Summary of Benefits

• Benefits Summary (PDF) 
  • Effective January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023
• Individuals may obtain a form 1095-C upon request or by logging into their Employee Self Service site. Please contact Ms. Price jprice@texascitytx.gov or 409-643-5930 with any questions or requests.
• Employee Self Service online

Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS)

This program begins upon employment. The employee contributes 7% of salary, tax-deferred and the City matches with a 2 to 1 ratio. Provides retirement benefits after 20 years regardless of age or age 60 with five-year vesting.

• Phone: 800-924-8677
• TMRS website
• TMRS forms online

Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

Begins after three months' probation.

• Cigna
  • Cigna - Medical
  • Cigna Website
  • Phone: 800-244-6224
  • https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files
  • This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
• Core Plan Summary (PDF)
• HDHP Summary (PDF)
• Metlife - Dental (PDF)
  • Phone: 800-438-6388
  • Dental Plan (PDF)
• Metlife - Vision (PDF)
  • Phone: 1-855-METEYE1 (638-3931)
  • Vision Plan (PDF)
• Flexible Spending Account
  • Pamphlet (PDF)
  • Phone: 800-930-2441
  • Email
• Urgent care clinics
  • These clinics accept City of Texas City insurance; they charge $35 per visit in lieu of ER charges. The locations are:
    • Clinics in and Around Texas City (PDF)
• Allstate - Supplemental Insurance
  • Supplemental Insurance Information online
  • Phone: 800-521-3535
  • Fax: 866-781-1871

Life / AD&D

• AD&D Benefit of $250,000
• Line of Duty Benefit (police only) Maximum $50,000
• Begins after six months (excludes firefighters)
• Group Life
• 3 times salary up to a $150,000 maximum

Voya (ReliaStar Life Insurance Company)

• Phone: 800-955-7736

Employee Assistance Program

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (PDF)

Long-term Disability Insurance

• 60% of Salary - maximum benefit $6,000
• Begins after six months of probation

Social Security

• The city is not in Social Security. The employee pays the 1.45% Medicare portion only.

Deferred Compensation Plan

Employees may make voluntary tax-deferred contributions to either a fixed annuity or variable annuity (no City match).

• First Financial, AUL, and Lincoln
  • Heather Pugh
  • 11811 N Freeway
    Suite 855
    Houston, Texas 77060
  • Phone: 281-272-7455
• Nationwide
  • Nationwide Retirement Solutions Website
  • Phone: 888-401-5272
  • Brian White Phone: 713-898-0249
• Roth 457 Account

Holidays

Eleven paid holidays per year:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving
• Day after Thanksgiving
• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day

Vacations

Hired Prior to January 1, 2016:

• 5 days after 1 year
• 10 days - 2 through 7 years
• 20 days - 8 through 17 years
• 24 days - 18 + years

Hired on or after January 1, 2016:

• 10 days - Up to completion of 1 year
• 10 days - 1 through 7 years
• 15 days - 8 through 17 years
• 20 days - 18 through 24 years
• 25 days - 25+ years

Full-time employees will earn and are eligible to begin using 5 days of vacation after successfully completing their six-month probationary period. On the employee's one-year anniversary date an additional 5 days will be granted and must be used before the end of the calendar year.

Vacation differs for firefighters and police.

Sick Leave

Accrue 1 day per month (12 days per year). Starting January 1, 2016, sick leave can be used for an illness or injury of a member of an employee's immediate family as well as the employee. Immediate family is defined as a current spouse, child, or parent that depends on you for care.

Differs for firefighters and police.

Education Pay

• $150 per month for a Master's Degree
• $100 per month for a Bachelor's Degree
• $50 per month for an Associate's Degree

Applies to full-time employees only.

Bilingual Pay

After six months' probation and City of Texas City Tester certification - $75 per month