Benefits & Retirement

Employee Benefits Overview

The City of Sacramento provides a competitive package of employee benefit programs that supports City recruitment and retention objectives and is designed to meet the diverse and changing needs of our employees. The Benefits Division in the Human Resources Department administers these programs.

• Health, Dental & Vision
• Retirement, Disability and Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits
• Additional Benefits Information
• Holidays
• Vacation & Sick Days, Bereavement Leave, and Longevity Pay
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Forms
• Catastrophic Leave
• Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

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Health

Health - City of Sacramento offers three health insurance plans that include:

• Kaiser HMO
• Health Net HMO
• Health Net PPO

Additional services through health insurance plans include:

• Chiropractic
• Mental Health

Dental - City of Sacrament offers two dental plans that include:

• Delta Premier DPO
• DeltaCare DMO

Vision

• Vision Service Plan

Employee Assistance Program – counseling and other services for employees and their families

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Retirement, Disability and Insurance

• Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) – Participation in this retirement plan is mandatory beginning on the first day of employment. The City does participate in Social Security and the required 1.45% Medicare contribution by both the employee and the City.
• 401(a) Plan – Employees in exempt management and other selected bargaining groups participate in the plan. This is a City/Employee provided contribution
• Life Insurance Policy – City provides a term life insurance policy at City cost for all employees. Additional Supplemental coverage is available at employee cost.
• Long-Term Disability – City provides a policy for all exempt management employees.

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Voluntary Benefits

• Flexible Spending Accounts – Medical and Dependent Care Spending Accounts
• Long Term Disability - Employees in non exempt management may participate
• Short Term Disability
• 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
• Payroll Roth IRA
• Group Home and Auto Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Group Legal Services

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Additional Benefits Information

Holidays

The City observes the following paid holidays:

•	New Year's Day		January 1
•	Martin Luther King's Birthday		Third Monday in January
•	Washington's Birthday		Third Monday in February
•	Cesar Chavez' Birthday		Last Monday in March
•	Memorial Day		Last Monday in May
•	Independence Day		July 4
•	Labor Day		First Monday in September
•	Veteran's Day		November 11
•	Thanksgiving Day		Fourth Thursday in November
•	Day after Thanksgiving Day		Friday after Thanksgiving
•	Christmas Eve (4 hours)		December 24
•	Christmas Day		December 25
•	New Year's Eve (4 hours)		December 31

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Vacation Days

Employees with less than five full years earn eighty hours of vacation each year. Employees with six years and, but less than fifteen full years earn one hundred twenty hours of vacation each year. Employees with fifteen or more years earn one hundred sixty hours of vacation each year.

Sick Days

Full-time employee accumulate sick leave credits at the rate of one day per month, four hours per bi-weekly pay period, for a total of twelve days.

Bereavement Leave

Employees may receive up to three days of City-paid leave for bereavement based on the death of the employee's spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild or grandparent.

Longevity Pay

Employees completing twenty years of service, receive yearly thereafter a lump sum of $100. Employees completing twenty-five years of service, receive yearly thereafter a lump sum of $200.

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Tuition Reimbursement

$1,500 maximum per calendar year for the cost of tuition, books, and fees, excluding parking.

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Catastrophic Leave

	Catastrophic Leave Program
			Catastrophic Leave
			Donor Form

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – Federal Regulations

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