Benefits suck, your paycheck is your only source of income. No bonus programs, no profit sharing, no stock options, no pensions etc. Most employees are salary and working a lot more than 40 hours without compensation and rely on a gentlemen’s agreement for comp time after traveling. If your role requires travel you are trading your entire life for a career that at most will pay you in the ballpark of 150k a year if your hourly and willing. If you are not aware you can make that money and be at home every night with the same skill set - it’s not that difficult to find (and you can achieve this in the southern market where cost of living is dramatically lower). A family medical plan will cost over 500 a month I previously worked at Amazon and paid $27 a week for better coverage. There is a reason most of the controls engineers are in their 20’s, they don’t have families or the experience to warrant better pay. HR is a joke tell Wendy and Addison I said hi!