Benefits at Merit America

As part of our commitment to excellence, Merit America focuses on fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just organization where our employees and learners are the priority. To demonstrate our commitment, this year we focused on formalizing our DEIJ strategy and increased our benefit offerings. We furthered our commitment to DEIJ by rolling out a comprehensive roadmap to develop our DEIJ strategy, as well as value-based competencies and an organization-wide inclusion handbook. We are partnering with a specialist to hold DEIJ town halls and to develop a strategy that is aligned with our employees' vision. Additionally, we formalized our DEIJ hiring practices and conducted an extensive compensation audit this year to ensure all of our employees are fairly compensated. We implemented an equitable compensation strategy where every employee with the same job title is paid the same salary, which is shared on the job description. Candidates are required to complete a simulation during the interview process, so the focus of the hiring process is on the individual's skills. We ensure 50% of final candidates identify as BIPOC and conduct final round panel interviews to reduce bias. As our organization continues to scale, we have focused on creating a work environment that allows us to recruit and retain exceptional employees. Our largest change was the transition to the four-day work week and resulting focus on shifting job responsibilities to ensure each employee could manage their responsibilities with one less work day. Our benefits also include: unlimited vacation, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a WFH home office stipend, a phone and computer stipend, a fully paid health reimbursement account, a personal development stipend / education reimbursement, multiple affinity groups, and many others. Additionally, our Co-CEOs and Executive Team are committed to fostering a transparent, team-oriented culture. Rebecca and Connor, our co-founders and co-CEOs, interview all final candidates and meet all new hires during their first couple weeks to share Merit America's vision and get to know them. Rebecca and Connor also hold bi-weekly all-hands and bi-weekly office hours for employees to ask any questions or present ideas. They also hold a virtual birthday lunch each month to celebrate employees’ birthdays. Finally, Merit America has an ongoing innovation challenge which encourages employees to present new ideas for an opportunity to earn a $2,500 grant to pilot new projects. This is in addition to the ongoing testing and learning encouraged for all Merit America employees that see an opportunity to improve the learner experience or our business.