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Work bonuses

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scarylea · 18/12/2018 18:02

Just wondered really if people get bonuses at christmas time? We haven’t had them for a few years now as things were a bit tight but am hoping seeing as we have had a better year we may!

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JustanotherCHRISTMASuser01 · 19/12/2018 05:58

£250 pre tax and they lowered our wages to take it into account we used to get a small target achieved bonus in our salary now they've lowered our wages to give it us at Christmas

retainertrainer · 19/12/2018 06:34

Naff all, just a card off my manager-NHS here too.

DH is a postie. He gets £200 bonus and around £400 in tips off his lovely customers.

LEMtheoriginal · 19/12/2018 06:38

We used to get bonuses of about £150 plus presents and vouchers from our bosses. Now we have been overtaken by corporate we get buggar all.

Santasshoe · 19/12/2018 06:47

I work in a school so nothing at all.

BrokenWing · 19/12/2018 07:48

For most people who get larger bonuses it is part of their salary package which just happen to fall around Xmas.

Say, for example, the market salary for the job is £25k. They get paid £23k and an average bonus of £2k, but if the bonus is related to business and personal performance it can be higher or lower some years.

It isn't free money, can you imagine a teacher (for example) getting paid £2k less and only getting that £2k if their students all passed their exams, and extra if they all got As, but achieving full bonus is impossible as some children don't have the aptitude or the exam was harder that year. It is the private sectors way of saving money when times are tough. The bigger the % bonus the higher risk of fluctuating income.

Sexnotgender · 19/12/2018 07:52

I get a bonus twice a year. Performance related.

Getting £2.5k in this months pay and also got a 16% pay rise.

macarenaferreiro · 19/12/2018 07:55

DH gets a bonus but not at Christmas, it's usually in May after the end of the financial year in April. Partly dependent on company performance, partly on individual performance.

I'm self-employed and I get nothing.

BirdieInTheHand · 19/12/2018 07:58

I get a 30% (ish) bonus. It's understood that its performance based (company and personal).

I don't see it as part of the "market rate" salary.

Idontmeanto · 19/12/2018 07:58

Public sector here, so no bonus really, but I am looking forward to my pay rise being backdated after the performance management cycle finishes. Does that count?

NameChanger22 · 19/12/2018 07:59

I've never, ever had one.

LaurieFairyCake · 19/12/2018 08:01

Someone I know just got an £850,000 bonus

And complained that it was down because of Brexit as last years was well over one million

He was really pissed off about it

RedDwarves · 19/12/2018 08:03

I'm in financial services (Australia). No bonuses since the Financial Crisis.

ShatnersWig · 19/12/2018 08:06

I worked in financial services PR for 8 years. Never had a Christmas bonus but did get share dividends occasionally at other points in the year depending on performance.

Been working for a charity for 13 years after a few years freelancing. I earn £6k less now than I was earning when I left PR 17 years ago! I've had a Christmas bonus six of those 13 years.

Ffsnosexallowed · 19/12/2018 08:08

A thank you email from my boss explaining that she'd left a box of chocolates for us to share in the other office, and that we weren't getting cards as she and her family are donating to the food bank. Thanks for that. I've got my team each a bottle of nice fizz. And a card. Nhs

Isittimeforbed · 19/12/2018 08:14

I work for the NHS so no bonus. We used to get a £5 voucher at Christmas but that stopped long ago.

retainertrainer · 19/12/2018 08:14

My boss isn’t doing gifts this year either. Do you know what I’d really appreciate though, some kind words of thanks, just feel that it’s all been appreciated would be nice.

Atetoomanymincepies · 19/12/2018 08:15

I got 900 euros, a very nice bottle of wine and a box of chocs. I usually get a summer bonus if around 200 euros too. We are returning to the UK soon though so will be finding a new job which I doubt will have so many perks!

EBearhug · 19/12/2018 08:20

Ours are performance - company and personal - and usually announced January, paid February. I think it's up to 10% of your salary. There are all sorts of other things going on with a new CEO, so who knows what will happen this year.

Spam88 · 19/12/2018 08:23

Nhs here as well, with a particularly mean boss who doesn't but so much as a pack of biscuits for us to share (nor thank us for working our arses off).

My DH has started a new job this year and got a bonus of 5% of his salary, plus and increment and a 2% pay rise 👍 oh and a free bar at the Christmas do, and a lovely lengthy email from the director about how hard they've all worked and what the plans are for the next year. Oh to work in the private sector!

OldGrinch · 19/12/2018 08:27

I work in a school we get a Christmas Card from the Head and free mince pies on the last day of term Grin so jealous of all these bonuses, my bank account is so empty and still have presents to buy

cropcirclesinthefields · 19/12/2018 08:30

Previous bosses I got a bottle of wine or £30, for the past few years it's been an 'are you being served' visit from the boss with a "you're all doing very well" speech.

Satsumaeater · 19/12/2018 08:46

I got a £50 voucher from mine. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

But no pay rise or proper bonus - nobody in our team did. I'm leaving next month but don't think I would have got one anyway.

In my previous job I used to get a £250 bonus prorated as I was part-time.

Foxyloxy1plus1 · 19/12/2018 08:59

Never had a bonus of any kind. If there was a Christmas do, we paid for it.

iLoveFoood · 19/12/2018 10:43

Usually €500 cash and a €500 gift voucher. Working at the company six years

viktoria · 19/12/2018 12:35

I work freelance so never ever get a bonus.
However, earlier this year I worked on a long running reality show. I didn't even do the whole run (which would have been 3 months) but only did 6 weeks.
Yesterday they sent me a bottle of Bollinger champagne. Totally unexpected - and very much appreciated!