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Health and wellness support<\/a>, professional development funding<\/a>, caregiving assistance<\/a>, and remote-work reimbursements<\/a> are now common components of competitive benefits programs. These stipends are typically funded monthly, quarterly, or annually and give employees flexibility to use benefit dollars in ways that reflect their real lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But with so many potential categories and structures<\/a>, deciding what to offer \u2014 and how to design it \u2014 can feel overwhelming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this guide, we\u2019ve compiled 53 real-world examples of employee stipends from leading organizations across industries. You\u2019ll see how companies structure their programs, which categories appear most frequently, and how flexible Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs)<\/a> can consolidate multiple stipends into one streamlined solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Deloitte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Deloitte, one of the \u201cbig four\u201d accounting organizations, offers its employees an annual well-being subsidy (that now includes Legos and puzzles as an approved expense).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well-being subsidy:<\/strong> $1,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Slate <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Social media and content creation platform Slate offers its employees a wellness stipend. Recently, one of their executives went viral on LinkedIn for requesting to add \u201ccleaning services\u201d to the list of covered expenses, and her HR team approved!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Health and wellness stipend (including cleaning services):<\/strong> $250\/month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. LinkedIn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The professional social network LinkedIn may exist to help people improve their careers, but they\u2019re all about helping their employees live a holistic life, both in and out of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wellness stipend:<\/strong> $2,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Microsoft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft, the technology company, offers a Perks+ program that provides employees up to $1,500 per year (for corporate employees) in reimbursements for physical, mental, and emotional, and financial well-being. This stipend covers various expenses like gym memberships, nutrition, caregiving services, and financial planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft Perks+: <\/strong>Up to $1,500\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Eventbrite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventbrite offers its employees a comprehensive, remote-first benefits package that includes a monthly wellness stipend, fertility\/family planning support up to $30,000, and free annual subscriptions to Urban Sitter and Grayce to support and care for loved ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits: <\/strong>Wellness stipend, fertility and family planning, and caregiving<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Lose It!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lose It!, the app that helps users track diet and count calories, offers its employees a monthly stipend to use on gym memberships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gym stipend:<\/strong> $90\/month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Facebook, the social media app, offers its employees a wellness stipend of up to $2,000 per year. The stipend can be used for mental wellness, childcare, pet care, elder care, education, and tax planning. This is on top of their already comprehensive benefits packages, which include on-site wellness centers, mental health support, free meals, and flexible, often remote-friendly, work arrangements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wellness stipend:<\/strong> $2,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Jellyvision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This Chicago-based technology company with a remote-work model moved from managing fragmented benefits with spreadsheets to Compt\u2019s flexible benefits platform<\/a>. Now, more than 90% of employees use their quarterly stipend for things like home-office support, wellness, and even a specific therapy allowance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Case study:<\/strong> Quarterly wellness stipend used by 90% of employees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Rewind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rewind, a data protection software company, offers up to $2,000 CAD annually for employees to spend on wellness, fitness, or home-office\/home-comfort expenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wellness and professional development allowance:<\/strong> $2,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. New Belgium Brewing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n New Belgium Brewing offers its employees $1,500 to apply towards any wellness-related service including massage therapy and hypnosis to quit smoking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wellness stipend:<\/strong> $1,500\/year<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Snap Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Snap Inc. (of the popular social media app Snapchat) provides a comprehensive, evolving benefits package that includes subscriptions to One Medical and Lyra in addition to an unspecified well-being reimbursement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits:<\/strong> Subscription access and a well-being reimbursement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. TEN7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TEN7, a fully remote UX and Drupal agency, offers employees a robust lifestyle benefits program including $100 annual mental wellness stipend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Case study:<\/strong> Stipends for tech, mental wellness, and professional development<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Quickbase<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quickbase, the AI-powered operations platform, gives employees a $1,250 annual wellness benefit to reimburse thousands of purchases, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Case study:<\/strong> $1,250\/year<\/a> wellness stipend <\/p>\n\n\n\n Results: impact in action from Quickbase<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Adobe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Employees can receive up to $600 per calendar year for wellness-related expenses (e.g., fitness classes, gym memberships, apps). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well-being stipend:<\/strong> $600\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. PerfectKeto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n They offer a variety of perks and stipends, including $150\/mo for healthy food, $250\/mo for fitness, and mindfulness subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fitness and healthy food stipends:<\/strong> $400\/month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. Qualtrics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Up to $300 USD (or local equivalent) per quarter for wellness-related expenses, plus other lifestyle benefits related to experiences and family support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wellness stipend:<\/strong> $300\/quarter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. Spotify<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Spotify offers all employees access to confidential counseling sessions, wellness coaching, guided mediations, and self-paced courses through their Modern Health program, as well as a food allowance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits:<\/strong> Wellness and food<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Slack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Slack\u2019s Rising Tides program offers diverse emerging leaders a six-month sponsorship program focused on career development. Program participants receive training, executive coaching, and one-on-one sponsorship with a Slack executive team member, with a focus on building their network of peers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Development program:<\/strong> Rising Tides<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. Buffer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to a $20\/month learning stipend, Buffer offers an annual $250 reimbursement benefit specifically for the team to experiment with AI tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Professional development stipends:<\/strong> $20\/month learning<\/a>, $250\/year for AI tools<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Help Scout<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Help Scout\u2019s compensation package<\/a> supports their employees with an annual \u2018Learn Something\u2019 stipend of up to $1,800 per year once they\u2019ve been with the company for six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn Something stipend:<\/strong> $1,800\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. Balsamiq<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Balsamiq gives each employee a personal budget for professional development, co-working spaces, office supplies, and get-togethers with colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perks:<\/strong> Include \u201cpersonal budgets\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 22. Galvanize<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Galvanize, a software development platform, offers its employees up to $5,000 per calendar year for graduate and undergraduate studies plus additional financial assistance for continuing education and certifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing education:<\/strong> $5,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 23. The Engine is Red<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Creative agency The Engine is Red gives its employees an annual educational stipend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Educational stipend:<\/strong> $400\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 24. Indico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Indico offers its employees a comprehensive employee benefits package featuring a $1,000 annual professional development\/education stipend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professional development stipend: <\/strong>$1,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 25. MasterClass<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This online learning company practices what it preaches, offering free access to MasterClass courses and the ability to gift memberships to loved ones. Development dollars are also provided every 6 months for things like career coaching or books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits:<\/strong> Professional development dollars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 26. TEN7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TEN7 offers a flexible LSA offering employees up to $250 for professional development and a $3,600 professional coaching stipend for their leadership team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Case study:<\/strong> Up to $3,850\/year<\/a> depending on role <\/p>\n\n\n\n 27. Adobe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Employees at Adobe can receive up to $1,000 per year for conferences, workshops, and courses, plus $10,000 per year for tuition, books, and fees for accredited degree programs (undergraduate, graduate, PhD, MBA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits:<\/strong> Professional development stipend<\/a> and learning fund<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 28<\/strong>. Bending Spoons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Technology company Bending Spoons offers an unlimited budget for learning and training resources, as long as employees \u201cact in the best interests of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Backing for learning investments:<\/strong> Unlimited<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 29. The Motley Fool<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Employees are offered up to $5,250 each year for an accredited course or certification related to their role at The Motley Fool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tuition reimbursement: <\/strong>$5,250\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 30. Hinge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hinge, a popular dating app software, offers US-based employees a $3,000 annual learning and development stipend after three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learning and development stipend: <\/strong>$3,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 31. Relativity Space<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Relativity Space Inc. develops manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles, and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services. Their benefits package includes generous parental leave and provides a $10,000 stipend for fertility, adoption, and other family-building benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Family-building benefits: <\/strong>$10,000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 32. Buffer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Known widely for its transparency, Buffer offers its employees an extra $3,000 USD per year per child, up to four dependents total, for supporting childcare related needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dependent grant: <\/strong>$3,000\/year for dependent children<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 33. Adobe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adobe truly puts families first by offering caregiving support, adoption assistance, breastmilk transportation assistance, academic support, and surrogacy assistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Adoption and surrogacy assistance: <\/strong>$25,000 for up to two lifetime events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 34. Goldman Sachs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Goldman Sachs offers its employees stipends for surrogacy, adoption, fertility treatments, egg retrieval, and egg donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surrogacy stipend:<\/strong> Pathways to Parenthood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 35. Rover<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dog walking app Rover considers dogs members of the family, too. They offer $1,000 to help you adopt or foster a dog or cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adoption\/fostering stipend: <\/strong>$1,000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 36. Patagonia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Retail company Patagonia gives its employees childcare stipends, and for employees in its Ventura, CA headquarters, childcare is provided free of charge. It also offers up to $10,000 for qualified adoption expenses and 100% paid parental and family leave for up to 12 weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Childcare: <\/strong>Stipends + free service for on-site employees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 37. JPMorgan Chase<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n JPMorgan Chase offers extensive family-building benefits for eligible U.S. employees, including up to $50,000 in combined lifetime reimbursement for adoption and surrogacy, alongside fertility coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Family-building stipend: <\/strong>$50,000\/lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 38. REI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n REI offers employees a four-week paid sabbatical after 15 years of service, and every five years thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sabbatical: <\/strong>Four weeks after 15 YoS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 39. Qualtrics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A customer, employee, brand, and product experience software provider offers employees $1,800 annually for experiences like concerts, trips, sports, events, or charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Experience bonus: <\/strong>$1,800\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 40. Airbnb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The travel company lives up to its name by giving employees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Life experiences benefit:<\/strong> Offered quarterly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 41. BambooHR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The HR software company is generous with its travel stipend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travel stipend: <\/strong>$2,000\/year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 42. Grammarly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grammarly offers flexible financial support for dependent and pet care during in-person weeks when employees are traveling for work so they can get costs reimbursed or bring family along for the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benefits:<\/strong> Worry-free work travel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 43. FullContact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat are some examples of wellness stipends? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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