21 perks at work you can get on top of your pay🎉 –
Introduction 👋
When it comes to getting a job, how much you get paid is really important. 💵
BUT
Sometimes workplaces won’t increase pay – but might offer you other perks instead. 🎁
These perks could even be worth more than a pay rise!
Today we’re going to show you 21 other benefits that you can get from a job, that don’t involve your pay.
1. Paid holidays 🏖️
How many days would you want to take off work every year – but still get paid?
20? 25?
Why not even 30? 📆
Some organisations will give you extra paid holiday days off work (Also called “annual leave”. )
You might even get a bonus day off for your birthday. 🥳
2. Discounts 🏷️
Love a good discount? 💸
Lots of workplaces will give you discounts!
You might get discounts on things like:
- Clothes 👕
- Food and drink 🍔
- Supermarket shopping 🛒
- Holidays 🏖️
- Transport 🚄
3. Free food and drinks 🍕
Do you love free food and drinks? 🥤🧁
Lots of workplaces might offer things like:
- Free tea, coffee and fruit 🍎🍊🍌
- Pizza parties 🍕
- Drink fridges 🥤
- Free meals 🍛
4. Eye tests 👀
It’s important to look after your eye health, and some employers help with this! 🧐
You could be offered things like:
- Free eye tests (paid for by your workplace) 🤓
- Discounts on (or free) glasses 😎
5. Bonuses 💷
Who loves free, extra money? 💸
Whilst it might not be possible to increase your pay/salary permanently, a workplace might offer you bonuses as a reward.
These could be up to several thousand pounds! 💰
Some workplaces might even give you a bonus every year.
6. Flexible pay 💳
Want to get paid more regularly? 🔁
Some workplaces will let you choose how frequently you’re paid. 💸
This could mean getting paid every week, 2 weeks, or monthly! 📆
7. Pension contributions💰
Pension schemes are a type of long-term savings plan. 🐷
You save some of your pay regularly whilst you’re working. 🌱
This gives you money to live off in later life, when you want to work less or retire. 🌳
There are different types of pension schemes —
Some might be set up by your employer, others you can set up by yourself. 🙋♀️
If your employer sets up a pension for you this is called a workplace pension. 💼
A lot of workplaces offer free pension contributions, depending how much you put in. 💸
For example, if you pay 8% of your salary into your pension savings, your employer might double that, meaning every year an amount equal to 16% of your salary is going towards retirement. 💸💸💸
How cool is that? 😲
That could be a crazy amount of free money from your employer, which might grow over time with your pension investments 🤑🪴
Why pensions are important ✅
It is important to consider investing in pensions because they:
- give you a steady income for the rest of your life 🌇
- help to make sure that your family is taken care of financially 👪
- give you security and peace of mind when you’re retired 🧘
- help you build wealth over time (people can make a lot of money from pension investments!) 📈
8. Bike schemes 🚲
Do you love cycling? 🚵♀️
Some workplaces will help you to cycle by offering you things like:
- Free bikes to ride to work
- Discounts on bikes
- Loans to buy a bike
9. Fun! 🪅
Work can take up a lot of your time and energy.
It can feel really draining if work isn’t fun! 😭
Workplaces can make work more fun by doing things like:
- organising social events 🍹
- giving you games rooms e.g. table tennis, snooker, consoles 🎮
- having a casual dress code 👕
- organising sports days 🎾
- giving you opportunities to be creative at work 🎨
- playing music 🎵
- organising team holidays 🏖️
- letting everyone finish early on Fridays ⌚
10. Healthcare 🩺
When you’re ill, getting private healthcare can make a huge difference. 🤒
It might mean that you get treatments more quickly, or that you’ll be made more comfortable when you’re unwell. 🛌
Some workplaces might pay for private healthcare for you, or offer discounts on private healthcare. 👩⚕️
11. Gyms 🏋️
Do you love going to the gym? 💪
Some workplaces will help you spend time at the gym by:
- putting gyms at the office 🏢
- giving you free gym memberships
- offering you discounts on gym memberships 🏃♀️
12. Training 👩🏫
If you’ve got career goals, a lot of workplaces can help you reach them. 🏆
Work can help you with training by:
- Paying for you to do training courses and qualifications
- Helping you get professional certificates (sometimes even university degrees! 🎓)
- Giving you time off work to study (sometimes they’ll still pay you as well!) 📚
- Letting you “shadow” other people at work to learn from them
- Giving you work experience in other parts of the workplace 💼
13. Flexi time ⌚
Do you love having lie ins? 🛌😴
Or maybe you’re someone who likes to work early in the morning, to have more time free later on? 🌅
Some workplaces will give you “flexi time” – so that you can change your working hours, to be more flexible.
This could include things like:
- Working longer hours so that you can take more days off
- Starting work earlier in the day
- Finishing work earlier in the day
- Adjusting your work hours to suit childcare
14. Travel ✈️
Do you want to travel the world? 🌍
Some workplaces will help you travel!
Your workplace could help you travel by:
- Having different offices around the world for you to visit 🏢
- Making travel part of your role 🛥️
- Paying for company “away days” in different locations
- Giving you discounts on travel e.g. unlimited bus passes, train tickets 🚆
- Paying for you to do training abroad
- Giving you a company car 🚗
15. Charity support 🌍
Do you love supporting charity?
Some workplaces will help you to support charities by doing things like:
- Regular fundraising for charity 💷
- Giving you paid time off to volunteer for charity 🤗
16. Culture 🤗
Some workplaces will work really hard to create an atmosphere where you feel valued, respected, and supported on the job.
This is called the “workplace culture“.
Wellbeing 💖
Some workplaces will go above and beyond to support your wellbeing! 🚀
This can involve things like:
- Offering mental health days off work 🧠
- Setting up “Employee Assistance Programmes” that offer things like free legal advice, wellbeing advice, and counselling
- Giving staff “wellbeing days” to take a break 🏖️
- Training managers on how to support your wellbeing at work
- Encouraging employees to stay active at work, and take regular breaks 🏃♀️
Inclusivity 🏳️🌈✊🏿
The research is in. 👩🏿🔬
Diverse organisations (organisations full of lots of different people), are more likely to be successful. 🏆
This means that workplaces are really keen to support people who are different and make you feel included, regardless of your:
- Age 🧓
- Gender 🧑🏻🤝🧑🏾
- Ethnicity 💖
- Religion 🙏
- Disability ♿
- Sexual orientation 🌈
- Education 🎓
- National origin 🌍
This can involve things like:
- Supporting LGBTQIA+ events like Pride Month 🌈
- Giving people flexible work hours ⌚
- Supporting religious holidays and significant days 🙏
- Creating diversity networks, to help people to connect e.g. women’s networks, BAME networks, LGBTQIA+ networks
- Encouraging people to mentor and learn from each other e.g. “reverse mentoring”, where younger people mentor older people 💞
- Ensuring that office spaces are accessible for disabilities e.g. braille signs, wheelchair accessibility
- Educating employees about diversity, and how to be inclusive 🫂🌍
- Making sure that hiring, promotion and dismissal decisions don’t discriminate against people e.g removing names/ages/gender/addresses from job applications
- Supporting people’s choice in which pronouns (e.g. they/them/she/her/he/him) they want to be called – some organisations encourage staff to put their preferred pronouns on their name badges (if they’re comfortable) instead of assuming them 💖
- Offering non-gendered bathrooms (bathrooms which anyone can use)🚻🚽
17. Job sharing 🤝
If you want more free time, but don’t want to quit your job, some workplaces will let you start a job share!
This means that the organisation will hire an extra person to “share” your job with you.
You could halve your work hours, without needing to quit! ⌚
18. Company shares 🍰
If you work for a business, they might be able to offer you company shares.
This means that you would own small slices of the business. 🔪
You could sell these slices of the business to make money! 💸
Over time the value of these “company slices” might increase, so you could make a lot of money from selling them 💰
19. Pet friendly workplaces 🐶
Have you got a furry friend that you’d like to take to work with you? 🐈
Some workplaces are pet friendly, so you can bring your pet to work!
20. Working from home 🏠
If you hate commuting to work, there are places that will let you work from the comfort of your own home! 🛋️
21. Career ladders 🪜
If you’re keen to “move up the career ladder” quickly to earn more money, some workplaces offer regular opportunities to get promoted. 👩💼💸
Conclusion 👍
So that’s it!
You can get extra job perks like:
- Paid holidays 🏖️
- Discounts 🏷️
- Free food and drinks 🍕
- Eye tests 👀
- Bonuses 💷
- Flexible pay 💳
- Pension contributions💰
- Bike schemes 🚲
- Fun! 🪅
- Healthcare 🩺
- Gyms 🏋️
- Training 👩🏫
- Flexi time ⌚
- Travel ✈️
- Charity support 🌍
- Culture 🤗
- Job sharing 🤝
- Company shares 🍰
- Pet friendly workplaces 🐶
- Working from home 🏠
- Career ladders 🪜
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