Benefits

2026 Employee Benefits Guide

Insurance

The city provides multiple options for medical and dental coverage as well as vision. The city offers a cafeteria plan of $2,144.00 per month towards coverage.  

Monthly premiums effective January 1, 2026:


EEEE and SPEE and CHEE and FAM
Surest PPO$1,536.00$2,996.00$2,750.00$4,180.00
Journey HMO w/HRA$1,072.00$2,459.00$1,819.00$3,099.00
Alliance HMO$940.00$2,156.00$1,595.00$2,717.00
Kaiser DHMO$969.00$1,773.00$1,574.00$2,094.00
Kaiser HMO$1,129.00$2,067.00$1,835.007$2,443.00
Dental (PPO)$55.89$108.17$130.13$179.86
Dental (HMO)$17.31$34.24$29.23$48.46
Vision*$6.87$12.39$12.63$19.98

Other Insurance

  • Basic Term Life Insurance
  • Short-Term Disability Insurance
  • Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Workers Compensation Insurance
  • Medicare

Retirement - Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)

The current retirement formulas are:

  • Sworn: 3% at 50. (Employees are eligible to retire at age 50 and will earn 3% of their salary per year of service.) 
  • Non-Sworn: 3% at 60. (Employees are eligible to retire at age 60 and will earn 3% of their salary per year of service.)

Employees hired after December 31, 2012, will be required to pay the entire employee portion of PERS contributions, along with a small portion of the employer contribution. The current retirement formulas for these employees are:

  • Sworn: 2.7% at 57. (Employees are eligible to retire at age 57 and will earn 2.7% of their salary per year of service.)
  • Non-Sworn: 2% at 62. (Employees are eligible to retire at age 62 and will earn 2% of their salary per year of service.)

Deferred Compensation

The City offers a 457 plan that the employee may elect to contribute portions of their salary.

Negotiated Incentives

  • Bi-lingual Incentive Pay
  • Certificate Incentive Pay
  • Uniform Allowance