Employee Benefits

See Culver City's 2024 Detailed Benefit Guide here!

• The Cafeteria Allowance Amounts have increased slightly to the below:

• The monthly premium rates for the CalPERS health plans are changing for 2025. Please review the rates carefully before making your Open Enrollment choices.

  Blue Shield of California is the new administrator for CalPERS PPO Gold and PPO Platinum Health Plans

• The monthly premium rates have decreased slightly for Delta Dental PPO, VSP and Employer Paid Life and AD&D coverages.

• The annual limit for the health FSA increased to $3,200 for the Health FSA. The Dependent Care FSA annual limit remains at $5,000.

  You can now make your FSA plan selection(s) on the Open Enrollment page in Employee Self-Service.

• Lincoln Financial Group is the new carrier for employer paid Life and AD&D coverage, and Short-term and Long-term Disability.

• Employees can purchase Met Life Pet Insurance

• The City is Introducing a New Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Concern and an Employee Discount Platform through LifeBalance

• Later this Year: Additional Voluntary Benefits Plans 

Want to get a sneak peak of the all new 2025 Benefits Guide.
Click here or on the image below. 

2025 Benefits at a Glance(PDF, 188KB)

Choosing your health plan is an important decision. To assist you with this process, each health plan available through the California Public Employees’ Retirement System has produced a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC). In addition, the federal government has compiled a glossary of common health terms. Together, these documents provide important information to help you better understand our health benefit coverage and more easily compare health plan options. To access the SBCs and glossary online, visit CalPERS website and select View Health Plan Rates to access the Plans & Rates page, or visit any of the health plan websites below. To request a courtesy paper copy of the SBC and glossary, contact each health plan directly.

You may choose the Delta Dental PPO Plan (similar to a PPO medical plan) or the DeltaCare USA Plan (similar to an HMO medical plan). Dependents are eligible up to age 26. Visit Delta Dental's Website to find a provider and view the plan details.

All eligible employees of the City and their dependents are eligible for vision coverage through VSP. Dependents are eligible up to age 26. To locate a VSP provider, visit VSP.com

Accrual of Vacation Leave

1. Vacation hours shall accrue each pay period at one twenty-sixth (1/26) of the annual accrual rate (i.e., annual accrual rate divided by 26).
2. Exceptions to the maximum allowable accruals may be granted by the City Manager, or his/her designee, to meet exceptional departmental staffing needs.
3. No vacation shall be authorized, for leave or payment, unless accrued prior to the time for use or payment, except as authorized by the City Manager.

List of benefits

1. The list of Vacation Leave Benefits shown below sets forth in detail the number of working hours per year to which a full-time unit employee is entitled as a vacation leave benefit.
2. A regular part-time employee shall accrue vacation in the proportion represented by their regular work week schedule in relation to a forty [40] hour work schedule (i.e., the bi-weekly accrual for a thirty-five [35] hour RPT employee will be based upon eighty-seven and one-half percent [87.5%] of the annual amount shown for a full-time unit employee).
3. The benefit shown in each category shall commence upon entering the first day of the new category as follows:

• 1st through 4th Years of Employment: 80 hours/year
• 5th though 14th Years of Employment: 120 hours/year
• 15th through 20th Years of Employment: (number of hours will vary by bargaining Unit - Check the MOU's for more specific information.)
• After the 21st Year of Employment: (number of hours will vary by bargaining Unit - Check the MOU's for more specific information.)

Eligibility for Sick Leave

No sick leave shall be granted until the unit employee has completed three (3) full months of service, including time spent on provisional or temporary appointment.

Accrual of Sick Leave for Full Time Employees

Sick Leave credit accrues each bi-weekly pay period pro-rated on an annual basis and shall be credited as follows: 

• 4 Hours Bi-Weekly
• 8.667 Hours Monthly 
• 104 Hours Annually (104hrs / 26 pay periods)

Accrual of Sick Leave for regular Part time Employees

Each RPT unit employee shall accrue sick leave each bi-weekly pay period pro-rated on an annual basis in the same proportion that their regularly scheduled workweek compares to a forty (40) hour workweek.

The Official City Paid Holidays are as follows: 

• New Year's Day (The first day of January)
• Martin Luther King Day (Third Monday in January)
• Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
• Independence Day (The fourth day of July)
• Labor Day (First Monday in September)
• Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November)
• Friday After Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day (Twenty-fifth day of December)
• Floating Holiday time each fiscal year (Number of hours will vary by bargaining unit - Check the MOU's for more specific information.)

*Please Note: There may be some variance on the observation of the holidays listed above based on job classification please check the MOU specific to your job classification for more details.

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All active, benefited employees of the City working at least 20 hours per week are eligible for Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage through The Standard. The coverage amount for Life Insurance is the same amount as the coverage for AD&D coverage. Premiums for employees are paid in full by the City.

Premium

• Life Insurance Monthly Mandatory Premium: $8.00
• AD&D Monthly Mandatory Premium: $1.25

Coverage

• Life Insurance Coverage: All Eligible Employees - $50,000
• AD&D Coverage: All Eligible Employees - $50,000

Coverage for dependent life insurance (i.e., spouse, registered domestic partner, child) is paid by the employee at a rate of 12 cents per pay period regardless of the number of dependents. Dependent children are covered up to age 26. Dependents are not eligible for AD&D. To add dependent coverage during open enrollment, a medical questionnaire must be completed and sent directly to The Standard. Please reach out to Human Resources if you are adding life insurance for a dependent during open enrollment.

Coverage

• Dependent Coverage Spouse: $1,000
• Dependent Coverage Child: $1,000

The City provides retirement benefits to eligible employees under the California Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS). 

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The City of Culver City provides Education Incentive Pay for eligible job classifications to:

• Motivate unit employees to achieve higher education
• Enhance career development
• Increase the professional standards of the department
• Increase the level of service to the community.
  
  

All compensation for Education Incentive Pay is awarded only for the highest level of degree achieved, compensation is non-cumulative.
Eligibility and compensation amount vary by MOU. Please check the MOU for your job classification for more specific information.

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In recognition of fulltime City employment, the City shall provide the additional incentive pay for employee longevity. Longevity Pay is not cumulative and will only be awarded for the highest level of service achieved. Years of service shall be calculated using any periods of service in which an employee worked full-time with the City of Culver City, regardless of breaks in service. Eligibility and amount vary by job classification. Please check the MOU for your job classification for more specific information.