Nielsenprovides competitive, comprehensive and meaningful benefits that reward andsustain your professional and home life. As an employee, you have manyresponsibilities, but, as an individual, you have even more. Whether your goalis to buy a home, pay for college or save for retirement, our benefit programsprovide the foundation for financial well-being to help you balance all yourroles. We regularly monitor our plans and benchmark our offerings against otherwell-respected companies to ensure that we remain competitive.

Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental and Vision Coverage

Coverage isavailable for full-time employees and their qualified dependents, includingdomestic partners and their children, from the first day of employment.Salary-based employee premiums are made through payroll deductions with pre-taxdollars.

Life and Group Accident Insurance

Weautomatically provide life and group accident insurance to full-time employees.Employees can also enroll themselves and eligible dependents in supplementallife insurance and group accident insurance.

Short-term Disability Benefits

We also provideshort-term disability benefits. Full-time employees may enroll for long-termdisability coverage to continue a portion of their income if they becomemedically disabled for longer periods of time.

Time Off

Nielsenprovides employees with paid time away from work. The amount of time offavailable each year varies with length of service.

Retirement Program

We provide a401(k) Plan with a company match. Employees are eligible to enroll on theirfirst day of work and Nielsen matches $.50 per dollar contributed up to a totalNielsen match of 3 percent.

Work-Life Balance

Nielsen offersa number of programs that can help employees manage their professional andpersonal lives, including an Adoption Assistance program, College Savings Plan,Dependent Care Spending Account, Educational Assistance, Employee AssistancePlan, Financial Education, Legal Plan, and discounted voluntary insuranceproducts (auto/home, pet insurance, long-term care insurance, and others.)

Wellness Programs

Nielsen helpsassociates and their families lead healthy and productive lives both at workand at home. We offer programs such as Healthy Measures, Get Healthy Rewards (afitness and weight-loss reimbursement program), health coaching, advocacy, andmedical second opinion services, and a variety of onsite wellness-relatedprogramming at no cost to our associates.