How to Lower Your Fare

Making The Case to Your Employer

It's up to your employer to decide whether to offer TransitChek. You will need to convince your company, business or agency that they will benefit as well. Here's how to make the case:

1. Your employer will save money.

Employers can pay up to 40% less in payroll taxes on the TransitChek benefits they provide. Your employer will not have to pay federal Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, or Worker’s Compensation taxes on the total amount of TransitChek benefits they give out. These savings would be offset by the modest costs of administering TransitChek, which include a 4% charge by the TransitCenter, a non-profit agency that currently runs the program. The TransitCenter works with employers to make the benefit easy to deliver to employees.

2. Many employers - large, medium and small - already provide TransitChek.

Your employer shouldn't be at a competitive disadvantage by not offering this popular and cost-free perk! Here are some of the companies that offer TransitChek:

Alitalia Airlines
American Stock Exchange
Bank of California, International
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chubb & Son
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Crowne Plaza Manhattan Hotel
I/B/E/S International Inc.
ING Capital
National Financial Services/Fidelity Investments
The New York Marriott Marquis
Nippon Credit Bank Ltd.
Oppenheimer Management Corporation
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Princess Hotels International
Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn

Here are some of the government agencies and non-profit groups that offer TransitChek:

The City of New York
Securities & Exchange Commission
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New York State Power Authority
New York State Urban Development Corporation
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
New York Public Interest Research Group
New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce
Children's Television Workshop
Rockefeller Foundation
Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation