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Why work at King County
At King County, we offer rewarding career paths in a racially just, diverse, and culturally responsive environment. We support your health, well-being, and safety, offer competitive and equitable wages, benefits, and leave packages, and provide equitable opportunities for advancement and the tools you need to succeed. We are proud of our talented, innovative, diverse, and inclusive workforce. Come make a difference in your community and thrive where you work. Join us today!
Meet some of our employees
At King County, we continue to build on an enduring legacy of shared values of:
Enjoy a balanced life
King County provides benefits to help employees develop a healthy work-life balance, so that they don't have to choose between a personal life and professional success. Delivering excellence to the people of King County can only be achieved when employees are empowered to live their best, full life outside work, too.
King County is a values-based organization with an empowering work environment, a supportive work-life balance, and development opportunities so you never stop learning. We work hard to make sure our benefits reflect our values to support you and your family in a variety of ways. We value creative thinking that drives us to continuously improve public service. Tap into your desire to serve the public and discover new and better ways to make a meaningful impact.
Check out a few of our employee-focused programs
Balanced You
Balanced You will equip you to live healthy and safe, know and use your benefits, and find balance in life and work.
Benefits, wages, and retirement programs
Our robust benefits and wages support you and your family. These include health care, retirement, and deferred compensation programs.
Career development
King County's Learning and Development team is committed to providing the tools and knowledge employees need to thrive in their roles while championing equity, racial justice, and social justice in everything we do. Whether you're seeking to hone your skills, advance your career, or build your leadership abilities, we offer a supportive environment with options from online courses and instructor-led workshops to forums and peer-learning opportunities.
We work to support the County’s goal of becoming a welcoming community (and workplace) where every person can thrive by rooting our work in our True North and Values and the County’s commitment to creating a pro-equity and antiracist workplace.
Our team members have a portfolio of options to develop a meaningful career and life with King County. Whether it's boosting your understanding of equity, racial and social justice with our dynamic workshops, creating action plans, or sharpening your leadership skills through our Leading The Way program, our team is here to cheer you on and lift you up at every step of your learning journey.
Learn more about our portfolio of workshops:
- Leading the Way provides a foundation of great leadership by helping employees develop fundamentals skills and ways of thinking that foster great leadership, grounded in equity.
- Cultivating Equity: An ERSJ Fundamentals Series provides a welcoming environment for employees to learn about equity, racial, and social justice at King County and supports the County’s efforts to build a racially diverse workforce and workplace at all levels with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to advance a pro-equity racially just workplace and community.
Commute options
King County offers a variety of employee transportation options. If you’re a King County employee eligible for commute benefits, your employee ID/ORCA card covers your King County Metro Vanpool or Vanshare 100%, and pays your fare on the following regular services: Water taxi, Metro Transit, Sound Transit Express, Community Transit, Pierce Transit, Kitsap Transit, Everett Transit, link light rail, Sounder Train, and Seattle Streetcar.
Employee Assistance Program and Making Life Easier
The Employee Assistance and Making Life Easier programs help employees and their families to be healthy and safe.
Employee experience
Guided by our True North, the Employee Experience team works to understand the Voice of the Employee in order to create innovative and sustainable practices to increase employee engagement for all King County Employees. We implement Employee Engagement surveys and an action planning process, as well as consult with departments and agencies to support their unique employee experience needs to move forward as one King County.
Employee Giving Program
King County’s Employee Giving Program makes it easy for employees to do the good they already want to do! From volunteering, donating after a natural disaster, or sharing about a cause that’s important to them, King County employees can help make a different in the world. Learn more here.
Exercise and activities from Balanced You
Balanced You offers resources and information to help employees to stay active and healthy. This includes information about King County Activity Centers, easy desk exercises and free yoga and exercise classes (live and virtual).
Home ownership programs
Through HomeStreet Bank, employees receive exclusive home loan and banking benefits.
Taking leave including paid parental leave
Several types of leave are available to eligible King County employees.
Workforce innovation
We prioritize initiatives to make us the best-run government.
Workforce equity
Ensuring King County is a place of opportunity where all people thrive. Workforce Equity is an important part of Human Resources that ensures an inclusive and diverse workforce throughout King County. This includes implementing workplace practices which align with the King County Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) Strategic Plan, and delivering services that allow each employee to thrive. Learn more about King County's Equity, Racial and Social Justice initiatives.