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The Maryland State Personnel Management System understands the importance of family and children. Our family-friendly benefit practices and policies offer the support and flexibility you need at work and at home.

Career Development
Promotional opportunities are available as experience is gained.  Employees are encouraged to further their education with the tuition reimbursement program.  On the job experience exposes an employee to many different facets of the workings of state government.

Leave Benefits
Our generous leave package includes from ten to 25 days of annual (vacation) leave per year, depending on seniority, as well as six personal days each calendar year. In addition, the State offers eleven paid holidays and fifteen days of sick leave per year. Our leave policies also adhere to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993.

Health Coverage
When you come to work for the State of  Maryland, you and your family may benefit from our medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage. You may also be eligible for life, accidental death and dismemberment and long term care insurance plans at low group rates.

Reduced Child and Health Care Costs
Working for the Maryland State Personnel Management System entitles you to participate in Health Care and Day Care Flexible Spending Accounts. These plans allow you to save, on a pretax basis, for health care and day care costs incurred during the plan year.

Flexible Work Schedules
Employees of the State of Maryland typically work a forty-hour work week. Many State agencies offer their employees flexible work schedules. The Teleworking Program enables eligible state employees to work at home, at a satellite office, or at a Telework Center.

Retirement Benefits
Maryland State employees are eligible for participation in a contributory defined benefit pension plan in which they are vested after five years. State employees are also eligible to participate in two supplemental retirement plans: the 457 Deferred Compensation Plan and the 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Additional Benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement Program Direct Deposit

• U.S. Savings Bonds 

• State Employees Credit Union

• Employee Assistance Program Free transit services in the Baltimore Metropolitan area

• Paid vacations of two to five weeks a year based on years of State service, State and National holidays, paid sick leave, personal leave days, merit salary increases, retirement benefits, social security benefits and Workers' Compensation Insurance coverage.

• Employees have the opportunity to join group health insurance plans, partly subsidized by the State, the State Employees Credit Union, employee organizations, a group life insurance plan, a group accident insurance plan and a savings bond plan.

This information and more can be found in the Maryland State Employment Brochure.