads Cafeteria Plan: $0.00 + 0% Deferred Compensation: $0.00 Health Insurance: $1,207.41 Life Insurance: $3.50 Long Term Disability: $0.00 Retirement Contribution: 8.811% Retirement Pick-up: $0.00 + 7% Social Security: 6.2% Medicare: 1.45% BENEFITS Administrative Leave .2692 days per biweekly pay period (7 days per year). Auto Allowance $620/month. Bereavement Leave 40 hours of paid leave per occasion. Cell Phone Allowance $70/month. Deferred Compensation The County offers two 457 Deferred Compensation programs. Deposits into these plans are strictly voluntary and are made through a payroll deduction on a tax-deferred basis. The County does not make contributions to the employees' Deferred Compensation accounts. Disability Insurance For short-term disability, the County participates California State Disability Insurance (SDI) fund. County employees are also covered by an employee-paid long-term disability program. The long-term disability insurance benefit is 60% of the disabled employee's biweekly wage. Flexible Spending Program County employees can elect to participate in a Flexible Spending Program. This program allows employees to use pre-tax dollars to pay for certain health care and/or dependent care expenses. In addition, employees can choose to have their portion of the monthly Health Plan premium withheld from their checks on a pre-tax basis as well. Generally, employees who participate in the Flexible Spending Program have less taxes withheld for their payroll checks than if they had elected not to do so. Health Insurance Coverage under the Butte County Health Plan is for employees and their eligible dependents. Depending upon the plan selected by the employee, the County contributes up to 94% of the total cost of the complete health package, which consists of medical, vision, and dental insurance. Currently, the amount the County contributes for family coverage is $1207.41/month. For those employees who have health coverage from other sources, and who elect to not participate in the Butte County Health Plan, the County offers a monthly taxable Cash-Back allowance. The current amount of the taxable Cash-Back allowance is $373.17. Holidays 11 days/yr. Life Insurance All employees are eligible to participate in the County's group life insurance. For this employee group the amount of County-paid core coverage is $25,000, at a County cost of $3.50/month. Additionally, all employees are eligible to purchase additional insurance for themselves, their spouses, and their children. The premiums for the additional coverage are paid for by the employee through a payroll deduction. Retirement PERS 2% @ 55. The County contribution rate is currently 8.811%. The employee contribution rate is 7%. The County picks-up (pays) the employee contribution. (Note: Employees contribute 6.2% into Social Security and 1.45% into Medicare, which is matched by the County.) Special Pays $5.00/day or $50 per PP bilingual. 5% Information Systems assignment. Safety footwear $100.00/yr reimbursement. Tuition Reimbursement 1/2 of actual cost or $500/year Vacation 0-4.99 years of service = 120 hrs/yr - 5-9.99 yrs = 160 hrs/yr - 10-19.99 yrs = 200 hrs/yr - 20+ yrs = 216 hrs/yr.