The Southern Nevada business community is faced with many challenges including employee recruitment and retention, competitive and cost effective benefit packages and traffic congestion. Club Ride Commuter Services is helping local employers, leaders and residents address these issues while taking advantage of great transportation benefits. Club Ride is currently working with more than 200 work sites in the Las Vegas Valley and can work for you. For more information on how your business can join Club Ride, call (702) 228-RIDE (7433) or contact us online.
How does Club Ride work?
Club Ride staff will work directly with the employer's benefits team and help provide everything necessary to get your employees' program started. Club Ride offers three easy ways for current participating worksites fo enroll their employees:
Watch one of our segments below to see how participating Club Ride businesses and their employees are taking advantage of Club Ride. These are some of the benefits employers will see by participating in Club Ride.
Increased employee moral
Employees get to work on time
Enhanced corporate image
Favorable tax advantages (see below)
Can be used toward qualification for Leadership in Environmental and Energy
Design (LEED) certification
Reduced absenteeism
Expanded employee benefits program
Employees benefit from the following incentives.
Significant savings in commuting costs
Monthly prize drawings
Guaranteed Rides Home
Preferential carpool and vanpool parking at participating work sites
What tax advantages do employers see?
If your employees use employer-sponsored pass programs, transit, or vanpools to commute, your company will be eligible to take advantage of some great new tax benefits. Qualified Transportation Fringe Benefits 132(f) IRC permits employers to subsidize or to allow their employees to pre-tax up to $115 per month for transit or vanpool fares. Employers can save on payroll taxes and employees can save on income taxes.
EZ Rider Program
The RTC also has a transit pass program that provides unlimited transit rides on a monthly or yearly basis. These passes can be purchased in bulk at a discounted rate of five- to 15-percent. Your company must be Club Ride members to get the discounted rate and added tax savings.