Benefits
Retirement
- Texas Municipal Retirement System
- Employee contribution rate: 7% of salary
- City matches employee's contributions at a 2:1 ratio
- Employees are fully vested after five years of employment
- Employees are eligible to retire at any age with 20 years of credited service
- Deferred compensation programs are available if employees choose to participate
Health Insurance
- BlueCross BlueShield of Texas High Deductible Health Plan with HSA
- Effective the first of the month following 2 full months of employment
- City pays employee's health coverage and 1/2 of dependent coverage
- Optional dependent coverage is available to employees for $166.35 per pay period ($332.70/month)
- $5,000 deductible, after deductible insurance pays 100%
- City contributes $100/month to HSA ($1,200 annually)
- Employee can contribute to the individual or family HSA maximum ($2,200 ind/$5,500 fam)
Life Insurance
- City carries $15,000 life insurance on employee
- Voluntary life available on Employee guaranteed to $100,000 and Spouse guaranteed to $20,000
- Dependent life for child ages 6 months to 18 years (23 yrs if full time student) $1.00/month for $5,000 or $2.00/month for $10,000
Dental Insurance
- Cigna
- Effective the first of the month following 2 full months of employment
- City pays employee's dental coverage
- Optional dependent dental is available to employees for $33.96 pay period ($67.91/month)
- Dentist of your choice
- (2) cleanings/x-rays per year paid at 100% under preventive with no deductible
- $50 annual deductible
- After deductible, insurance pays 80% of most charges (50% crowns & dentures)
- Orthodontics benefit $1,000 lifetime/per person
Longevity pay
- All Full-time employees receive $48.00 per year longevity pay. Longevity pay shall commence upon completion of one (1) year of service to the City not to exceed twenty-five (25) years.
Holidays
Ten paid holidays per year as follows:
- New Years Day (January 1)
- Martin Luther King Day (Third Monday in January)
- Good Friday
- Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day (First Monday in September)
- Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November)
- Friday after Thanksgiving
- Christmas Eve (December 24)
- Christmas Day (December 25)
- Holidays for firefighters that work twenty-four (24) hours shifts are included in vacation time.
Vacation
- 10 days after one year of employment
- 12 days after six years of employment
- 15 days after eleven years of employment
- 20 days after twenty-one years of employment
- Employees may carry forward up to 40 hours of vacation on their anniversary date each year (any amount over 40 hours is forfeited)
Fire Department personnel working a 24-hour shift:
- 240 hours/10 shifts after one year of employment
- 264 hours/11 shifts after six years of employment
- 300 hours/12.5 shifts after eleven years of employment
- 360 hours/15 shifts after twenty-one years of employment
- Fire personnel may carry forward up to 60 hours of vacation on their anniversary date each year (any amount over 60 hours is forfeited)
Sick Leave
- Shall not be granted to an employee during the first two (2) months of employment
- Employees earn 12 days per year
- If unused, sick leave may carry forward each year on the employee's anniversary date up to a maximum of 90 days
- Sick leave is for employee's personal illness Fire Department personnel accrue sick leave on a basis of 144 hours for each full year of employment
- If unused, sick leave may carry forward each year on the employee's anniversary date up to a maximum of 1,080 hours/45 shifts
Emergency Leave
- Shall not be granted to an employee during the first two (2) months of employment
- Six (6) days per year (does not carry forward if unused)
- Fire department personnel on a 24 hour shift receive 72 hours per year (does not carry forward if unused)
- For family illness and/or death in family
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