Human Resources
Comprehensive Annual Leave
Provides employees with paid time off for rest and relaxation, personal or family illness, bereavement, and personal business. For FLSA non-exempt classifications, 19 days annual accrual during the first year, increasing to 30 days beginning in year ten, prorated based on the full-time equivalent for all part-time positions. For exempt classifications, 24 days annual accrual during the first year, increasing to 35 days beginning in year ten, prorated based on the full-time equivalent for all part-time positions.
Cafeteria Plan
The City offers a "cafeteria style" flexible benefits plan, with a Fixed Monthly Employer Contribution Schedule provided by the City for all regular and probationary full-time and part-time employees. The benefits plan is covered under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code allowing employees to pay monthly benefit premiums on a pre-tax basis.
Flexible Spending Accounts
You can set up one Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for health care expenses and another to pay for the cost of caring for your dependents while you are at work. The Health Care Spending Account is a tax-free way to pay any qualified out-of-pocket expenses associated with medical, dental, and vision care for yourself and any family members who are legal dependents. You may contribute between $180 and $2,500, pre-tax, annually to this account. The Dependent Care Spending Account allows you to pay for child or elder care expenses on a tax-free basis.
Life Insurance
The City contracts with VOYA/ReliaStar (formally called ING) to provide term life insurance for employees in an amount equal to two (2) times the employee’s annual salary to a maximum of $300,000. The City pays the full cost of the monthly premium.
Employees of the City are currently covered under the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). While the City does not participate in the Social Security System, federal mandate requires new employees to contribute 1.45% of wages to Medicare insurance coverage.
Medical Insurance
The City contracts with CalPERS to offer medical insurance to employees, plus their qualified dependents. There is a choice from among twelve plans (all PPO plans are administered by Blue Cross).
Staff Compensation
Every year or two, the City conducts a labor market review of 14 comparable cities to establish and update the City’s pay structures. This market data, combined with job analysis and internal salary relationships, are used to determine appropriate pay grades for City jobs. The established City Policy is to compensate employees at a level comparable to the median total compensation of the benchmarked positions in the comparator agencies, with salary ranges set at no less than median.
Information About Social Security
The City of Mission Viejo does not participate in Social Security. Your earnings from City employment are not covered under Social Security. When you retire, or if you become disabled, you may receive a pension based on earnings from this job. If you do, and you are also entitled to a benefit from Social Security based on either your own work or the work of your spouse, or former spouse, your pension may affect the amount of the Social Security benefit you receive. Your Medicare benefits, however, will not be affected.
