This study describes the present status of benefit planning in the junior colleges, discusses the principles governing benefit plans, and raises questions regarding the development of sound benefit plans in light of the needs of individual faculty and staff as well as of the goals of the institution. The base of the study was a questionnaire filled out by junior college presidents, business officers, personnel officers, and directors of institutional research. The following types of benefits are discussed: group life, health, long- and short-term disability income insurances, retirement systems, retirement plan participation, and federal social security. The study could be of interest to administrators and individual plan participants. (CA)