Benefits

ICC partners with Bukaty Company to offer employees health, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, dependent & health care flexible spending accounts, and a health savings or health reimbursement account. Voluntary insurance plans such as hospital indemnity, accidental injury and critical illness plans are also available. Below is an overview of ICC’s benefit options. Please see the full benefit guide for additional information and details.

Effective January 1, 2026, new employees become eligible for insurance coverage on the first of the month following their date of hire.

Medical - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas offers employees coverage with two plan options. When you enroll, you select either Plan 1 PPO or Plan 2 HDHP. Both medical plans include 100% coverage for preventive services when using a Network provider, including annual preventive exams, age-appropriate immunizations, mammograms, colonoscopies, etc.

Dental - Delta Dental offers employees dental insurance coverage. Dental coverage is available to employees at no cost and to dependents at a low monthly rate.

Vision - Surency offers vision insurance coverage. Two plans are available to choose from depending on your family’s needs. Surency is a leading vision insurance company. Vision coverage is available to employees as well as dependents.

Optional Insurance Coverage through Bukaty - SunLife offers employees optional insurance plans at affordable monthly rates. You can select Hospital Indemnity insurance coverage, Accident insurance coverage, and/or Critical Illness insurance coverage. Cancer, Voluntary Life, and Short Term Disability are also available.

Retirement Plan - Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) administers the statewide retirement plan for state and local public employees. As a full-time ICC employee, participation in the KPERS retirement plan is mandatory starting on your first day of employment in a full-time position. Full-time employees are required to contribute 6% of their gross wage every payday. You are 100% vested in your KPERS account after five years of continuous employment.

• KPERS 1 - employees hired before July 1, 2009
• KPERS 2 - employees hired July 1, 2009 through December 31, 2014
• KPERS 3 - employees hired January 1, 2015 and after

In addition to a retirement plan, your KPERS account provides long-term disability insurance coverage and basic life insurance coverage at no cost to you. Basic life insurance policy equals 150% of your annual salary. Additional Optional Group Life Insurance is available for purchase through your KPERS account. For more information, contact a KPERS representative at 1-888-275-5737.

Optional Retirement Plans - ICC offers employees an opportunity to save for retirement through a 403(b) pre-tax plan or a ROTH plan through SEK Financial. Full-time employees can contribute a percentage or flat amount (subject to IRS rules) of their annual salary, in either a pre-tax or post-tax investment, if you choose to participate. Vesting is three years. For more information regarding 403b plans, please contact SEK Financial directly at (620) 223-5756.

 

Sick - All full-time non-faclty employees earn sick time beginning the first day of employment to a cumulative maximum of 15 days (120 hours per year).  Faculty members should refer to the Negotiated Agreement. Sick time is earned for eligible employees at a rate of 1.25 days per month for full-time exempt (non-faculty) employees and 10 hours per month for full-time non-exempt (non-faculty) employees.  The eligible employee may use sick time for the care of the employee's immediate family to include the spouse, significant other, parents (including in-laws), step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, grand-children, great grand-children, grandparents, great grand-parents, and other persons whose residence is in the home of the employee (Board Policy PSL-703).

Tuition, Fees, and Use of Books Benefit - Full-time employees, their spouse or life partner and their legal dependents may attend ICC classes free of charge. Special fees associated with coursework will be the responsibility of the enrollee (Board Policy PSL-706).

Vacation - All full-time non-faculty, non-coaching staff and continuing part-time non-exempt (hourly) employees earn vacation days/hours beginning the first day of thr month following the start of employment. After completion of one year of employment, continuing part-time non-exempt (hourly) employees earn up to a maximum of 20 hours of vacation pay per year (Board Policy PSL-707).

Exempt (salaried) Employees:
Continuous ICC Employment                   Monthly Accrual                        Maximum Annual Carryover
Less than five years                                     .83 days per month                     10 days
Five to nine years                                         1.25 days per month                   15 days
10 years and longer                                      1.67 days per mo                        20 days

Non-Exempt (hourly) Full-time Employees:
Continuous ICC Employment                    Monthly Accrual                        Maximum Annual Carryover
Less than five years                                      6.6 hours per mon                       80 hours
Five to nine years                                         10.0 hours per month                  120 hours
10 years and longer                                      13.3 hours per mont                    160 hours

Non-Exempt (hourly) Continuing Part-time Employees:
Continuous ICC Employment                    Monthly Accrual                         Maximum Annual Carryover
Less than one year                                       0 hours per month                        0 hours
More than one year                                      1.67 hours per month                   20 hours