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Holidays and Dependant Health Insurance

We are currently evaluating our employee benefits package and wanted to survey the group on the following:

How many paid holidays do you give each year?

Do you cover dependent health insurance? If so at what percentage?

Thanks for your help!

Shannon Ellis Business Manager Tackett Barbaria Design Group

We offer 9 1/2 paid holidays per year - New Year's Day, President's Day, 1/2 day on Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas and one floating holiday (which this year will be Dec. 24)

We pay 25% toward dependent health insurance.

Dorinda Sample COO Janzen IdeaCorp

We pay 8 holidays throughout the year. We will occasionally close the office a few hours early on holidays we do not recognize, ie Good Friday, Halloween(traffic home is a bear if we do not) December 31, etc.

We cover dependent insurance premiums at 50%

Carol Stano Controller Drone & Mueller and Associates

We give our employees 11 holidays + 2 personal days in addition to their set vacation time.

We do not pay for dependent's health insurance- employees that want coverage for their dependents, are allowable to cover them, and they in return reimburse the company for the expense.

Hope this helps,

Anita Tebbetts DKO New York

> How many paid holidays do you give each year?
9 holidays, 15 PTO days

> > Do you cover dependent health insurance? If so at what percentage?
No

Roxanne Cowan

Holidays - Seven (7) - New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and day after, and Christmas Day. Depending on day Christmas falls, may also include Christmas Eve or day after Christmas.

Insurance - no dependents, unless negotiated at time of hiring.

Tami Lester

We have the standard holidays, New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, 1/2 day on Christmas Eve, Christmas and 1/2 day for New Years Eve.

We also have medical, dental, Life and ADD for our staff and we foot the entire bill.

That and a month's vacation for the first year of employment makes for very happy and productive staff!

Deb Harrington Princess of Power in10city

We are currently evaluating our employee benefits package and wanted to survey the group on the following:

How many paid holidays do you give each year?

<< 8, including day after Thanksgiving, but we're also closed between Xmas & New Year's >>

Do you cover dependent health insurance? If so at what percentage?

<< 50%, but in the current (bad) business climate where we are we may have to look at raising the employee % >>

Thanks for your help!

Shannon Ellis Business Manager Tackett Barbaria Design Group

Brent A. Byrd Chief Financial Officer Point Zero, Inc.

> We are currently evaluating our employee benefits package and wanted to > survey the group on the following: > > How many paid holidays do you give each year?

7 days + 2 personal days

> Do you cover dependent health insurance? If so at what percentage?

Yes, 100% of the employee only

> Thanks for your help! > > Shannon Ellis > Business Manager > Tackett Barbaria Design Group > shannon@tbdesign.com

Ann Adams Controller J. Stokes & Associates common sense | uncommon thinking www.jstokes.com

10 paid holidays We cover 100% of individual - no dependents

Jerry Bray, COO Harvey & Daughters

We offer seven paid holidays and cover the employee's health insurance only. We do not cover dependent's health insurance.

Lisa Tuckett Director of Operations Hodgson/Meyers Communications
www.hodgsonmeyers.com

We offer seven paid holidays and cover the employee's health insurance only. We do not cover dependent's health insurance.

Lisa Tuckett Director of Operations Hodgson/Meyers Communications
www.hodgsonmeyers.com

We provide paid holidays as follows: New Year's Day MLK Jr. Day President's Day Memorial Day Fourth of July Labor Day Thanksgiving Day plus Friday Christmas Eve (half day) Christmas Day

Paid Time-Off (no distinction between vacation or sick time) = 15 days per year

Health Benefits = 100% paid for both employee and dependents (in most cases). Dollar amount of premiums is considered in total package of compensation at time of hiring.

Hope this helps!

Kay Rosburg, V.P., Dever Designs

We allow for 7-10 Holidays per year - depending on when certain holidays fall. For example if Christmas falls on a Tuesday, we may give the staff the Monday off for Christmas Eve. (Depending on work load and of course the mood of our boss)

As far as medical benefits we offer a cafeteria plan where an employee has 4 plans to choose from, one being an HMO, which is of no cost to the employee. Employee vs company contributions generally falls within 20-25% employee 75-80% company. The coverage extends from single/employee to full family coverage.

Hope this helps.

Kathi Sheehan

>We are currently evaluating our employee benefits package and wanted to >survey the group on the following: > >How many paid holidays do you give each year?

6 - New Years, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Typically we give add'l. discretionary holidays (Friday after Thanksgiving and Good Friday, almost always)

>Do you cover dependent health insurance? If so at what percentage?

We pay 60% of medical insurance regardless of the type of coverage an employee carries - single, family, whatever

>Thanks for your help! > >Shannon Ellis >Business Manager >Tackett Barbaria Design Group

Pamela A. Brosch, CPA Chief Financial Officer HSR Business to Business Inc.

Our benefits package includes approximately 12 paid holidays a year, including the week between Christmas and New Years Day as a paid week off. 7 other days include Memorial Day, Fourth of July (and sometimes the day before or after it falls within 2 days of a weekend), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. We don't observe Presidents Day or MLK day because we are generous with paid time off which includes 10 days two years, 15 days third/fourth year, and 20 days fifth year. Paid time off includes sick, vacation, personal, whatever they want to do with it.

We do not cover dependent health insurance. But we do over a Cafeteria 125/Flexible spending plan so they can have their dependent premiums deducted pre-tax as well as other medical expenditures.

Joey Pless Controller Nerve, Inc.

Our holidays vary year to year, but they are approximately 10.

We do not cover dependant insurance.

Tina Hawkins Business Manager Fricks/Firestone Advertising Atlanta, GA

New Years Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the Day after, Christmas Day, and your Birthday as a floater. Officially. Unofficially, we look at when Christmas falls and make a call. This past year,the staff received several days off for xmas.

We pay 50% of dependent care and 100% of employee.

Shelly Constantz

Greetings from Philadelphia, PA. Here at Elkman/Alexander & Partners we "officially" close our doors for New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving day, and Christmas Day totaling 8 days. In addition to these holidays, we respect the employees right to observe their religious holidays. We cover 50% of dependent health insurance.

Hope this helps.

Marc R. Traub Chief Financial Manager Elkman/Alexander & Partners

We give our employees 10 paid holidays (new years eve, new years day, good friday, memorial day, fourth of july, labor day, thanksgiving day, day after thanksgiving, christmas eve, christmas day), 2 sick days, 10 vacation days per year (accrue every 26 days) until 5 years of service and then it is bumped up to 15 vacation days per year.

Our health/dental/life insurance is completely paid for employees and spouses/families.

Thanks,

Jaimee Stagner Accounting Manager www.groupcdesign.com