People complaining about their 'bonus'

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Reading a thread about the NHS bonus and everyone unhappy that it's not as much as they expected because of deductions

Made me think that actually people are a bit entitled. we all get taxed on bonus, we should just be grateful we've had some extra.

Doesn't your salary comes from "other peoples money" too. Mine comes from people who buy vodka and whisky!

So you didn’t know your bonus would be taxed? Really?

Boo hoo. I’m sorry that you won’t have enough to spend on your foie gras this year.
Some of my colleagues are worried about eating - there’s a tiny food bank on our ward.
Let’s hope you never need treatment from the marshmallow club then. FYI there are some major procedures / dialysis etc that you can’t really get privately in the UK. Let’s hope you don’t encounter the marshmallow club then eh?
Half my husbands bonuses go in tax, it’s a bit annoying but I just remind him to look at the take home column of his salary. And to be fair I’ve done the same with my nhs pay this month.

If the reductions in the public sector were as the result of a properly managed restructure, fine. The whole of sector could certainly streamline at some levels. However, if as in the NHS, the vacancies are caused by conditions (have you seen how some of the public behave?), low pay in some roles, and too few staff, then even more clinical staff deciding to walk could be disastrous.

No one eats foie gras any more surely? Its so cruel.

@veryfluffyfluff I hope not. At the time I couldn’t think of anything else post and ridiculous off the top of my head! Whatever they say hunting is still a thing so who knows?

*posh

Totally not unreasonable. It’s not rocket science to realise you will lose about 30% to tax, pension and NI. It’s extra income.

It's NOT a bonus. It's back pay

And therefore is subject to tax and NI.

Well performance related pay in the nhs wouldn't work would it ?
Can't rely on that when there's always a permanently clogged up part in the process !

Many managers are denied pay point increments if their teams aren't up to date with training or who have received too many upheld complaints

Welcome to the real world folks, your pay goes up, you get a bonus, guess what it’s taxed like everyone else .Just wait until you lose your personal allowance and get taxed 62% on over 20k and have arseholes like Corbyn call you “tight fisted “when you work a 16 hour day without overtime,shift allowance or a bloody gold plated pension and your phone goes off at all hours of the day. Incidentally my late father was an nhs dr, so I’m not biased against nhs staff but know they often live outside the real world, no worry of redundancy, no worrying if the clowns in government will lose your pension, job for life unless you kill someone ,and then they just move you around.

No you’re right. No worry of redundancy at all 🙄

https://www.nhsprocurement.org.uk/news/6000-plus-jobs-be-cut-new-nhs-england

Their pay is disgusting and the bonus is an insult.

I wonder how the consultants will fare with their industrial action. Nurses lost a lot of money they could ill afford but it won't be such an issue on consultants' salaries.

I'm not sure a pay range of £28-50k (bands 5-7) could be described as 'disgusting' really. it's only a bit lower than junior doctors scale (£29-51k) but strangely the doctors don't seem to pull on the heartstrings like nurses apparently do.
Did you bother to look up the pay before you commented @ellyeth or did you just jump on the bandwagon? I can't imagine any other graduate profession with a starting rate of £28+ getting anywhere near such a sympathetic hearing.

Today's news is double the number of doctors and I think nurses to be trained which may help particularly if we can force them to stay in the NHS for say 15 years full time rather than train them and let them escape to other things or other countries.

"Presumably you have no need to access the NHS then and have no interest in whether healthcare in this country is available?" I feel the luckiest erson in England actually as I have only needed a doctor twice in about 15 years - I call them my £100,000 7 minute appointments. I woudl rather be allowed to opt out of the NHS and not pay 20% of my annual tax bill (the part that goes to the NHS) as I work 20% of the year simply to pay for an NHS I don't use and on top of that 30% of the year to pay rest of income tax and then we move on to working to pay all the indirect taxes we all pay including in my case thousands on insurance premium tax alone. tax tax tax - huge state, bloated awful big brother state, high spending high tax. The highest tax burden in 70 years.

i pay income tax towards a fire service I dont use. And an ambulance service I’ve never used.

Im bloody glad I’ve never used them but I’m more than happy that my tax money is there to keep them going just in case, and also for those that do need them.

Well if job security is more important than pay, maybe they should consider the civil service?!

Threads like this are always a good reminder about why we are where we are and why the Tories absolutely love us!!!

I'd say that the attitudes demonstrated by the majority of the posters who've replied here are perfect examples of why you are where you are.

Oh, and we don't love you !

And if money is so important, why not join the private sector? Either way, it's a lazy and silly response that's trotted out time and time again on threads like this

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If that's your best response it kind of proves my point I think

Have a beautiful day and just remember everyone’s opinions are valid, even yours 😎