Benefits are an important part of your total compensation, so it’s important to know exactly what your package includes. One great feature of your CU benefits package is that the system contributes 85 percent to 90 percent of your medical premiums. This benefits package ranks highly among competitors.

Although packages vary depending on whether you’re faculty, retiree, student employee, university staff or classified staff, the general offerings typically include the following:

• Insurance
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Life
• Unemployment/Workers’ Compensation
• Retirement
• Family Medical Leave (also known as FMLA)
• Vacation
• Sick days
• Our innovative Financial Wellness program

Find out more by reviewing our benefits.

By enrolling in one of our health plans, you will also receive access to health and wellness programs provided by Be Colorado

All these programs factor into your total compensation. Select your employee type to see how:

Happy lives include secure retirements. CU helps you save for your retirement by offering core plans that eligible employees are required to choose from, as well as several voluntary savings options. All of these options are designed to bolster your retirement income so you can look forward to the future.

Core Plans: So Good, Almost Everyone is Enrolled in One

• The University 401(a) Retirement Plan. The 401(a) is what’s known as a defined contribution plan. This is a hands-on plan that allows you to help manage your investments if you’d like. With this plan, you commit to investing 5% of your salary in the plan and CU automatically contributes an amount equal to 10% of your salary to your plan.  For example, if your pre-tax earnings are $25,000 per year, you would contribute $1,250 per year to your 401(a) account and CU will automatically contribute double that amount – $2,500 – to your account.
• Public Employees' Retirement Association Retirement Plan (known as PERA). PERA is a defined benefit plan with hands-off investment management. You contribute 8% of your annual salary to this plan and CU contributes an amount equal to 18.35% of your annual salary. When you retire, you’ll get a regular monthly payment you can rely upon.

If you would like to save even more money for retirement, CU also offers several voluntary retirement programs. This benefit is open to all employees.

Learn more about CU retirement plans

As a university, we strive to foster a culture of learning for all employees, not just the student body. There’s personal and professional momentum that comes with continued learning, and it’s in this spirit that we offer several ways to access training. With both on-site and online options, course scheduling is flexible and we’ll even grant time off so you can participate. Resources include:

• Online Learning
• Books24x7
• Leadership Development
• Performance Management
• Employee Tuition Benefits
• Training Courses
• Required Compliance Training

Every employee in our CU system has automatic access to the State of Colorado Benefits Hub.  Check it out and start taking advantage of amazing savings and special offers on everything from shopping, dining, sporting events, concerts and theme parks to movies, car rentals and cell phone plans, just to name a few.

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Everybody needs somebody sometimes. The Faculty Staff Assistance program offers the following confidential services, free-of-charge to all faculty and staff members of the CU-Boulder campus:

• Counseling
• Crisis and Threat Response
• Educational Groups
• Supervisor Consultation
• Employee Consultation
• Work-Life Series and Workshops
• Departmental Training
• Walk-in Appointments
• Referrals