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Associate Compensation & Benefits
St. Mary's total compensation package of pay and benefits is competitive and comprehensive. Associates can customize a combination of standard and optional benefits to best suit their personal situation.
Compensation
St. Mary's associate salary/wages are externally competitive, internally equitable, and fairly administered throughout the organization. Associates may experience two types of compensation changes. Compensation for each position is evaluated annually against comparable positions in the market. This comparison may result in a market salary increase for associates filling the position. Each associate's performance is also evaluated annually and may result in an additional performance-related salary increase.
Benefits
When coverage begins
New associates have 31 days from their first day on the job to make benefit choices. Some benefits become effective your first day. Others may have an eligibility waiting period. Most benefits that provide insurance coverage, such as medical, dental, and vision, are effective on the first day of the month after you start working. Benefit offerings differ depending on whether you are a full-time, part-time, or casual associate. Human Resources can explain how benefits apply to your employment status.
St. Mary's benefits include the following standard and optional programs:
Paid time off
Paid Time Off (PTO) accrues for each hour you work starting on your very first day. A full-time associate accrues up to 22 days of PTO each year during the first year of employment. The accrual rate increases in your second, fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth year so you accrue more PTO annually. PTO is used for vacations, holidays not worked, personal time, and short illnesses. Typically, the first 16 hours of an illness or hospitalization are covered by the associate's PTO.
Medical coverage
St. Mary's Hospital offers a comprehensive Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) medical plans, an HMO plan, and a Consumer Driven Health Plan (CDHP), each with four levels of coverage to choose from. You can cover yourself, yourself and spouse, yourself and children, or yourself and family (spouse and children). Full-time associates with an annual household income less than $30,000 are eligible for a medical discount plan that reduces their medical insurance premium.
Dental coverage
Benefit-eligible associates can choose from three different dental plans for themselves and dependents.
Vision coverage
A vision plan is also available to benefit-eligible associates and dependents.
Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance (AD&D)
St. Mary's provides a basic level of life insurance and AD&D insurance for all benefit-eligible associates. Associates can purchase additional insurance under our group plan. Associates can also purchase life insurance policies for their spouse and dependents that includes AD&D coverage.
Short-term disability insurance
St. Mary's provides short-term disability insurance for all benefit-eligible associates. This provides a specified level of weekly wage replacement should an associate need to be absent from work due to a serious medical condition.
Long-term disability insurance
St. Mary's provides long-term disability insurance for all benefit-eligible associates. This provides a specified level of monthly wage replacement starting 90 days after a disability occurs. Associates can purchase additional long-term disability insurance under our group plan.
Reimbursement accounts
St. Mary's Hospital provides optional reimbursement or spending accounts which allow you to keep and use more of the money you earn by reducing the amount subject to federal income tax.
Healthcare spending account
Associates deposit pre-tax dollars -- up to $5,000 per year -- into this account to pay for IRS-recognized medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Dependent care spending account
Associates contribute pre-tax dollars to their account. Funds are used for dependent care expenses as defined by the IRS. The amount you can deposit to this account depends on your income tax filing status.
Retirement plans
St. Mary's Hospital contributes to a 401(a) retirement plan for every associate over 18 years of age after one year of service in which the associate worked at least 1,000 hours. The hospital contributes the equivalent of two or three percent of pay, depending upon income, after you qualify for the plan. The contributions are made annually after year end. You are partially vested in this retirement account after three years of service and fully vested after five years.
Associates can also enroll in an optional 403(b) associate retirement savings plan. Contributions can start after your first paycheck and must be within IRS limits. After you qualify for the 401(a) plan, you are eligible for a company matching contribution based on the optional 403(b) plan. St. Mary's will match 70 percent of the first six percent of your pay you contribute to your 403(b) account. This matching contribution (up to 4.2 percent) is in addition to St. Mary's contribution to your 401(a) plan.
Both retirement plans are administered by Fidelity.
Total Rewards/Total Recognition
Other advantages of employment at St. Mary's include:
- Free associate parking
- Associate assistance program (counseling services)
- Discounts in hospital cafeterias and coffee shop
- Training opportunities for professional advancement
- College scholarships for associates' children
- Tuition reimbursement
- Recognition programs and events, holiday meals, family activities
- Discounted health club membership
- Free local bus pass
"Hits the Spot" Associate Recognition
St. Mary's "Hits the Spot" recognizes and celebrates associates' contributions through a variety of programs. Management personnel and associates can recognize and reward individuals for outstanding skills mastery and exceptional performance. Teams are honored for collaborative contributions to patients and to the organization. And each year, approximately 100 of St. Mary's "top performers" who have consistently demonstrated excellence in job performance and are role models for fellow associates are selected for a yearlong recognition and personal/professional development program.
Service recognition
St. Mary's also celebrates each associate's service anniversary and service milestones through formalized recognition programs. Professional celebratory weeks, such as "National Nurses Week," are marked with a celebratory, informational or educational department event.
Encouraging our mission
St. Mary's Mission Service program encourages associates to take our mission of serving the poor and vulnerable outside the hospital by providing paid leave to perform human services work.
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