Fertility benefits are integral to supporting employees of all gender identities, sexual orientations, and family structures—and it’s time that employers start prioritizing these benefits as must-haves in order to give all employees more inclusive opportunities in their family planning.
During the pandemic, fertility preservation procedures like egg freezing have dramatically increased as more and more women are delaying their plans to get pregnant or reducing the number of children they plan to have. Other women realized that dating during the pandemic was. different, causing an increased demand for more family planning options.
Dr. Fahimeh Sasan, a founding physician at Kindbody, a national chain of egg freezing clinics, says, “For a lot of patients, dating has changed and they’re saying, ‘I thought I would have a lot of opportunities to date and I can’t date right now.’ Being single during the pandemic felt very different from being single pre-pandemic—you’re not going to parties and networking or even meeting people at work.”
Plus, infertility is common—12 percent of women in the US aged 15 to 44 have issues with fertility and the number of people diagnosed with infertility in the past 25 years has grown by 20 percent. With fertility treatments being extremely costly (the average price of fertility treatments can range anywhere from $5,000 to 75,000), fertility benefits like parental leave and assistance with adoption, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and surrogacy are a great way for employers to help guide their workers through the financially, emotionally, and physically taxing process of starting a family.
Many companies have begun to recognize the importance and impact of these benefits, with 71 percent of companies looking into offering fertility benefits to support DEI objectives and 58 percent of benefit managers saying it would be discriminatory not to offer fertility benefits by 2025. Here are just a few of the companies who’ve begun prioritizing fertility benefits and assisting employees’ in their journey to parenthood.
What they offer: Assistance for adoption; surrogacy; egg, embryo, and sperm freezing and storage; artificial insemination; breast milk transportation; and some coverage of fertilization, culture, and semen analysis for gestational carriers.
What they offer: A $50,000 lifetime maximum for IVF treatment and pre-implantation screening coverage.
What they offer: A 1+1 Smart Cycle model for infertility and fertility treatments, cryopreservation for eggs, sperm and embryos, and storage for up to one year. Smart Cycles are comprehensive coverage and include modernized services such as testing, diagnostics, and lab work. No pre-certifications or barriers to treatment are required.
What they offer: Benefits of up to $35,000 for adoption and surrogacy.
What they offer: $20,000 worth of fertility treatments.
What they offer: Unlimited coverage for IVF and egg freezing.
What they offer: Unlimited IVF coverage after an infertility diagnosis.
What they offer: Coverage of four IVF cycles.
What they offer: Unlimited fertility coverage.
What they offer: Discounts for IVF, artificial insemination, and egg freezing.
What they offer: Up to $20,000 for adoption or surrogacy assistance and up to $50,000 for harvesting and storing eggs, sperm, or embryos without an infertility diagnosis.
What they offer: Unlimited access to IVF. Fun fact? Chanel is one of the only companies in the fashion industry to offer infertility coverage.
What they offer: Six weeks of 100 percent paid leave following an adoption, three rounds of IVF per lifetime, and fertility preservation coverage.
What they offer: Adoption, infertility assistance, and paid parental leave.
What they offer: Fertility testing, IUI, IVF, sperm banking, egg freezing, embryo banking, annual storage, and genetic testing, as well as a free annual membership to Kindbody, which is is a network of gynecology and fertility clinics focused on improving the health care experience for people with fertility, contraception, or pregnancy care needs. Other benefits include assistance with adoption, nutrition coaching, mental health counseling, back-to-work coaching, and access to a dedicated care navigator.
What they offer: $10,000 annually and $20,000 lifetime coverage for adoption assistance and fertility assistance.
What they offer: Adoption assistance, two weeks off for non-primary caregivers, and two full cycles of IVF.
What they offer: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents, fertility reimbursement and aid up to $10,000 annually, adoption assistance up to $10,000 annually, and new parent support with unlimited access to over 20 specialties of women’s and family health providers.
What they offer: Access to Carrot Fertility benefits, meaning a reimbursement of up to $20,000 for egg freezing, infertility services, and adoption and surrogacy fees per family per lifetime.
What they offer: Up to $25,000 per couple for fertility, surrogacy, adoption, and egg freezing assistance.
What they offer: $100,000 for four cycles of IVF (pending proof of eligibility for fertility treatment) and preimplantation genetic screening, and $20,000 for surrogacy benefits.
What they offer: A $20,000 lifetime benefit for infertility expenses.
What they offer: Adoption assistance, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends, and egg freezing assistance.
What they offer: Three cycles of IVF, fertility consultations, and egg freezing assistance.
What they offer: Up to $20,000 lifetime maximum that includes egg freezing and embryo freezing.
What they offer: Egg freezing coverage.
What they offer: Up to $10,000 for adoption assistance, fertility assistance, and family planning.
What they offer: Up to $40,000 for fertility treatments, $20,000 for prescription coverage, and $15,000 for adoption assistance with no lifetime maximum.
What they offer: A $30,000 lifetime maximum for fertility treatments with no clinic restrictions and $20,000 adoption and surrogacy reimbursements.
What they offer: Unlimited benefits for fertility treatments after a consultation with an infertility support provider.
What they offer: Coverage for IVF, frozen embryo transfers, artificial insemination, and fertility medications.
What they offer: Eight weeks of fully paid leave to non-birth mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents; fertility, pregnancy, and parenting advice; full treatment and medication coverage for artificial insemination, IVF, and egg freezing; and unlimited guidance and support from a patient care advocate.
What they offer: A flexible allowance of $10,000 per employee, per lifetime that can be used toward fertility treatments, egg freezing, adoption fees, or surrogacy fees.
What they offer: Three Smart Cycles per lifetime and a $30,000 lifetime maximum for infertility prescription drug services.
What they offer: A Families @ Nitro program that includes extended parental leave, customized phased return to work plans, family planning leave, leave after loss, family planning assistance, and a baby bonding benefit of $500.
What they offer: Personalized ovulation and cycle predictions, a daily fertility score, expert research to help employees conceive, comprehensive coverage of alternative paths toward conception, access to high quality care through a premier network of fertility specialists, and personalized support from a dedicated Patient Care Advocate. Plus, up to $10,000 to help defray costs related to adoption or surrogacy expenses.
What they offer: Adoption assistance of up to $5,000 per child, egg freezing, and a one-time $20,000 reimbursement. Additionally, Palo Alto Networks offers five paid bereavement leave days to all U.S. employees who've experienced reproductive loss.
What they offer: Benefits through Carrot Fertility benefit, which connects employees with IVF, donor and gestational carriers, egg and sperm freezing, and adoption agencies. Plus, $2,500 toward fertility treatment, prescriptions, gestational carriers, adoption, and more.
What they offer: Up to four rounds of IVF treatments, up to $20,000 for surrogacy assistance, and up to $5,000 for employees who adopt.
What they offer: Coverage for fertility benefits through the Publicis medical plans, which includes various fertility treatments such as intrauterine insemination and in vitro insemination.
What they offer: Adoption assistance and a $25,000 family planning benefit that covers IVF, egg freezing, and more.
What they offer: Specifically for pregnancy loss, up to four weeks’ additional paid leave, which does not count toward sick leave or vacation; flexible working arrangements and support from their People Team to enable attendance to all medical appointments and support a return to work after pregnancy loss; mental health coaching support through their Employee Assistance Program.
What they offer: Up to $25,000 per lifetime for fertility assistance.
What they offer: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of male and female infertility, including infertility drugs, laboratory testing, approved surgeries and therapeutic procedures, artificial insemination, IVF, and sperm washing or preparation, available to all couples and single women without an infertility diagnosis. Plus, 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents, including birth, adoption, and fostering, and SADA will reimburse the cost of two round-trip airline tickets for family members to visit and assist with child care.
What they offer: Assistance with egg, embryo, and sperm freezing, IVF, and artificial insemination; a $10,000 adoption reimbursement per child; and a $10,000 surrogacy reimbursement.
What they offer: Adoption support, fertility benefits, and family leave.
What they offer: A $60,000-lifetime maximum benefit that can be used toward costs related to fertility treatments, fertility preservation, donor assistance, and adoption.
What they offer: Up to $10,000 per adoption, surrogacy, or artificial insemination; and a $20,000 IVF benefit to all employees.
What they offer: A reimbursement of up to $5,000 for infertility treatments and adoption reimbursement of 100 percent of all eligible expenses, up to a maximum of $5,000 per child.
What they offer: Egg freezing assistance and a reimbursement of 80 percent of incurred costs, up to an annual max of $10,000 and a lifetime max of $20,000.
What they offer: Unlimited IVF coverage.
What they offer: Reimbursement for IVF, egg freezing, and surrogacy expenses.
What they offer: Reimbursement for IVF, egg freezing, and surrogacy expenses.
What they offer: Adoption assistance, embryo genetic testing and IVF assistance, and embryo storage up to one year.
What they offer: A $75,000 lifetime maximum benefit that can be used toward costs related to fertility treatments, fertility preservation, adoption, and surrogacy services.
What they offer: Parents of a newborn or adopted child receive 20 weeks paid leave (16 weeks if they're a secondary caregiver) plus $5,000 "baby cash" and flexible return-to-work options. The flexible return-to-work options include starting back on a Wednesday and condensed three-day weeks for about 2 months.
What they offer: $10,000 per household for adoption assistance and eight weeks paid parental leave for non-delivering parents.
