Benefits

Paid Leave Benefits

• Semi–Monthly sick leave accrual of four (4) hours for full-time benefit eligible employees, may accumulate up to 680 hours
• Twenty four(24) hours of sick leave may be used per fiscal year for personal business
• Semi–Monthly catastrophic leave accrual of two (2) hours for full-time benefit eligible employees, may accumulate up to 1,000 hours 
• Semi–Monthly vacation leave accrual for full-time benefit eligible employees, starting at 3.334 hours per month based on years of service.  Maximum rollover per fiscal year is eighty (80) hours.

HCC offers up to 24 paid holidays for full–time, benefits-eligible employees which include:

• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Break (2 days)
• Winter Break (10 days)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• President’s Day
• Spring Break (5 days)
• Spring Holiday
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day

Health

Eligible HCC employees and their eligible dependents are offered Health coverage by the Texas Employees Group Benefits Program through the Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS).  Currently, there are two plans an employee may choose.  HealthSelect of Texas POS Plan and Consumer Directed HealthSelect High Deductible Plan.

Health Details

Dental

You and your dependents can enroll in either Dental Plans:

• State of Texas Dental Choice Plan (PPO) administered by Delta Dental; or
• DeltaCare USA (DHMO), administered by DeltaCare, an affiliation of Delta Dental

Dental Details

Vision

You and your eligible dependents can enroll in the State of Texas Vision

Vision Details

Optional Benefits

• Dependent Term Life Insurance - Life insurance coverage available for eligible dependents which pays $5,000 in the event of your dependent’s death.
• Optional Life Insurance - Optional Term Life Insurance provides insurance coverage up to four times your annual salary (maximum of $400,000).
• Short Term Disability - Short-Term Disability will pay up to 66 percent of your monthly insured salary if illness or injury prevents you from working. Benefits can be paid up to five months. Eligibility for payments requires you to be certified disabled by a physician. 
• Long-Term Disability – Long Term Disability will pay up to 60 percent of your monthly insured salary if illness or injury prevents you from working. Length of benefits payments depends on your age at the onset of the disability.

Dependent Term Life Details

Optional Term Life Details

Short and Long Term Disability Details

TexFlex

TexFlex is a flexible spending account (FSA) that allows employees to defer money from each paycheck, pre-tax to use for eligible out of pocket expenses.  An employee can participate in both in both Flexible Spending Accounts for Healthcare and Dependent Care.  The Healthcare account reimburses you for eligible healthcare expenses and the Dependent Care account reimburses you for eligible child (13 years or younger) and adult care expenses. 

HCC also offers Commuter Spending Accounts (CSA). CSA allows you to set aside pre-tax money from your paycheck to use for eligible parking and transit expenses. An employee can participate in both Parking Accounts and Transit Accounts. For more information contact the Benefits staff at 713-718-2255 or hrbenefits@hccs.edu.

TexFlex Details

Retirement

 Social Security and Medicare TaxWhile Houston Community College does not participate in the federal Social Security program, employees hired after 1986 are required by law to pay the Medicare Tax of 1.45%, which is matched by the College. For more information, contact the Benefits Office or The Social Security Administration.