Benefits of Career Choice
The Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) offers employees a competitive salary as well as a strong benefits package that includes promotional opportunities, paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid personal leave, paid holidays, group life insurance, parental leave with job protection, comprehensive health care insurance, prescription plan, vision care plan, and dental care plan and retirement/pension plan.
Benefits for Commonwealth employees include the following:
- Comprehensive health benefits plan
- Supplemental health benefits include prescription, dental, vision, and hearing aid plans (after six months of service)
- Annual leave earned at seven days for up to three years of service, 15 days for 3-15 years, 20 days for 15-25 years and 26 days for over 25 years
- Personal leave earned at one day for the first year, one day each half of the second year, one day per quarter of the third and subsequent years
- Sick leave earned at 13 days per year
- 11 paid holidays per year: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving and day after, Christmas Day
- Paid life insurance (after three months of service)
- State Employees Retirement System (SERS)– information is available at http://www.sers.state.pa.us
- Deferred compensation plan (DCP) – information is available at www.sers457.com
- PSECU Membership, Direct deposit
Community & Economic Development Employee Association (CEDEA) – an employee organization within the agency established to organize activities of a social nature for DCED employees.