Eligibility & Timing
Benefits begin on the 1st of the month, 30 days after your start date.
For example, if your start date is September 9, 30 days after your start date is October 9. Therefore, benefits begin on November 1.
Employees, spouses, and dependents up to age 26 are eligible for benefits! Classified employees working 0.625 FTE (25 hours per week), Certified employees, and administrators working 0.75 FTE (30 hours per week) or more are eligible for benefits.
For questions about staff benefits, please contact us at benefits@tempeschools.org or call (480) 730-7108.
Core Benefits

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Employee Wellness
Employee Wellness is more than just fitness.
Improving the lives of our employees have serious implications in our students' outcomes. That's why we place a high value on work/life balance. Many of our employees seek a positive work culture and environment where they feel appreciated, listened to, have the right materials and tools, recognition, development opportunities and a motivating purpose in their work.
Our comprehensive, data-driven wellness program is designed to support well-being and promote preventative care and bring health-costs down for all employees, assisting in building thriving lives with the help of each other and our partners.
What our employees look for
Sandra Barrat
Wellness Coach
Wellness Benefits
8 wellness programs, grouped into 2 sections of 4. Keep scrolling — the lane moves sideways — and open any point for the detail.
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Recognition

Healthiest Employers
Phoenix Business Journal · 2024

Ranked #1 in Education
Ranking Arizona · 2026
Tempe Elementary Schools is the first public elementary school district in the state of Arizona to offer PAID Parental Leave!