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Paid time off and sick leave separate banks
They have a disability retirement program
Extremely good insurance options, a fair amount of leave, all but 1 major holiday off, very good benefits overall.
You get a retirement plan PLUS a 401k!
The hospital in Richmond are not for new graduate hire in the nursing field. I feel that the state benefits are better. The annual accrual is slightly better than the state. The state retirement is better only with VRS.
Great benefits. The best in the country
401k, good health Benefits to choose from and a variety.
They have the best benefits
They offer 1% automatic in tsp in plans and match 4%- so if you allocate 5% to your tsp- the va will match 5%. Then you have fers retirement, depending on how many years (min 5 years), takes your 3 highest salaries (consecutively) times how manny years divide by 1% or 1.1%
So many things have changed and the cost of health insurance just keeps going up.