
Benefits and Perks
US Employees
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Insurance Offerings
Several plan offerings (including a free + 95% employer covered option) pending your needs! Our insurance offerings include medical, dental + vision and are eligible for dependents, too! For dependents, we also cover up to 95% of the cost, depending on the plan chosen.
New hire waiting period: 1st of the month, on or after hire
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Custom Equipment Setup
To ensure you’re setup for success we’ll provide you a one time remote office setup budget of $600, as well as a custom equipment setup that includes: laptop, monitor, headphones, keyboard, mouse, adapters, hubs, cables, monitor arms, laptop stand, webcam, support headset, etc.
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Commuter Benefits
You can enroll in our commuter benefit in which you’ll be provided a card through Wex, our pre-tax spending vendor.
Mercury will provide up to the first $200 a month.
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Unlimited PTO
We mean it when we say we have an unlimited PTO policy. We also have a mandatory minimum to ensure our team really takes the time to recharge!
Minimum: 10 days
Recommended: 20 days
Separately, we have another 11 holidays we recognize that our entire team is offline!
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Retirement Savings
401(K) matching - 100% contributions on the first 4% of pay starting your first day.
We use Fidelity as our retirement platform!
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Paid Parental Leave
For our Parental Leave Policy, we provide: 16 weeks fully paid for birthing caregivers OR 12 weeks fully paid for non-birthing caregivers.
Employees can decide if they want to take the weeks consecutively or if they’d prefer to break their leave up over a 12 month period.
We partner with Cocoon to make the leave process as seamless as possible!
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Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
Carrot is a family forming benefits vendor that provides support for all family forming journeys. This includes egg retrieval/freezing, adoption/surrogacy, birth/post birth support, menopause, and gender affirming care.
Carrot is available to all full time employees and their dependents. Mercury provides $10,000 USD (lifetime contribution, not annual) to help pay for eligible care and services for you and your dependents.
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Food Budget
Each week, Mercury employees can use their Mercury card up to $100 a week on groceries or meals (takeout/delivery, coffee, etc.)
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Learning and Development Budget
$1,000/year to spend on learning, training, and career development.
Examples our team has completed include: an “Intro to SQL” course, “The Growth Series” through Reforge, a two-day virtual conference, and a workshop on the Venture Financing space.
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Wellness Budget
A company perk for healthy minds, bodies, spirits, and souls. Mercury employees are provided $100 a month to put towards holistic employee wellness.
Check out some examples of how current employees have used the benefit HERE.
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Cell Phone Reimbursement
We provide each employee a cell phone reimbursement of $50 a month (automatically included as $25 per paycheck) to help cover the cost of your mobile device.
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Additional Perks

Canadian (non-Quebec) Employees
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Insurance Offerings
Group Insurance (Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Prescriptions, and Major Medical & dental) 95% covered by Mercury for both employees and dependents.
Health Savings Account (Mercury contributes $1,200/year)
New hire waiting period: one month
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Custom Equipment Setup
To ensure you’re setup for success we’ll provide you a one time remote office setup budget of $600 USD, as well as a custom equipment setup that includes: laptop, monitor, headphones, keyboard, mouse, adapters, hubs, cables, monitor arms, laptop stand, webcam, support headset, etc.
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Unlimited PTO Policy
We mean it when we say we have an unlimited PTO policy. We also have a mandatory minimum to ensure our team really takes the time to recharge!
Minimum: 10 days
Recommended: 20 days
Separately, we have another 11 holidays we recognize that our entire team is offline!
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Retirement Savings
RRSP matching (100% of contributions on the first 4% of pay)
We use Wealthsimple for our RRSP matching program!
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Paid Parental Leave
For our Parental Leave Policy, we provide: 16 weeks fully paid for birthing caregivers OR 12 weeks fully paid for non-birthing caregivers.
Employees can decide if they want to take the weeks consecutively or if they’d prefer to break their leave up over a 12 month period.
We partner with Cocoon to make the leave process as seamless as possible!
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Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
Carrot is a family forming benefits vendor that provides support for all family forming journeys. This includes egg retrieval/freezing, adoption/surrogacy, birth/post birth support, menopause, and gender affirming care.
Carrot is available to all full time employees and their dependents. Mercury provides $10,000 USD (lifetime contribution, not annual) to help pay for eligible care and services for you and your dependents.
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Food Budget
Each week, Mercury employees can use their Mercury card up to $100 (USD) a week on groceries or meals (takeout/delivery, coffee, etc.)
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Wellness Budget
A company perk for healthy minds, bodies, spirits, and souls. Mercury employees are provided $100 (USD) a month to put towards holistic employee wellness.
Check out some examples of how current employees have used the benefit HERE.
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Learning and Development Budget
$1,000 USD/year to spend on learning, training, and career development.
Examples our team has completed include: an “Intro to SQL” course, “The Growth Series” through Reforge, a two-day virtual conference, and a workshop on the Venture Financing space.
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Cell Phone Reimbursement
We provide each employee a cell phone reimbursement of $50 CAD a month (automatically included as $25 CAD per paycheck) to help cover the cost of your mobile device.
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Additional Perks
Personalized callsign
(Subjectively) cool merch