Faculty & Staff
Human Resources
Basic Employee Benefits - Full Time Classified & Service Staff
Vacation Time
Ten workdays earned per year through the fifth year of continuous service; 15 workdays earned per year the sixth through tenth year of continuous service; 20 workdays earned per year the eleventh through fourteenth year of continuous service; and 22 workdays earned per year beginning with the fifteenth year of continuous service.
College Holidays
Externally funded professional staff are granted a day off with pay for the following holidays (as observed by the College) when they fall on a regular workday. Externally funded hourly staff are paid for the following holidays (as observed by the College) provided the employee works a full workday the last regularly scheduled workday preceding and the first regularly scheduled workday after the holiday.
- New Year's Day
- Labor Day
- Martin Luther King's Birthday
- Thanksgiving Day
- Good Friday
- Friday after Thanksgiving
- Memorial Day
- Christmas Eve Day
- Independence Day
- Christmas Day through New Year's Day
The College officially is shut down between Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and full-time employees are paid their regular salaries during this period.
Sick Leave
Earned at the rate of eight hours per each full month of full-time employment.
Insurance
Optional group medical insurance, including dental and vision coverage, is available. For more information visit the Risk & Benefits website.
Life insurance is provided in the amount of double the employee's annual salary, rounded up to the nearest $500. Long-term disability insurance also is provided. Employees have the option to purchase additional life insurance in an amount equal to one times the employee?s salary, rounded up to the nearest $500 and have the option to purchase Optional AD&D insurance in various face amounts.
State Universities Retirement System (SURS)
Participation is mandatory the beginning date of employment. Contributions are deducted from the employee's earnings for retirement purposes.
- Full-time employees = 8.5% which includes .5% to fund Community College Health insurance
- Part-time employees = 8%
SURS new employees now have 6 months to make their Optional retirement plan choice.
Social Security & Medicare
Full-time employees do not pay into Social Security; however, individuals hired after April 1, 1986, must pay 1.45% of their earnings into Medicare.
Tuition Waivers
In-district tuition is waived for Illinois Central College credit courses only. The waiver extends to eligible family members (spouse and dependent children).