Generous benefits include health benefits (medical, prescription, dental, flexible spending accounts), Retirement (State or Optional Retirement Plan with Fidelity or TIAA), Supplemental Retirement Accounts (TIAA, Fidelity, or MSRP-Nationwide) with $600 annual state match, Life Insurance (state sponsored MetLife, USM sponsored MetLife Plan, life insurance and long-term disability insurance), Tuition Remission, Employee Assistance Program, paid holidays, paid leave (Exempt positions start at 22 days annual, sick leave 15 days per year, personal leave 3 days per year). This involves the effective management of animal procurement and transportation; preventative medicine including quarantine, animal biosecurity, and surveillance); clinical disease, disability, or related health issues; protocol-associated disease, disability, and other sequelae; surgery and preoperative care; pain and distress; anesthesia and analgesia; and humane euthanasia.