Everything you need to know about your employees' favorite perk.
There is a myriad of companies setting precedents with their employee stipends as they're an attractive perk that employees appreciate.
In this ultimate list, you’ll find 63 employee stipend examples for everything from health & wellness and continued education to family-oriented perks and custom stipends.
1. Deloitte
Deloitte, one of the “big four” accounting organizations, offers its employees an annual well-being subsidy.
2. Quantopian
Quantopian is a data science platform that offers their employees one stipend, but they have the option to use it on either their cell phone or health & wellness.
Health & wellness or cell phone: $600/quarter
3. LinkedIn
The professional social network LinkedIn may exist to help people improve their careers, but they’re all about helping their employees live a holistic life, both in and out of the office.
Wellness stipend: $1,800/year
4. Basecamp
Basecamp, a remote-first technology business, has done a great job of offering its employees a variety of perks
Wellness allowance: $100/month
5. Microsoft
Microsoft, the technology company, offers their employees a reimbursement stipend when they enroll in healthcare benefits.
Stay-Fit reimbursement: $800/year
6. Eventbrite
Eventbrite offers its employees a monthly stipend to spend how they’d like, whether it’s on a juice cleanse or gym membership.
7. LoseIt!
LoseIt! The app that helps users track diet and count calories, offers its employees a monthly stipend to use on gym memberships.
8. Facebook
Facebook, the well-known social media app, offers its employees an annual stipend to use on a health club membership.
Health club stipend: $720/year
9. Webflow
Webflow is a web-based platform for building, launching, and growing responsive websites visually. Their mission is to empower everyone to build websites and apps without code.
(Read more about Webflow's health & wellness stipend via our case study.)
10. Clif Bar
The health company offers its employees a stipend if they commute by bike.
11. Rewind
Rewind, a data protection software company, offers an annual wellness stipend for their employees.
Health & fitness stipend: $300/year
12. New Belgium Brewing
New Belgium Brewing offers its employees an annual stipend to spend on gyms, bikes, or the like.
13. Slack
Slack gives its employees stipends for both personal and professional development.
14. Buffer
Here's the breakdown on what people spend their continued learning stipend on:
After analyzing their employee's usage of the stipend, they noticed that their people were using many different platforms to learn.
15 unique platforms to be exact.
How could HR or People Operations professional create a program that supports this diversity of need?
This is the power of an employee stipend.
15. Wyzant
Wyzant supports its employees with a generous stipend.
16. Help Scout
Help Scout supports their employees with an annual stipend.
Learn something stipend: $1,800/year
17. Olark
Olark gives its employees a stipend to use on their development however they choose.
Personal development budget: $2,000/year
18. Balsamiq
Balsamiq gives their employees a generous learning stipend to use as they choose.
19. Smartsheet
Smartsheet gives its employees a stipend to use on learning-related items.
20. Relativity
Relativity, a software company in Chicago, offers an annual stipend for continued learning.
Continuing education stipend: $3,000 annually
21. Black Spectacles
Black Spectacles, an ecommerce & edtech company offers its employees a stipend for continued learning.
Continued education stipend: Unknown
22. Galvanize
Galvanize, a software development bootcamp, offers its employees an annual stipend to put towards learning.
Education course stipend: $1,000/year
23. The Engine is Red
Creative agency, The Engine is Red, gives their employees an annual educational stipend.
Educational stipend: $400/year
24. Indico
Indico offers its employees a stipend from its learning and development fund.
25. Webflow
Webflow is a web-based platform for building, launching, and growing responsive websites visually. Its mission is to empower everyone to build websites and apps without code.
Continued learning: $1,000/year
26. LinkedIn
The professional social network LinkedIn may exist to help people improve their careers, but they’re all about helping their employees live a holistic life, both in and out of the office.
Education stipend: $5,000/year
Perk stipends have quickly become an employee and HR favorite in organizations. Download the eBook to learn why.
27. MasterClass
Online course hub MasterClass offers its employees a snack stipend.
28. Snapchat
Popular social messaging app, Snapchat, offers its employees a daily stipend for food.
29. LoseIt!
Calorie counter and meal tracker LoseIt! gives their employees a daily meal stipend.
Daily meal or lunch stipend: $100/day
30. MillerCoors Brewing Co
Brewing company, Miller Coors Brewing Co, offers its employees a stipend for what it does best--beer!
31. Circle
Circle, global internet finance company, gives their employees a stipend for lunch.
32. PerfectKeto
PerfectKeto gives its employees a stipend for monthly food.
Healthy food stipend: $150/month
33. Adobe
Adobe offers its employees a family stipend.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance: $25,000
34. REI
REI is an outdoor clothing, gear, and footwear organization that offers its employees an adoption stipend.
Adoption cost reimbursement: $3,000/one-time payment
35. Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs offers its employees stipends for both surrogacy and adoption.
36. Spotify
Spotify gives its employees money for egg freezing.
37. Rover
Dog walking app Rover considers dogs members of the family, too. They offer a stipend to help with adoption or fostering costs.
Adoption/fostering stipend: $1,000
38. Patagonia
Retail company Patagonia gives its employees childcare stipends.
39. Qualtrics
A customer, employee, brand, and product experience software provider.
Experience stipend (named "Try something new"): $1,500/year
40. Airbnb
Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects people who want to rent out their homes with people who are looking for accommodations in that locale.
41. Evernote
Note taking app, Evernote gives their employees an annual stipend to travel.
Vacation travel stipend: $1,000/year
42. BambooHR
The HR software company is generous with their travel stipend.
43. FullContact
The business relationship software gives their employees a stipend that’s more generous than most combined.
44. Moz
SEO company Moz allows employees to reimburse a good amount of vacation money.
Vacation reimbursement: Up to $3,000/year
45. TravelZoo
TravelZoo, a company that helps folks find travel deals, allows its employees to take advantage of the product via a stipend.
Vacation stipend (when booked through company): $1,500/year
46. TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor reimburses its employees for a certain amount for trips booked through their sites.
47. Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corp offers a biking stipend for employees to use on their commute.
Bike commute stipend: $240/year
48. Tableau
Tableau offers its employees a commuter stipend.
49. Buffer
Buffer is a software company that helps companies build their audience and grow their brand on social media.
Remote work stipend: $200/month
50. Webflow
Webflow is a web-based platform for building, launching, and growing responsive websites visually. Their mission is to empower everyone to build websites and apps without code.
Remote work stipend: $250/month
51. Twitter
Social media company Twitter gives its employees a stipend to use on items when working from home.
Work from home stipend: $1,000
52. Basecamp
Basecamp, a remote-first technology company, has done a great job of offering its employees a variety of perks
53. MeetEdgar
Social media company MeetEdgar gives its employees a coworking space stipend
54. Circle
Circle offers its employees a monthly stipend to use on their cell phones.
Cell phone stipend: $150/month
55. Superhuman
Email company Superhuman gives its employees a stipend to have a standing desk at home.
56. MeetEdgar
Social media company MeetEdgar gives its employees an internet stipend.
57. Pine Tree ISD
Pine Tree ISD offers its employees a one time stipend to use on personal internet and phone usage.
Phone and personal and internet stipend: $250 (one-time)
58. Webflow
Tech company Webflow offers its employees a stipend for their home office.
Home office stipend: $250/month + 50% more due to the pandemic
59. Basecamp
Basecamp, a remote-first technology company, has done a great job of offering its employees a variety of perks
Home office furnishing setup: $2,000 your first year of employment
60. Clif bar
The health company offers its employees a stipend if they commute by bike.
Donation-matching stipend: up to $2,000 (or people can donate 1,000 bars per year to the nonprofit(s) closest to their heart).
A custom perk stipend is a sum of money given to employees dedicated to spend on perks in multiple categories.
Check out the example below where there is a Learning, Health, and Food category selected for Sam to spend in.
61. HubSpot
A marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM platform — plus the methodology, resources, and support — to help businesses grow better.
62. Motley Fool
This financial company allows its employees to choose what they’d like to spend their stipend on.
63. Hinge
Hinge, a popular dating app software.
64. Compt
Compt, an employee stipend management platform.
Custom stipend to spend in 14 various categories: $75/quarter
We've got more than enough.
Speak with a Compt team member to see if stipends can help you achieve greater success.
