New York Life Insurance Company

HQ
New York
Total Offices: 5
12,000 Total Employees
Year Founded: 1845

New York Life Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits

New York Life Insurance Company Employee Perspectives

New York Life Insurance supports employees through various life stages, including those who take career breaks for caregiving responsibilities. By offering structured return-to-work pathways, the company helps individuals transition back into their professional roles with confidence and support.

“Whether employees take a break to raise children or take care of parents, re-entering the workforce can be challenging. To help, New York Life has partnerships with the Financial Women’s Association’s (FWA) Back2Business Initiative, which helps our employees restart their careers after an absence.”

What People Are Saying About New York Life Insurance Company

  • Retirement Support: The package includes a 401(k) with company match alongside a defined‑benefit pension for many eligible roles, with contributions and the match vested from day one. That increasingly rare combination strengthens long‑term financial security.
  • Parental & Family Support: Paid New Parent leave was doubled to eight weeks for all parents, with birthing parents typically reaching up to about fourteen paid weeks when combined with short‑term disability. The offering also highlights fertility support, adoption assistance, and subsidized backup childcare.
  • Healthcare Strength: Medical, dental, and vision coverage are paired with spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and an EAP, with some plans including a company‑funded HRA and wellness incentives. Additional resources such as virtual care and digital physical therapy are noted.

New York Life Insurance Company's Benefits

Offers performance bonuses

Provides pay transparency

Provides relocation assistance

New York Life offers relocation assistance, including home finding, temporary housing, and moving costs and travel expense reimbursement.

Hosts company-sponsored family events

Offers childcare benefits

Provides a post-parental leave return-to-work program

Provides adoption assistance

Provides an onsite Mother's Room

Provides family medical leave

Provides fertility benefits

Offers dental insurance

Offers dependent care

Offers Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Offers health insurance

Offers healthcare on-site

Offers immediate health care coverage on employee start date

Offers mental health benefits

Offers vision insurance

Offers accidental death & dismemberment insurance

Offers charitable contribution matching

Offers disability insurance

Provides 401(K) matching

Provides a pension

Provides student loan assistance