Benefits

Empowering Your Future: Discover St. Mary’s Comprehensive Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance: We pay 100% of a full-time employee’s health insurance premiums along with a significant portion of the employee's dental premium. Employees may choose between two health insurance options, one dental plan, and a vision plan.
• Pretax Medical/Dental/Vision Expenses: We offer employees enrolled in our health insurance a significant contribution to a health savings account. Funds are added each pay period and may be used to pay for approved medical, dental, or vision expenses. We also offer a flexible savings account that can be utilized with or without enrolling in our health insurance.
• Retirement Plan: Eligible employees may contribute to a 403(b) Defined Contribution Retirement Plan immediately upon employment. St. Mary’s provides a generous match. All contributions, including the school's match, vest immediately.
• Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability: These plans are provided at no cost to the employee. In addition, employees may purchase additional term life insurance for their families.
• Access to Additional Insurance: Accident, short-term disability, critical illness/cancer policies are available for employee purchase.

Quality of Life Benefits

• Tuition Remission: Full-time employees receive a large reduction in the tuition for one daughter. For part-time faculty and staff, this benefit is reduced proportionally to time worked in a week.
• Discounted Lunch: Employees receive a reduced-price meal from SAGE Dining Service, available in both North and South campus dining halls.
• Nursery Program: Launching in August 2025, The Nest at St. Mary's is a 10-month nursery program primarily for employees. We will care for girls and boys, beginning six weeks old until they’re old enough to enroll in a two-year-old program at St. Mary’s or another school. Click here to learn more.
• Free After School Care: Auxiliary Programs at St. Mary’s offer free care until 4:30 p.m. for our full-time employees and their St. Mary’s daughters. Care is also available for daughters during in-service and parent/teacher conference days on a first-come, first-serve basis.
• Free and Discounted Summer Care: During the summer, Munchkin and Day Camps are free to your children during your working hours. Those not working in the summer receive a generous discount for Munchkin and Day Camps. Summer care is for boys and girls, ages 3 through rising 7th grade.
• Generous Vacation, Sick, and Personal Time: Faculty and most staff follow the students’ vacation schedules, which include one week for fall break, one week for spring break, and two weeks for winter break, in addition to holidays. Each full-time employee receives sick days and personal days. Any personal or sick time not used by July 31 rolls to the next school year with a maximum accumulation of 90 days. Year-round full-time employees receive additional vacation days; however, those days do not roll from year to year.
• Healthy Work Environment: Faculty and staff can access the Strength and Conditioning exercise facilities and wellness programs during specified hours.
• No-Interest Loans for Personal Technology: St. Mary’s offers no-interest loans for an employee’s purchase of technology for personal use.
• Buckman Performing Arts Center: Every St. Mary’s employee receives one free ticket to each Buckman show. The school also offers no-interest loans for an employee’s art purchase from the Levy Gallery. 

Professional Development

St. Mary's actively fosters a culture of lifelong learning among its faculty and staff. Teachers engage in collaborative practices by observing each other's classes, discussing educational methodologies, visiting diverse educational institutions, and attending conferences. Funding and release time are frequently accessible to support professional endeavors, including graduate studies, seminars, workshops, conferences, and meetings. These opportunities aim to stimulate professional growth, reignite enthusiasm, and invigorate the exchange of ideas within and across departments.