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Benefits and well-being

Our benefits package is designed for you and your family to live well and feel well.

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Join a team that helps you thrive in your professional and personal life – physically, mentally and financially.

The benefits of working at Ontario Teachers’

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Pay for performance

Our compensation programs are competitive and designed to attract and retain the best talent—people like you—while giving flexibility to your manager to reward you based on your direct contribution to our strategy. Our pay for performance philosophy means we reward individual performance goals and behaviours as well as organizational and divisional achievements. 

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Learning for life

Trailblazers are lifelong learners. It's important to embrace this rapidly evolving world and grow right along with it. To do this, we offer a variety of professional development experiences to help you continue to learn and expand your skills, including our leading-edge Teachers' Academy. No matter where you are in your career journey, we want to help you grow.

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Being well

Well-being is at the forefront here because we care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Our benefits packages include mental health support. We also have a generous Employee Assistance Program and personal days designed to help you achieve balance. Year-round, our Employee Resource Group (ERG) are committed to shining a spotlight on mental and physical health. For example, our Women@Teachers' ERG hosts a special series featuring experts on women's health, with topics ranging from fertility to menopause.

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Our benefits packages for full-time employees may differ based on region or employment status.

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Health benefits

We offer competitive medical, dental and mental health benefits packages, comprehensive prescription drug plans, a flexible wellness account, access to 24/7 virtual care, private hospital room coverage and more.

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Flexible work

Our Flexible Travel Program enables talent to work from another country one month out of the year. We recognize the value of working from home and coming together in the office. Offering flexibility to strike the right balance is key.  

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Personal & wellbeing days

We know you have a life beyond work. We offer time away to focus on things that matter most, with generous vacation and personal days, a paid holiday shutdown and global wellbeing days every year.

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Retirement plans

We offer competitive retirement programs in each of the regions we operate in. In Canada, we offer a defined benefit pension plan -  a guaranteed pension for life!

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Parental leave

We’re here to support you when you expand your family. We offer parental leaves for both parents and pay 93 per cent of your salary for the first 17 weeks.

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Deferring your annual incentive

In most regional offices, you can allocate up to 100 per cent of your annual incentive or bonus to earn the return from our fund performance.

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Tuition reimbursement

When it comes to your success, we're invested in you. Our tuition reimbursement program helps you achieve your educational goals.

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Family support

In alignment with our values and our commitment to DE&I, we offer market-leading benefits to support adoption, surrogacy and gender affirmation procedures.