Big Benefits

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daniel Levy, Ellin Martens, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, Owen Thomas and Josh Tyrangiel

WORK FARE Ford is giving its 350,000 employees PCs and Internet access for $5 a month. How does this $240-a-year bennie stack up against other workers' perks?

--Alexandria, Va.: Worldweb.net a start-up, gives free car washes ($10 a month)

--Sunnyvale, Calif.: Engineers at Interwoven get a leased BMW Z3 ($15,000 a year)

--Baltimore, Md.: Sylvan Learning offers pet health insurance ($16 a month co-pay)

--New York City: Junior lawyers at Gotshal Manges get $4,000 for home offices