Are you expecting a Christmas bonus?

[Whose]

YABU - No bonus for me!
YANBU - Of course!

If you do - how much?

I've worked many, many many many jobs and never once received a Christmas bonus, so I have no frame of reference!
I've been to a few limp Christmas dos, however, but (as an antisocial goit) I think I'd have rather had the cash!

(I'm starting a new business, which will be recruiting from 1st Jan and am wondering how much I need to budget in for Christmas bonuses, as I've seen them mentioned on here quite a bit and it seems like quite a lot of people really benefit from them.)

Not a chance. Never had one in 40 years of working.

TA here, so no bonus. Our. Headteacher doesn't even give us a Christmas card, let alone an actual gift. I do usually get some small gifts (chocolates, smellies etc) from some of the children and their parents. But nothing from our boss at all.

Nope - definitely no bonus here. My bloody boss has just sold my company car so he can pay the Christmas wages! What’s infuriated me is that as soon as he sold my car he spent nearly £6k on flights for the pair of us to go on a business trip next month when economy tickets would’ve been about £1k. He refuses to travel economy. So I get to drive nearly 300 miles to Heathrow in my £1500 eBay banger car to get on a £3k flight 🤣

No Xmas bonus here - I buy all my staff a gift and pay for the drinks at our Xmas do
We also do secret Santa
Last year because it had been such an unusual year I decided to give all the team some gift vouchers on top of the above - it caused such a controversy that I won’t be repeating this year
I have doubled my gift value though

No, but I get commission every month
We do get a paid for meal and have extra days off this year at Christmas

Years ago, I worked for the IT bit of a bank. Salaries weren't brilliant, but we got a mortgage subsidy. We got a 5% bonus split into 2 payments. 1 paid in November, their year end, and the other in May. My salary was £12k, and the May one paid a goid chunk of booking a September holiday, and the November one paid for a good chunk of Christmas.

Yes but it's a performance related bonus which just happens to be paid in Dec, so not a Christmas bonus as such. Large accountancy firm.

No bonuses here but my OH often gets given extra days holidays which he prefers to a cash bonus!

I get a £10 Christmas bonus added on to my carers allowance woo!

We’d usually get something towards a Christmas meal/night out pre Covid & an advent calendar each but they’ve given us some extra points instead this year. Points system means you can buy a small gift card from various places or save them for bigger items when you’re awarded or win more (this takes years to build up though). Fairer I think because if you weren’t having a meal/night out or didn’t attend you didn’t get anything

I’ve never worked in a place that does Christmas bonuses, although I have had them at the end of the tax year.
This year payroll messed up and have been paying me the wrong amount for several months so I’m hoping I get that backdated this month as a little bonus.

Work in higher education, so no, nothing. Not even a thank you most of the time.

No chance. The past 3-4 years we have been given a chocolate Santa. Before that when the business was smaller (so less staff to buy for) we had a bottle of Prosecco each.

Work for NHS so no bonus ever

No. Once I did, in the last 15 years.

I've worked for a small firm for the last seven years and have received £100 each year for Christmas. This year we have been sold to a bigger firm and I don't expect to get anything. Prior to that I was in education and we definitely didn't get anything

Public sector - no paid for Christmas meal or drink, certainly no bonus 🤣 in your position as a small company I’d have thought a £100 bonus would be lovely but that’s through my eyes (I’m aware if you work in the city earning ££ then you get an annual 1000s bonus but that’s so far from my field of reference - tbh it would prob help if you gave your field/budget op)

It’s going to depend on the industry, the size of the business, the turn over, the number of staff you expect to hire. A small business with 9 staff members in uniform manufacturing and sales, is going to be much lower than a global finance company with a turnover in the billions.

DH is in finance but a small, local firm and receives a yearly bonus at the end of the financial year based on company performance that year. His bonus is in the region of 0.01-0.5 of annual salary. His Christmas gift (vouchers and edibles) is usually in the region of £150-200. I’m not in finance and never had a bonus but work give us a gift, probably in the region of about £20. One of my old employers gave us our yearly allocation of PPE and new uniform as a ‘Christmas gift’, plus whatever shit merchandise they wanted to get rid off from the business. One year I got a branded ice scraper which broke after the first use!

NHS here so no. We’re not even allowed a Christmas party this year 🤷🏼‍♀️

Usually get a ~£100 token at Christmas and a Christmas party.

There is another bonus paid in December salary but that is related to performance and paid at the end of the financial year which is December. This is a multinational professional service company.

Yup, extra tenner in my carers!

I work for the NHS, so err, no.

NHS - no bonus and Christmas lunch is a small, short affair before we head back to work afterwards.

My bonus is performance related and up to 16% of my gross salary - paid 3 months after the end of the FY, nowhere near Xmas.

I wouldn’t include a Xmas bonus as a contractual term. When you expect something, you often don’t value it as much - certainly not in the “appreciative gesture” way. Because you’ve made it a right.

I’d recruit without a bonus, and wait until Xmas and then - if the employee is good and the business can afford it - give something. How much, is impossible to say. Depends on their salary, partly.

Time can be as valuable as money. A paid day off in December pre 25th to “get ready for Xmas” would make me smile more than, say, £50.

Private company who don’t give bonuses at any time, we usually get a Christmas Party where they pay for food and maybe 1 drink. Last year we got given a £50 voucher instead, we have already been told that was a one off.