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Our people are one of our most valuable assets. We do our best to take care of them, or more accurately, help them take care of themselves. The healthier and happier our employees are, the more engaged and productive they are and the better they can support our customers. Benefits are available for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and for the children of employees, spouses or domestic partners. Part-time employees working 20-29 hours a week are also eligible for benefits.
We offer a wide range of positive opportunities for our employees from excellent benefits to competitive compensation; from exceptional training and growth opportunities to a safe and invigorating work environment; from excellent recognition programs to discounts and resources that help employees both at and away from the office.
Sprint offers a competitive salary structure and provides an environment where employees are rewarded for their contributions, abilities and results. Our job categories are broad with wide pay ranges that emphasize development, and encourage our employees to expand their skills, accept new responsibilities and set aggressive challenges. This strategy reduces organizational layers between our frontline, customer-facing employees and our leadership, which speeds decision-making and better empowers employees.
Sprint benchmarks to median market values and aligns pay structures based on the job function as well as the unique skills, knowledge and ability of each person. All employees are tied to the success of the company through enterprise-wide success metrics and/or through sales goal incentive compensation programs. In addition, Sprint executives are tied to a long-term equity incentive plan that provides increased earning potential with improved business performance. The mix of at-risk compensation increases as an executive moves from director into more senior officer ranks. Sprint pays its employees on a bi-weekly basis.
Benefits are an important part of the partnership between an employer and its employees, and at Sprint, we offer a competitive selection of award-winning benefits that encourages healthy, responsible behavior for our employees and their dependents both on and off the job. At Sprint, our Total Rewards program offers employees and their eligible dependents benefits and services to fit their diverse lifestyles. Sprint benefits include wireless phone service, health care coverage, financial support, professional and career development, and many other options to address the range of employee needs.
Sprint’s benefits include:
Benefits are available for all full-time employees (97 percent of Sprint's workforce) and most part-time employees. Benefits are also available for employees' eligible dependents, including spouses, children, and same- and opposite-sex domestic partners and their children. Sprint's part-time employees (just 3 percent of the workforce currently) who are regularly scheduled to work between 20 and 39 hours per week, have access to all of the benefits that our full-time employees have with the exception of 3 programs: adoption assistance, relocation assistance and business travel accident insurance. Generally speaking, these employees don't need relocation and do not travel on business.
Sprint has a small percentage of employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours of work per week. These employees currently represent just 0.15 percent of our workforce, and they have access to a smaller set of benefits including our voluntary benefits program, financial planning, 401(k), employee assistance program, rewards and recognition program, and our employee discount portal.
Additional information about our overall commitment to employee health and safety can be found here.
Sprint's current suite of benefits is the result of a history of innovation in this important area. As employee and business needs have changed over the years, our benefits have remained progressive and employee-focused.
As early as 1985, we saw the need to provide employees with a safe, convenient place to exercise and become healthy, and opened our first on-site fitness center in Reston, Va. Since that time, we've opened additional fitness centers in other employee locations, and have opened two on-site health centers capable of providing medical examinations, consultation, treatment and physical therapy. For more information on our employee-wellness efforts, click here.
Sprint merged with Nextel in 2005 and took advantage of this opportunity to enhance our benefits with several more innovative options. Sprint became an early adopter of domestic-partner benefits, building on the offering that Nextel already had in place. Sprint also began offering non-smoking employees a discount on their medical premiums. That same year, Sprint began using a pay-based scale when setting benefit premiums ensuring that even as health care costs were rising across the country, lower paid employees would bear less of the burden of this increase than higher paid employees.
Sprint’s benefits and related employee-focused programs have helped Sprint receive accolades from many external sources including Conceive Magazine, CivilianJobs.com, G.I. Jobs Magazine, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Business Group on Health.