Our benefits fall into three main categories:
As soon as you join PwC, you’ll have access to a suite of free and discounted goods and services, which are available all year round*.
In addition to these, you’ll also have access to a number of core benefits, funded by PwC, many of which you can enhance and add dependants to**
And you’ll have the option throughout your PwC career to choose optional benefits through salary exchange***
Our benefits offering is an important part of your total reward package. Our benefits package is focused around five core areas: health and wellbeing; financial; lifestyle; protection against the unexpected and recognising you.
*Benefits Plus benefits.
**Core benefits.
***Optional salary sacrifice benefits through salary exchange (subject to contract type).
- Eye test paid for by PwC*
- In office flu vaccine programme*
- Free guidance and support for menopause, fertility, pregnancy and new baby*
- Employee assistance programme for short term counseling and guidance*
- Access to AXA app - designed to support your physical and mental wellbeing*
- Private medical cover**
- 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP**
- Dental insurance***
- Health screening***
- Free, impartial advice from a mortgage broker*
- Discounted shopping portal*
- Season ticket loan*
- Funded back up care for childcare, adult care support and eldercare (up to 20 sessions)*
- Financial wellbeing hub*
- Pension with matched funding from us***
- Discounts on gym and fitness*
- Empowered flexibility*
- Enhanced parental leave policies*
- Additional support for working parents and carers*
- Travel and gadget insurance***
- Holiday trading***
- Car scheme***
- Cycle to work scheme***
- Life assurance**
- Income protection**
- Personal accident cover**
- Critical illness***
- Personal injury***
- Partner life assurance***
- Formal scheme to recognise individual and team contributions
- Employee Referral Programme
Our support for working parents
Working parents bring significant value to our firm. We want to ensure that they are supported at every stage and feel confident balancing their work and home lives. We therefore provide enhanced parental pay to eligible parents.
No matter your role, grade or location, the support we provide to working parents is available to all PwC employees from day one.
- Maternity and Adoption Leave, including in surrogacy arrangements
- Paternity Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Premature Births and Neonatal Care Leave
- Unpaid Parental Leave
- Miscarriage and Baby Loss
- Fertility leave
- Additional support
Maternity and Adoption Leave, including in surrogacy arrangements
- Up to 22 weeks of full pay (known as PwC “payroll cash*”), inclusive of any statutory pay.
- Followed by up to 17 weeks of statutory pay, subject to eligibility.
*Payroll cash is your base pay plus your benefits allowance, minus the benefits price for the benefits you’ve requested.
Paternity Leave
Up to four weeks of leave at full pay (called PwC “payroll cash*”).
*Payroll cash is your base pay plus your benefits allowance, minus the benefits price for the benefits you’ve requested.
Shared Parental Leave
- Up to 20 weeks of full pay (known as PwC “payroll cash*”), inclusive of any statutory shared parental pay.
- Entitlement to full pay is unaffected by the level of pay the employee’s partner may receive from their employer.
- Following the period of full pay, employees may be entitled to statutory shared parental pay for any remaining leave, depending on how the leave is shared with their partner or spouse.
- When combined with maternity, paternity or adoption leave, all eligible new parents can access up to 22 weeks of leave at full pay, depending on how they share their leave.
*Payroll cash is your base pay plus your benefits allowance, minus the benefits price for the benefits you’ve requested.
Premature Births and Neonatal Care Leave
- Up to 12 weeks at full pay (PwC “payroll cash*”) where babies arrive early or require neonatal care. This is in addition to other parental leave and pay, such as maternity and paternity.
- We waive the statutory requirement for 26 weeks’ service.
*Payroll cash is your base pay plus your benefits allowance, minus the benefits price for the benefits you’ve requested.
Unpaid Parental Leave
Up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave per child before their 18th birthday, using a maximum of four weeks in any year.
Miscarriage and Baby Loss
- We provide two weeks of leave at full pay (PwC “payroll cash*”) to anyone who experiences a miscarriage before the end of week 24 of their pregnancy (before any statutory entitlement to leave applies).
- Spouses and partners are also entitled to this leave.
- In the event of a baby loss after 24 weeks of pregnancy, we waive the statutory 26-week service requirement for parental bereavement leave and provide two weeks of leave at full pay.
*Payroll cash is your base pay plus your benefits allowance, minus the benefits price for the benefits you’ve requested.
Fertility leave
- Up to eight days of paid fertility leave to any employee undergoing fertility treatment.
- Up to two days of paid leave for employees supporting their partner or spouse through fertility treatment.
Additional support
We provide a wide range of additional support, including:
- A dedicated parents and carers hub, with information, resources, and parenting stories from our people.
- Internal networks for parents to connect, and share experiences and support.
- Free, specialist coaching to help employees prepare for parental leave, return to work and progress their career beyond.
- 20 funded back-up care sessions per year.
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