Benefits
Compensation
We structure our pay program to be market competitive. As appropriate, we include pay for locality, market conditions, hardship, and hazards. We also:
- Reward your skills and growth
Our people are rewarded for their contribution to the company and our customers' mission.
- Recognize your contribution
SAIC has programs for recognizing and rewarding notable contributions to your profession, the company, and your customers.
- Ensure fairness
SAIC's compensation programs comply with applicable federal and state laws and meet standards dictated by applicable audit entities.
Insurance
Benefits should provide peace of mind, support you and your family, and help you successfully navigate life events. We took all these elements into account when we developed our health and welfare benefit offerings.
Medical Plans
Comprehensive coverage for you and your family, including domestic partners, through several national preferred provider organization (PPO) and regional health maintenance organization (HMO) plans.
Dental Plans
Choose among different dental plan options, which include a national PPO plan and regional dental health maintenance organization (DHMO) plans.
Vision Plan
Choose to participate in a national Vision Service Plan.
Health Care Flexible Spending Account
Make pre-tax contributions to the account and obtain reimbursement for eligible medical, dental, vision, mental health, and pharmacy expenses.
Dependent Day Care Flexible Spending Account
Make pre-tax contributions to the account and obtain reimbursement for eligible day care expenses.
Company Provided Basic Term Life Insurance
Employee coverage is provided at 2 times your base annual salary up to a $500,000 maximum. Dependent coverage is provided at $2,000 per eligible dependent.
Supplemental Term Life Insurance
Employee coverage is available in amounts equal to ½, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times your base annual salary up to a $1,500,000 maximum. Spouse or registered domestic partner coverage is available at $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000. Child coverage is available at $5,000 and $10,000.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
Employee coverage is provided equal to your base annual salary up to $250,000. Also, Business Travel Accident Insurance is company provided with coverage up to 3 times your base salary up to $300,000. Several levels of Voluntary (employee paid) AD&D coverage are also available.
Disability Insurance Program
Your Disability Insurance Plan offers various components including: Disability Sick Leave (DSL), Voluntary Short Term Disability Insurance Plan (VSDI), SAIC Private California Disability (CAVPDI), Basic Long Term Disability Insurance (LTD), and Supplemental Long Term Disability Insurance.
Leave/Holidays
Time off is important to your well-being and essential to your personal pursuits. We offer several types of leave programs that add up to the time you need to live your life outside of your career.
Comprehensive Leave
As an eligible employee, you will be able to accrue comprehensive leave to use as paid time off for vacation, personal business, and short-term illness. You may also borrow up to 40 hours of comprehensive leave in advance of your accrual, with your manager's approval, or elect to cash-out up to 80 hours of accrued leave annually through our comprehensive leave cash payout program.
Holidays
Most SAIC employees are eligible for nine standard holidays during the year. This includes seven fixed holidays as well as two alternative holidays to be used at your discretion within certain limitations. Fixed holidays include:
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
Please note that holidays may vary based on contractual requirements.
Military Leave
You will have paid time off for annual reserve training, up to two weeks (10 working days) during each U.S. Government fiscal year (October to September). This leave policy also takes into consideration the difference in pay between your SAIC base salary and annual service pay.
Active Duty Reservist
We value our diverse background, and have the highest respect for those providing mission-critical expertise while serving the nation's armed forces. As an active duty reservist, we support your efforts in making the nation, and the world, a safer place to live and offer a balanced schedule to continue that mission. We provide military reservists with paid time off work and/or differential pay in order to meet service and training obligations. Whether called for a national emergency or requested for active duty, SAIC provides flexibility to serve where you are needed the most.
Jury Duty
When you are summoned for and serve jury duty, you will receive your full pay from SAIC.
Bereavement Leave
If you need to attend the funeral of an immediate family member, you will receive up to three days, fully paid, to do so.
Disability Sick Leave
80 hours (10 days) of Disability Sick Leave will be credited on the date of your hire, and on each anniversary date you will be credited with 80 hours (10 days) of available Disability Sick Leave up to a maximum accrual of 1,560 hours (195 days). Your Disability Sick Leave is integrated and paid in conjunction with disability programs for the first 26 weeks (180 days) of disability.
Retirement
The SAIC Retirement Plan can help make your journey to retirement a little easier. SAIC will match 100 percent of your contributions to the retirement plan up to 6 percent of your eligible compensation. Vesting of SAIC's company matching contributions made over five years of service.
More information, including match eligibility, is available on the SAIC Online Retirement Guide. The SAIC Retirement Plan features:
- Attractive company matching contribution
- Pre-tax and/or Roth 401(k) contributions
- Immediate eligibility for employee contributions and company matching contributions
- Both passive and active investment options from a wide selection of fund choices
- Investment advice services through Vanguard and Financial Engines
Additional Benefits
When it comes to offering programs that make your life easier — more is better. Consider these additional benefits and extras.
myWellness Program
myWellness is a free health and wellness program for SAIC's U.S. employees. It is designed to help you reach your goals through personally tailored health information and behavior change support. Services include an online, confidential health assessment; personal health coaching; and our comprehensive myWellness site with tools and trackers to help you reach your wellness goals. You can benefit from our myWellness healthy living programs in:
- Nutrition/diet
- Weight loss
- Fitness
- Stress relief
- Healthy aging
- Diabetes management
- Cancer management
- Healthy heart
- Smoking cessation
Health and Wellness
Some of our locations offer full-service wellness centers dedicated to enhancing your health. They feature a variety of cardiovascular and strength training equipment, as well as aerobics and group exercise. In addition, we facilitate discounts for gym memberships, health programs, and services.
Back-up Childcare
Back-up childcare is available at our McLean, Va., and San Diego, Calif., locations. The service is provided by Bright Horizons, and is for children ages 3 months to 13 years. Back-up childcare is in place for you when you have to work and your regular childcare is not available. You may use this benefit up to 20 days per child, per calendar year.
Employee Assistance Plan
We offer a confidential assessment and referral program designed to help you and your family deal with personal issues that may affect health, family life, or job performance. Assistance is available 24 hours per day.
Tuition Reimbursement
We offer tuition assistance to you as an eligible full-time employee through our Tuition Reimbursement Program. It's all part of how we encourage your development through formal education that enables you to improve or maintain job-related skills and enhance your ability to pursue other opportunities within the company. Approval of tuition reimbursement is dependent on business conditions and availability of discretionary funds within your SAIC organization.
Long-term Care
Employees are able to enroll in a group long-term care plan. This plan covers a variety of services needed by people who are unable to perform the activities of daily living. This includes care in a nursing home, an alternative care facility, an adult daycare center and/or care that is delivered in your own home. Benefits can be provided to you or your eligible family members.