To ask if you get a Christmas bonus, and if you do how big a percentage of your salary is it?

[mameulah]

I found out tonight that my brother gets a whole months salary as a Christmas bonus. When I worked I got absolutely nothing. I always thought that getting nothing was normal. Or is everyone else out there getting loads of Christmas treats from their boss?

I used to get a profit - share bonus if profit targets were met (they always were when I was there) (no not because of me!) and that was 5% of salary, same for all staff, be it senior full equity partners or messengers. Obviously it differed in whack because of your salary but the percentage was the same.

My DH has his capped at 100% of his salary if profit targets are met. Its not at Christmas. But March. March is the MOST MAGICAL TIME....OF THE YEAR....

When they reach profit targets!

Though the tax man can go do one.

We get a corporate party with a couple of drinks tokens. I went last year but I'm not going this year as it was rubbish.

I'd rather they gave me a bottle of wine :)

Never had a bonus or even a gift, despite working 12 of the last 15 Christmases (and two if the ones I didn't work I was in hospital!)

Teacher, so no, but last year the head bought us all a drink at the Christmas party!

In my old job (started in 1988) I had a contractual 4% Xmas bonus, but it was part of my overall salary package not "extra money". So really just some of my wages held back.

In current job, I get a company bonus in September (depending on companies performance and then my own performance) which I keep by for Xmas. Sometimes its enough to cover Xmas spending other times not.

Work for the local council and get nothing!

Oh and I get a bottle of booze (whisky company, so we usually get a bottle from slow moving stock)

Apparently my employer used to give out vouchers for a local department store for Christmas. They stopped doing that. Instead they wait til the 22nd of December and then announce that they're magnanimously giving everyone Christmas Eve off as a bonus.

Dh gets a measly bonus in March too!
Never had anything for Xmas, and he has worked there for 26 years!

I work in Belgium and we get our salary paid as 13.85 months. So I get paid every month and I get an extra month's pay in December and "double holiday pay" in April (the 0.85) it's almost as if your employer does the saving up for you . This is standard for Belgian Employees. I also get a performance (mine and the company's) related bonus in March which is a bit more than a months wages normally.

Depending on performance our company places a load of money in a pot every month. It's then paid out the following year, half in Feb and half in September. Plebs get 1k in total, middle staff get 2k and we aren't told what senior management get so it's probably about 5k :p

That said, at the end of each year some crisis/court case happens which "unfortunately has to be taken out of the bonus pot" so I don't recall actually ever getting a bonus. Fingers crossed for this year!

Oh, we also get corporate Christmas party with drinks tokens.

Nothing as I work for myself.
DH gets a bonus, a posh meal in a very nice restaurant with drinks all in, loads of good presents- family cinema tickets, vouchers, wine, whisky, chocolates etc.

private health sector, no bonus here, if we're really lucky a few of the consultants might chip in a few quid for our Christmas party otherwise we pay for it ourselves!

I used to get 15% extra on my commission. I also used to get lots of gifts from customers, which once sold on pretty much alone paid for Xmas

A £40,000 bonus at Xmas/year end and £6000 per quarter if int div meet s sales targets, so far so good. About 95% of my salary approx.

My company puts on a lavish Christmas lunch in a fab London location, all drinks paid until mid evening when the managers buy rounds. I don't live in London and I get my travel and hotel paid for.

I got a bonus last year of just under a months salary, I was so thrilled. Best part is that they pay it at the end of November so you know where you stand as opposed to paying it two days before Xmas when all your shopping is done.

Private company, great employers.

I'm self-employed, so no. DH is a civil servant and is sometimes handed a bag of sweeties some gift vouchers if he does something super-duper, in lieu of a pay rise. They are usually £150, and this has happened between 1 and 3 times a year for about 5 or 6 years. It pays for the groceries for a couple of weeks, or allows us to replace a failing small appliance.

I remember back when we got a Christmas Box, late 1970s, a cardboard box filled with what you would call 'hamper items' nowadays. It was a gesture of appreciation from 'management' to the 'workers'. Even though I didn't need it as I was young, living at home with no family to support, it was generally accepted as a 'nice' thing. Being aircraft cleaners some of us would be working on Xmas Day etc, and really enjoy it too.

Haven't had anything like it for years since and find all this 'I'm a this, that or the other and I don't get one' a bit self-pitying.

As well as being self-employed and a carer I currently get a £10 Xmas bonus (Carers) and just asked my mate who's worked for the PO for 25 years who says they get £100 to £150.

I think it's a traditional thank you to the workers, the hand to mouth ones - not an expectation of middle-class/management 'professionals'.

I get £40 of capital bonds. Everyone gets the sane regardless of salary.

Performance based in June , up to 15% of salary . Work for FTSE 100. Also have sale bonus which is paid onto a tax free reward card.

Am a lawyer. I get £50 John Lewis vouchers.

Teacher here so nothing financial but lots of lovely Christmas cards from my class! Oh and the odd box of chocolates from a parent or two.

I get a day off meant for shopping, a book of vouchers (retail) and the social fund also pays part towards our works do. Oh and last year we had a 20% discount weekend instead of our usual 10%

My present job, nothing. The job I start in January, however, offers a bonus of about half one's annual salary, but there's no upward limit. If we deserve it, then probably equal to salary or more. But that all depends upon the company doing well, obviously.

I don't work now, I'm a SAHM. When I did though we used to get a bonus in the December pay packet of about £300.