Benefits

Full-time employees will become eligible on the first of the month after completing 30 days of employment. Full-time employees receive the following health benefits: life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), long-term disability, a health savings account, medical, dental, and vision. More information about each of these benefits can be found in the Human Resources Office.

The Seattle School seeks to provide comprehensive benefits coverage to its employees at an equitable contribution level. The insurance rates and premium contributions are subject to change at open enrollment.

Healthcare Benefit Guide 24-25
Healthcare Benefit Guide 25-26
Pharmacy Three Tier List
Regence Member Resource Guide
Regence HDHP 2500 SBC
Regence PPO 2000 SBC
HSA Benefits Guide (contact HR for electronic signature enrollment or change forms)
Life Insurance Booklet
Employee Assistance Program
Benefit Change Request Form

For enrollment or changes, please contact our HR Generalist to receive the appropriate form via SignNow for electronic signature and submission.

Current federal law gives employees, their spouses, and dependents, under certain circumstances, the right to continue health benefit coverage (called “continuation coverage”) at group rates for a limited period after they would otherwise lose their eligibility.

An employee who has a qualifying event that causes them and/or covered dependents to lose their insurance coverage (e.g. termination for any reason other than gross misconduct, reduction in hours causing the loss of insurance coverage, leave to serve in the United States Military, legal separation or divorce, dependents turning 26 years old or becoming eligible for Medicare) is eligible for COBRA benefits.

The employee must notify the Human Resources Office within 30 days of a qualifying event. The Human Resources representative then has 14 days to notify the beneficiaries of their rights under COBRA. These beneficiaries have 60 days following the notice to let The Seattle School know if they want to continue coverage. If so, the employee or eligible family member must send the full premium plus a 2% administrative fee to The Seattle School Business Office each month. The Seattle School then makes the payment to the insurance company. If the beneficiaries do not send the payment when due, insurance coverage may be lost.

Detailed benefit summaries from the vendor are available in the Human Resources Office.

The EAP is designed to help you and your family members attain a healthy and productive life through a variety of personalized services. Our EAP provides confidential assessment, counseling, and referral assistance to all employees and family members in areas such as stress, marital and other family conflicts, alcohol and drug abuse, and financial/legal difficulties.

The Seattle School wants to assist employees to resolve personal difficulties at early stages before they become costly in terms of either personal distress or work productivity. For more information about the program, contact the Human Resources Office.

Employee Assistance Program

Document folder of various offerings

Various Leaves of Absence

See the Employee Handbook for details.

The Seattle School recognizes that it is important for employees to save money during their work years to spend in their retirement. In order to assist the employee with this, The Seattle School has provided a retirement plan, where up to five percent of the employee’s gross salary is contributed by The Seattle School. In addition, eligible employees may supplement their retirement benefits by designating a paycheck deduction for additional pre-tax contributions. If there is any inconsistency between this brief summary and the plan document, the plan document will govern. For more information regarding this plan, please contact the Human Resources Office.

Hardship Withdrawal Form
Retirement Planning Guide (contact HR for electronic signature enrollment or change forms)
Annual Disclosure Notice 2025
Retirement Plan Highlights
Retirement Asset Rollover Form
Roth Option Explained
USI Login Instructions

The Seattle School subsidizes up to 75% of the cost (depending upon the number of hours worked) of an Orca Pass that will provide you with unlimited bus travel on King County Metro Transit, Community Transit, Sound Transit, unlimited travel on the Sound Transit Sounder commuter rail service, and a home free guarantee. For more information regarding this plan, please contact the Human Resources Office.

ORCA User Card Agreement (contact HR for electronic signature forms)

Holidays

The Seattle School strives to be a family friendly workplace and believes that families should have time together to relax and celebrate. The Seattle School provides fifteen paid holidays for continuing employees working 20 or more hours per week. The amount paid for a holiday will be dependent on the normal hours worked during a normal workday (e.g. If you are normally scheduled to work 6 hours per day, holiday pay will be for 6 hours). The recognized holidays each year are:

• New Year’s Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day (4-day weekend TBD annually)
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving (Wednesday- Friday)
• Christmas (Dec. 24th & 25th plus discretionary days as assigned from Dec 26-31)

Vacation Pay

The Seattle School provides paid time off for rest and relaxation for the physical and mental health for its continuing employees who work 20 or more hours a week. Employees earn vacation time from their hire date. The amount of paid vacation that employees are entitled to receive depends on length of continuous service and job classification level. Vacation accrual rate is prorated for those working less than 40 hours per week.

See the Employee Handbook for more details on vacation and sick time.

The Seattle School provides a tuition waiver for employees based upon scheduled work commitment. Tuition waiver is also provided for family members (spouse and children) of full- time employees. This waiver applies to courses for credit, community audit. The waiver does not apply to fees related to tuition costs.

To receive the tuition waiver, an application for tuition waiver must be completed 2 weeks prior to the start of the term in which the waiver will be used. Tuition waivers are allotted on a per family basis. Students must work out scheduling issues to the satisfaction of their supervisor. The amount of the tuition waiver will depend upon your length of service and full-time equivalent at The Seattle School as set below:

See the Employee Handbook for more details.

The Seattle School Library serves our faculty and staff in addition to students. Services include on- campus and remote access to the library catalog and multiple electronic databases, circulation privileges, interlibrary loans privileges, and individual instruction on the use of library and information resources.

Effective September 1, 2012 employees working within the Seattle city limits and more than 240 hours per calendar year (excluding work-study employees) are eligible for paid sick time. Eligible employees will accrue 1 hour for every 40 hours worked, with a maximum carryover of 56 hours per calendar year.