Benefits

We offer a comprehensive, flexible and market-competitive benefits program. Our benefits package reflects the diversity and mobility that makes PwC so unique. It provides access to programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs and goals of our partners, staff and their families.

The benefits program also reflects our philosophy of shared responsibility. PwC pays the full cost of some benefits. For other benefits, our professionals share the cost with the firm. For certain other coverages, our partners and staff pay the full cost. In addition, some benefits have service requirements that must be met before benefits are available.

10 paid holidays each year

• Full-time staff (below manager level) accrue 15 vacation days per year, with an increase to 22 days after two years of active service
  
  
• Full-time staff at the manager level accrue 22 vacation days per year
  
  
• Part-time staff who are eligible for benefits accrue vacation time on a pro-rata basis

• Your choice of plans
  • The Blue Cross Blue Shield Open Access PPO Plan and the CIGNA Open Access Plus Plan are available in all locations. In-network and out-of-network benefit levels offer you a choice of providers—with no referrals required.
  • The Blue Cross Blue Shield and CIGNA Middle and High Deductible Plans are also available in all locations. In-network and out-of-network benefit levels offer you a choice of providers. You pay the cost of care until the annual deductible is satisfied—except for preventive care, which is not subject to the deductible. The annual deductible varies, based upon the Plan selected. Because the Middle and High Deductible Plans are IRS-qualified high deductible plans, you may be eligible to contribute, or have contributions made on your behalf, to a tax-free Health Savings Account (HSA) to help pay for qualified medical expenses.
  
  
• Prescription drug benefits and preventive physical exams are available through PwC's Blue Cross Blue Shield and CIGNA medical plan options.
  
  
• Vision care coverage is provided automatically when you enroll in a PwC medical plan option.
  
  
• The dental plan covers services ranging from diagnostic and preventive care to orthodontia treatment—all available from your choice of providers.

You may contribute up to $5,000 per year tax-free to one or both accounts. Then, get reimbursed tax-free from your account(s) for eligible uncovered health care/dependent care expenses.

You may generally continue receiving your full salary when absent from work for five or fewer consecutive days due to illness, injury or medical treatment, or to care for a member of your immediate family.

You may receive reimbursement of up to $5,000 for adoption-related expenses (up to $6,000 for a special-needs child).

Access to educational materials, unlimited pre/post-birth counseling from nationally recognized lactation specialists and breast pump discounts are available through this program. Private mother's rooms are also available in many of our offices.

Eligible primary care parents with three months of service can use six weeks of paid parental leave (or eight weeks for multiple birth/ adoption) during the year following birth or adoption placement. (Three weeks for non-primary care parents.) This is in addition to paid adoption leave or in addition to maternity disability benefits, for approximately eight weeks. Paid parental leave runs concurrently with any job-protected time under family and medical leave.

A "primary care parent" receives paid leave for up to six weeks following the adoption placement of a child.

This resource provides information, confidential assessments and referrals on issues ranging from emotional well being, financial problems, parenting and child care, to resources for seniors, and much more.

You may receive a monetary reimbursement for emergency child or elder care through this program.

When your regular child care arrangement is not available, access to backup childcare centers is available in various cities throughout the country.

This emergency medical, security and medically-related travel aid service assists staff who are traveling internationally on firm business or who are living and working overseas.

• The firm will assist client service staff obtain professional designation(s) appropriate to their discipline by providing study support and/or paying for all or a portion of the cost of preparation courses for professional examinations through the Professional Certification Expenses program.
  
  
• The Educational Support Plan provides staff with educational support of up to $5,250 (non-taxable) per calendar year to further their education through the pursuit of a degree or to improve their skills by pursuing educational courses directly related to their current position.
  
  
• Through the Matching Gift Program the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation will match your gift ($50 minimum) to qualified colleges or universities, up to a maximum of $7,500 per fiscal year.

PwC's global leadership development program, Genesis Park, turns top talent into future global leaders.

This intense program, whose main focus is a 10-week residential session taking participants through a personal transformation journey, uses real work and real life experiences, not "role-play," as a basis for its complex learning curriculum. Participants address some of the most pressing issues facing PwC's leadership today, and have to build real relationships to work through the real challenges these issues present. Real-time coaching is used at every stage of the journey to help participants constantly improve and understand their strengths and weaknesses as leaders.

Taking place in different countries around the world in specially designed learning environments, participants expand their creativity and problem-solving skills, equipping these top talent Senior Managers/Directors to meet the challenges of global leadership. The program's unique approach to developing the whole person is innovative and delivers maximum benefit to PwC's Network.

Learn more about Genesis Park.

In celebration of career milestones, the firm recognizes individual staff members with a gift for every fifth year of service.

• Basic Group Term Life Insurance pays $20,000 to your beneficiary(ies) if you die.
  
  
• You may purchase Supplemental Life Insurance for yourself—from one to 10 times your salary. Dependent Life Insurance for your spouse (from $25,000 to $300,000 of coverage) and for your children ($5,000 or $10,000) is available if you choose coverage for yourself.
  
  
• Personal Liability Umbrella Insurance is available to managing directors, directors and senior managers. It provides comprehensive catastrophic liability coverage over and above certain limits of the bodily injury and property damage liability insurance the firm requires.
  
  
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance for you, your spouse and your children is available. AD&D pays benefits in the event you (or your spouse or children) are seriously injured in or die from an accident.
  
  
• Business Travel Accident Insurance coverage of $400,000 is provided at no cost and pays a benefit if you die or are seriously injured while traveling on firm-approved business or while commuting to or from work.

This program can help you with a new mortgage, refinancing an existing mortgage and other home equity products.

You may purchase group auto, home, boat, renters, condo, motorcycle, motor home insurance and more—payable through convenient payroll deductions.

• Save from 1% to 100% of eligible compensation on a pre- and/or post-tax basis in the 401(k) Savings Plan (if you are at least 21 years old; IRS limits apply). The firm offers a matching contribution on the first 6% of pay saved.
  
  
• Eligible staff are automatically enrolled in the Retirement Wealth Builder Plan (Wealth Builder) on their date of hire. The Wealth Builder contribution is funded completely by PwC, and the contribution formula is linked to participants' job level and in some cases, benefits service with the US firm. New hires also receive a one-time Wealth Builder bonus contribution to jump start their retirement savings.

• Through the Short-term Disability (STD) Plan, you may continue to receive from 60% to 100% of your salary for up to 26 weeks if you have at least 3 months service and become disabled.
  
  
• You may purchase Long-Term Disability Plan coverage paying 60% (untaxed) of your base salary (up to $600,000); benefit payments start after 26 weeks of a covered disability, which is generally covered under the STD plan.

This program provides a wide range of education-financing options, including loans for private K-12 schools, undergraduate and graduate studies, technical and professional training, and education loan consolidation.

Benefits for extended care services resulting from long-term chronic illnesses or injuries—services that are generally not covered by medical plans or Medicare—are available when you purchase this insurance. The coverage is available at group rates to you and certain family members through convenient payroll deductions.

You have access to a national network of more than 10,000 attorneys and you may receive fully covered legal services when you participate in this program.

PwC's Well-Being Rewards Program offers financial incentives for engaging in a wide range of healthy and responsible behaviors and activities that ultimately may lead to improving your long-term well-being. Examples of qualifying behaviors include yoga, running and weight lifting as well as recycling and volunteering, to name a few. Participation can be fun and financially rewarding—giving you the opportunity to redeem points for gift cards to some of your favorite retailers, or to make a donation to charity.