Toast
Boston, MA · founded 2012
Toast builds the restaurant point-of-sale and payments platform, and it hires like it: roughly two-thirds of Toasters have prior restaurant-industry experience, which gives the place a hospitality streak and a wall of 'best place to work' awards. Benefits are genuinely broad for a public company its size, with flexible PTO, a five-year paid sabbatical, fertility and family-forming support, and an ESPP. The catch is culture: Blind and other reviewers repeatedly describe a politics-driven environment where visibility and networking beat merit, and rate management noticeably lower than work-life balance.
see the full file on Toastdocumented benefits (22)
| Fertility support | yes |
|---|---|
| Backup care | yes |
| Caregiver leave | offered |
| Countries with offices | United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, India |
| Retirement match | offered |
| Financial advising | yes |
| Stock purchase plan | yes |
| Mental health | yes |
| Dental | yes |
| Vision | yes |
| Disability | yes |
| Life insurance | yes |
| Unlimited PTO | yes |
| Sabbatical | yes |
| Sabbatical after | 5 |
| Offices | Boston |
| Wellness stipend | offered |
| Pet insurance | yes |
| Charitable donation match | yes |
| Learning budget | offered |
| Home-office stipend | offered |
| Median filed wage | $164,450 |
what Toast pays
Median of 5 certified wages filed with the US Department of Labor: $164,450.
Half of Toast's certified filings fall between $150,000 and $258,543.
| role | median | filings | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| software engineer ii | $150,000 | 2 filings | $142,642 to $150,000 |
Source: US Department of Labor, FY2025 Q4. Read 2026-07-27.
notable perks
- Employees can take a paid sabbatical after five years.
- Toast subsidizes backup care for children and adults.
- Employees receive a work enablement stipend for workspace-related expenses.
- Toast offers preferred pricing on pet insurance.
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Toast. It applies to every employer in Boston, MA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | THERE IS NO FEDERAL MANDATE. No US law requires an employer health plan to cover IVF or any infertility treatment, so coverage comes either from the insurance mandate in the state where the plan is written or from the employer's own choice. And the state mandates reach less far than they look: they bind fully insured plans bought from a state-regulated carrier, while a self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted from state insurance regulation. KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers in a self-funded plan, and 80% of those at firms of 200 or more — so at the size of employer this site mostly covers, the state mandate usually does not apply, and any fertility benefit is a genuine company choice rather than a restatement of law. That is precisely why it belongs on a benefits page here. Perks has not yet read this employer's own state insurance mandate from an official source; the states that have been read carry their own entry. (No federal statute requires an employer health plan to cover infertility treatment or IVF. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts state insurance regulation as applied to self-funded employer plans, which is why a state mandate does not reach them.) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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