New Careers and Making Benefit Demands - Continued

• Petty cash accounts, expense accounts for traveling or entertaining
• Health club memberships
• Preventative health screenings
• Home entertainment allowances
• Flex time allowances on certain days

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement matching
• Automatic paycheck deposits
• Credit union memberships
• Ability to take a loan with the business backing
• Mortgages at low interest
• Lunch expense account
• Medical expense reimbursements
• Child care reimbursements
• Fully functioning office
• Personally decorated office
• Special parking privileges
• Valet parking
• Smokers area
• Personal tax services for employees
• Personal legal services for employees
• Retirement counseling
• Medical counseling
• Marriage counseling
• Private secretaries
• Severance pay packages
• Quarterly bonuses
• Tickets to sporting events
• Tickets to musicals
• Company parties

Extra vacation time Benefits and perks are special by nature. They are in addition to your regular salary, and the paycheck that you take home every week. If you want more for your time when you are thinking about the career that you are in, consider asking for more benefits, more perks, and when you are working on the details of a promotion – never be afraid to ask for more. The employer already realizes what type of asset you are or you wouldn’t be getting a promotion. Ask for a few benefits and take advantage of everything that you can get to feel great about your job and your career!