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Employee Benefits


Medical, Dental, and Vision Care

  • 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 62. This means that an employee with 25 years of service at age 62 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 about 8 percent of their monthly salary. The LAO contributes about 32 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.

  • Job-Protected Leaves. Employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition are eligible for pregnancy disability leave (PDL). Eligible employees can take leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). Additional information about CFRA and PDL are available here: Family Leave.

  • Wage Continuation Benefits. Eligible employees may receive wage continuation (regular pay) for up to eight weeks of disability and/or four weeks of bonding time after the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.

Other Benefits

  • 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.

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Long-term disability insurance

Optional Benefits

  • 401K or 457 deferred compensation plans

  • Short-term disability insurance

  • Life insurance

  • Legal service insurance plan

  • Dependent care assistance program

  • Discounted public transit passes

  • Discounted state parking spaces and pre-tax payroll deductions for non-state parking spaces