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The City of Germantown offers competitive salaries and an excellent benefits program for full-time employees including:
Health Insurance
Begins on the 61st day of employment. Spouses are ineligible if they are offered coverage elsewhere:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Prescriptions, including mail-order
Wellnet has partnered with Healthcare Blue Book (HCBB) to host the machine-readable files. These files can be accessed through this link -https://mrf.
Retirement Benefits
- Defined benefit plan for all employees hired after July 1, 2013, mandatory employee contribution rate of 7% beginning after six months of employment
- Employees are fully vested after 10 years.
- Normal retirement at age 62
Life Insurance
- No cost to employee
- Benefit amount is three times salary, maximum amount $300,000
Paid Holidays
Thirteen paid holidays per year as follows:
- New Years Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- President's Day
- Good Friday
- Memorial Day
- Juneteenth
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Veterans Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Friday after Thanksgiving
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
Employee Leave Time
- Vacation
- Employee accrues 3 weeks per year for the first nine years, increasing annually thereafter through 25th year.
- Sick
- Employee accrues 8, 8.5 or 12 hours (depending on shift length) each month. May be carried over each year with 1000 hour cap after January 1, 2018.
- Bereavement
- Military
Disability
The City provides short-term and long-term disability coverage at no cost to the employee.
Educational Assistance
- Reimbursement for tuition and academic fees up to a maximum of $3000 per fiscal year
- Courses taken must be job-related
- Must receive a grade of B or better
- Must reimburse the City 75% of the total amount used if employee leaves City employment within two years of participating in the program.
Optional Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Deferred compensation (457)
- Credit Union
- FSA - Dependent care reimbursement
- FSA - Non-covered medical reimbursement
- AFLAC
- Individual membership at Germantown Athletic Club
Note: Part-time employees are not eligible for full benefits listed above, but may be eligible for limited benefits.