Discover the comprehensive benefits offered to Cecil College employees, including health coverage, retirement plans, tuition assistance, and work-life support. See why our team thrives.

Health and Medical Benefits

Health insurance benefits for full-time faculty and staff are provided through a self-funded group for county-funded agencies, sponsored by the Board of County Commissioners of Cecil County and administered by Aetna.

Highlights include:

  • PPO
  • Annual open enrollment
  • Calendar Year Plan
  • $20.00 office visit co-pay for PCP; $30.00 for specialist
  • Pre-tax premium arrangement
  • Standard and High Deductible plan available
  • Health Savings Account for enrollment in High Deductible plan
  • Retiree health savings account for those who qualify

Dental through United Concordia, vision through EyeMed, and prescription benefits through CVS CareMark are available.

Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Pre-tax savings account
  • Health Care Spending Accounts use for reimbursement of employee and dependent medical, dental, vision, expenses beyond coverage
  • Dependent Care Spending Accounts use for reimbursement for dependent care expenses incurred to allow you to work

Life Insurance

  • Coverage equal to 1 x salary up to a maximum of $200,000.00
  • College paid premium
  • Employees may elect to purchase supplemental life insurance

Accidental Death and Dismemberment

  • Coverage equal to 1 x salary up to a maximum of $200,000.00
  • College paid premium

Long-Term Disability

  • College paid premium
  • Eligibility begins 90 days of continuous full-time employment

Retirement

  • Maryland State Teacher's Pension System (7% contributory) - Maryland State Retirement and Pension System.

    • Eligible full-time staff and part-time hourly positions with 500+ budgeted hours for the fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) will be enrolled in the Maryland State Teacher’s Pension System.
  • Optional Retirement Plan with 7.25% employer contribution (non-contributory) - Fidelity, TIAA-CREF. Eligibility requirements apply.

Supplement Retirement Annuities

  • Tax-sheltered annuities—403b. Payroll salary deduction authorization needed. Information available through TIAA and Fidelity. Full-time and part-time staff eligible.

Wellness

Paid Leave Benefits

  • Vacation: Administrators and 12-Month Faculty accrue leave at rate of 20 days per year. Full-time hourly staff accrues leave at a rate of 12 days per years at hire, increases with years of service up to a maximum of 20 days.
  • Sick: Salaried staff, full-time hourly staff, and 12-month faculty accrue 12 days of sick leave per year; 10-month faculty accrues 10 days of sick leave per year.
  • Holidays: Salaried staff, full-time hourly staff, and 12-month faculty receive 19 paid holidays per year (this number may vary by 1–2 days depending on when a holiday may fall).
  • Personal: Salaried staff, full-time staff, and 12-month faculty receive 3 days of personal leave per fiscal year. Personal days are prorated based on start date.
  • Part-time employees will accrue one (1) hour of earned sick and safe leave ("ESS") for every 30 hours worked beginning on the first day of employment. Part-time employees may earn up to 40 hours of ESS each fiscal year (July 1 through June 30).

Education Benefits

Tuition Waiver

  • Full-time employees, their spouse, and dependents are eligible for tuition waiver after being employed for 90 days. Enrollment and eligibility are based on the terms of the Tuition Waiver Policy.
  • Part-time employees and adjunct faculty may qualify for tuition waiver for classes taken at Cecil College; eligibility requirements apply.

Tuition Reimbursement

  • Tuition reimbursement will be made available to all full-time College employees. Reimbursement will be awarded for approved courses applicable to programs of study that benefit either instruction or job effectiveness at Cecil College. Enrollment and eligibility are based on the terms of the Tuition Reimbursement Policy.

Textbook Reimbursement

  • Full-time employees may receive a textbook reimbursement per fiscal year. Such reimbursement is for course-required textbooks payable to employees who are enrolled in credit-division courses at Cecil College or other accredited institutions.

Degree Stipend

  • Full-time employees who earn an associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree, or doctoral degree from an accredited institution may be recognized with an academic stipend subject to the availability of funds. At least 50% of the instruction for the qualifying degree must be completed after initial employment as a full-time employee with the College.

Self-Funded Benefits

  • Short-term disability

    • In addition to being available for all full-time faculty and staff, part-time employees who work at least 20 hours a week will be eligible to enroll in Short-Term Disability.
  • Critical illness, accident, and hospitalization
  • Prepaid legal

The above-listed benefits are subject to employment status and/or eligibility guidelines.