Let’s talk benefits

I pay $356 every 2 weeks for family health plan with a $4000 deductible. Our deductible was $3000 last year but they raised it in lieu of raising our payroll deductions.
Dental family plan is $72.26 every 2 weeks, but it doesn't cover too much.
I don't even bother with the vision plan.
No 401k, but do have a profit sharing plan. I only get 1 statement per year, and that statement is actually for the prior year. So the profit sharing plan could get run into the ground and I wouldn't know until the following year.
1 week PTO after 1 year, 2 weeks after 2 years.
I do get a company cell phone that I get to pick with unlimited data. They also just gave me a new blue tooth headset, but I have had my current one for about 10 years.
I also get to take my work truck home most nights, so that saves me alot of gas money and wear and tear on my car.
I am coming up on my 20 year anniversary, thinking about asking my boss for another week of vacation. I don't understand why the only 2 week vacation limit, I have heard from a reliable source that a few people who have been with the company over 25 years do have 3 weeks.

 

$6.53 a week with for $2000 yearly dental work.

$26.63 for the medical. I dont even know if we have a deductible, but we have very modest copayments.

 

Before Chocolate Jesus and the Mad King changed the definition of, "insurance" to an optional tax for people with short memories and poor math skills I paid $50/mo. for a policy with a $100 annual deductible. I can now pay $150/wk for a policy with a $5,000 deductible. Meanwhile, a bunch of junkies and layabouts got, "free" insurance and the health insurance companies DOUBLED their profits!

 

I was paying about $40/week solo for an 80/20 Blue Cross Blue Shield full coverage health insurance + VSP vision + dental at a big company. I think my tanker company was charging $55 per week for solo coverage. My last employer had no benefits.