Benefits

Grow Your Career with Cuyahoga Community College!

At Tri-C, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your well-being, career growth and work-life balance. As part of the Tri-C team, you'll enjoy a competitive market-based salary, exceptional health benefits, multiple retirement plan options and flexible work schedules.

All full-time employees are eligible for health benefits under our Electives Flexible Benefits Plan. Part-time employees are eligible for select benefits, including tuition remission, retirement accounts and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).

Join Tri-C, where we provide a range of benefits tailored to your unique needs and well-being. We're here to support you every step of the way.

View our Benefits Guide for detailed information about our benefits.

Medical and Prescription Benefits
Dental Insurance
Vision Plans
Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account (with employer contributions)
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
Hospital Indemnity Coverage
Accident Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance

The Health and Wellness program is part of the College's initiative to improve your health. We are proud to offer programs that support a stronger, healthier you! Participate in programs to accumulate points and earn rewards. Our programs and services include:

On-site gym/fitness centers
Workplace yoga
Live and virtual workshops
On-site flu shots
Wellness, step and hiking challenges
On-site mammograms

Mandatory Retirement Plans

All employees of Ohio public colleges and universities, including Tri-C, do not participate in the federal Social Security system except for contributions made to Medicare. Instead, all employees are enrolled in either the State Teachers Retirement System (14% employee contribution) or the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (13% contribution for law enforcement, 10% for all others) upon hire. Tri-C contributes 14% to your mandatory retirement plan (18.1% for law enforcement employees). Eligible full-time employees have the option of opting out of the state plan and opting into the Alternative Retirement Plan, a 401(a) defined contribution plan.

Voluntary Retirement Plans

Tri-C offers all employees the ability to enroll in a 403(b), 457(b) and/or a Roth 457(b) at any time throughout the year. Voluntary retirement plans are 100% employee-funded.

Paid time off is available to full-time employees and the number of paid leave days you accrue varies according to your employee group. Learn more in the Benefits Guide.

Types of paid time off are:

Vacation
Sick Time
Personal Time
Spring Break: Eligible full-time employees receive five days of Spring Leave during Tri-C's annual one-week closure in mid-March
Winter Leave: Eligible full-time employees receive Winter Leave to use during the days between Christmas and New Year's Day (Tri-C closes annually during this time)
Paid Holidays:
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- Memorial Day
- Juneteenth
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Veteran's Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Day After Thanksgiving
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- New Year's Eve

AllOne Health, the College's employee assistance and work-life balance program, has partnered with MyLifeExpert to help with whatever life throws your way.

Family Life: Adoption, aging, children, family assistance
Health: Addiction, healthy living, mental health, mindfulness, nutrition
Financial: Credit, debt, financial wellness, identity theft, legal
Career: Exploration, management, opportunities, work-life balance, workplace
Living: Consumer safety, disaster, green living, mobile apps, pets

Through AllOne Health, you and your family can receive confidential, professional counseling and guidance when faced with personal or work-related problems. Our Employee Assistance Program also provides referral assistance or direction, counseling and crisis intervention whenever you need it.

The Tri-C Remission of Fees program covers instructional fees for Tri-C courses. Eligibility criteria, types of courses covered, and the remission amount vary based on the employee group and course type. Both full-time and part-time employees are eligible to participate.

The College also offers a Tuition Reimbursement benefit to all eligible full-time employees for classes taken toward a bachelor's, master's and doctorate degree. Eligible employees must have completed at least two years of continuous full-time service at the College.

The Transparency in Coverage mandate requires insurers and group health plans to make rate information publicly accessible to members and non-members starting July 2022. Medical Mutual will share rate information for Medical Mutual-contracted providers as well as historical allowed amounts and billed charges for out-of-network providers in a machine-readable file (MRF) format. The information will be posted on a dedicated MRF landing page, accessible through the Medical Mutual website. To be considered compliant under the mandate, the regulations specify that ASP (self-funded) groups must include a link on their own website that directs users to the location of the publicly available MRFs. Access the files here: Medical Mutual No Surprises Act Legislation.