Build your best working life
Bayer is committed to providing state-of-the-art benefits to its employees. Benefits contribute to individual and family health, increase financial security and help create a comfortable work-life balance that improves quality of life.
We ensure a high-level of social protection in our workplaces. Nearly all Bayer Group employees have health insurance, as well as access to a company pension plan. We are constantly working to increase the benefits we provide and our goal for the future is to have the highest level of social protection available for all employees.
An important principle of our benefits and rewards approach is to link employees’ compensation to their performance, incentivizing personal growth and achievement. Regular benchmarking against global standards sets base salaries in line with the requirements of each position. Salaries are then supplemented by performance-related compensation and extensive additional benefits.
Total Rewards
Total Rewards is a key element of our employee experience and is based on our business priorities, mission, vision, and values.
Total Rewards represents everything that we offer to you, our best talent. In exchange for your contribution, we offer competitive pay and incentives, best-in-class flexible benefits and wellness programs and more.
We are competitive with global and local markets through annual benchmarking of our total rewards programs to enhance our employee experience.
Bayer also supports flexible workplaces, which helps support work-life balance, accommodate employee needs, productivity, flexibility, work-time flexibility, and workplace flexibility.
Build a healthy and satisfying life, inside and outside of work
At Bayer, our mission is Health for All, Hunger for None – to improve people’s lives with solutions to the greatest challenges of our time. And that includes supporting the physical and mental wellbeing of the dedicated people who work with us to build these solutions.
Physical wellness
Bayer prioritizes our employees’ physical wellbeing by offering a wide variety of services and insightful information on how to stay active and healthy. Employee’s will have access to platforms for mediation, employee discounts to local fitness centers, on-site fitness facilities in designated Bayer locations. Bayer supports ergonomic tools to suit the physical and cognitive capabilities of employees, enhancing their wellbeing and productivity. In addition, employees have access to information regarding the importance of healthy eating, sleeping well and preventative methods to work-related challenges.
Mental wellness
Bayer recognizes the importance of supporting employee’s mental health as it not only promotes a healthier work culture but encourages employees to openly communicate with the organization. Employees will have access to numerous resources such as paid time off (vacation), employee family assistance program, professional development, a dedicated focus to Mental Health Week, and more.
Financial wellness
Bayer acknowledges the hard work and dedication employees contribute to the organization. Bayer provides a competitive compensation package that may include incentives, pension and retirement savings plans/programs, rewards and recognition, education reimbursement, and much more.
Social wellness
Bayer emphasizes the importance of having a work-life balance, which is why we encourage, promote and support social engagement. Through a variety of events from Bayer’s Business Resource Groups (BRGs) like the Pride Month flag raising event by BLEND, recognizing National Indigenous Peoples Day by RIVER, partnering with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), hosting dedicated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) days and numerous information sessions. Bayer encourages on-site workplace gatherings such as the Bayer Book Club, local community initiatives such as partnering with Food Banks Canada, volunteering at Wellspring Alberta’s Carma House and Health Partners International of Canada. Bayer also supports our employees who make a personal commitment to improving the quality of life in their communities through Volunteer Day Programs
Benefits & Rewards
Bayer’s compensation packages are designed to meet the diverse needs of our global workforce and include elements like base salary, bonuses, long and short-term incentives, and benefits.
We regularly check in with external benchmarks and internal measures to ensure people at our company are fairly compensated.
Because creating a family-friendly workplace is important to us, our employees can take advantage of benefits that allow them to lead productive working lives that are harmonious with the priorities of their families. Bayer offers a variety of options that allow employees to choose the most appropriate work schedule to support both their personal and professional needs.
Bayer aims to ensure that all employees have access to affordable, effective health care services. With a focus on wellbeing we offer work-life programs such as access to on-site fitness, wellness challenges, a hybrid work environment and superior health benefits.
With more people living longer and pressure on government pension systems increasing, company retirement benefits such as ours offer good opportunities for individual optimization. Employees may customize their retirement benefits to allow them to accumulate more money for the future, purchase stock, and even convert a portion of their salary to entitle them to early retirement.