What kind of bonuses do American jobs offer?

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I have heard many stories of people working in America receiving different kind of bonuses like a sign up bonus and performance bonus. In Europe we already have good worker laws so companies don't really offer flexible contracts. By law, Sunday and holidays are double pay, saturday 1.5x, night shifts and sick pay. etc. Since the work culture and laws are different in Europe vs America, I'd like to hear some nice perks you have heard/gotten from a job. I remember Google paying for a deceased employee's partner/kids for multiple years. Companies in Europe are much smaller and can't afford those kind of bonuses!

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machagogo@reddit

>we already have good worker laws "Good laws" preclude you from getting extra money? Think about that for a moment.

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Traumarama79@reddit

They do have good worker laws. 49/50 states allow employers to fire us for any reason as long as they don't tell us what it is, health insurance is only required for W2 employees who work =>40hrs/wk, FMLA is unpaid and marginal. All of that is taken care of in most European countries. Americans are pennywise and pound-foolish when it comes to this stuff. "I got a $1,000 bonus this year!" oh, wow! You can spend it on the health insurance premiums Europeans just pay for with their taxes! Or the student loan payments you're making that you needed to get the job in the first place!

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

no you are pennywise and pound foolish - europeans make much less, including benefits. All of your assumptions are wrong. Google it, you are basically lying.

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Traumarama79@reddit

If I'm wrong, feel free to fact-check me item by item.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

you can do that yourself you realize? Is it that you don't have google, or can't use it?

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Traumarama79@reddit

I'm trying to comment and not sure why it's not letting me.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

given your misinterpretations of what you posted, and the facts you made up, there is no hope I could convince you that water is wet, let alone anything that required more. I'm happy to help anyone learn, but I have learned there is no way that someone determined to be stupid on reddit can be helped to stop being stupid. I agree with many of the facts you posted, but thing the way you strung them together makes no sense. As do some of your conclusions, like the idea life is cheaper in Europe. That certainly wasn't the case when I lived in Europe, ex the poor areas.

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Traumarama79@reddit

Well, that's why I didn't want to do all the work I did of Googling those facts for you, and that was my point in the final paragraph. It is *objectively* true that the US does not have paid parental leave nor guaranteed healthcare for all. I find this morally reprehensible and precursory to a lousy quality-of-life. You don't. That's fine. I'm not an idiot, though. I just have drawn different conclusions than you from the facts presented. You *have* to agree with my facts, as they are facts, but the both of us are free to draw different conclusions from them and therefore have different policy preferences. Let's take another example we see in family sociology. Children from single-parent households tend to have worse outcomes in a variety of areas. The more liberal interpretation here is that these households are in greater need of social services and support, whereas a conservative interpretation might be that single parenthood should be discouraged via marriage-promoting policies. I appreciate and respect your position based on lived experience living in Europe. I also appreciate that we all have different lived experiences. My family in Europe are having a quite good time, as have a number of people on social media I've seen. Likewise, I live somewhere that has an incredibly low CoL, because it's a rural area nearer to a post-industrial Rust Belt community. The poverty rate is a quarter. Yet, because I enjoy a comfortable salary, good benefits, and own land, I enjoy a good quality-of-living. Would I extrapolate from my lived experience that this is a great place to live? No because, for a lot of people, life here sucks; it did for me when I was in college and struggling to get ahead. I think this has been a good conversation for the both of us. I've learned and appreciate that you don't want to live in Europe anymore. That's fine. I don't think you're an idiot for it, though. I think a good policy for all of us in this species, no matter what country we live in and which policies they boast, is to learn to get along and learn from each other.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

you should note that its common - all of us who have lived in Europe who post here have much less "pie in the sky" views of europe than the Americans who imagine something is better out there than the richest country in the world. Now none of this means the US can't be better. Health insurance should be separate form work, we should copy Switzerland or Germany or one of the countries that has a good system. There ARE a number of ways the US could learn from Europe and be better. But in general, the US is a much much better place to live, even as is, and people don't realize it as they have never lived abroad. We don't realize how rich we are - instead we imagine this world where everyone in Europe lives this wonderful life. And in practice European immigration to they US vastly outpaces the reverse, because the US is so much better to be middle class or above. Even for the poor I think I'd prefer the US, though it gets harder. Google English Council estates, Parisian Banlieus and Naples slums. People don't realize how shitty a life a lot of people in Europe live. They Judge by the center of Paris, and thats where rich people live, not normal people

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Traumarama79@reddit

I guess instead of "richest country in the world", I see 50 not-richest countries in one union. I live in Indiana, for example. The meth and heroin problems in my community are crippling. The average life expectancy for my last zip code was in the low 60s. The US might be a great place to be middle class or above but, having been both poor and middle class in the US, I think that American poverty offers a very low quality-of-life. Also, believe me, I judge France *not* at all by Paris in any capacity. To judge any country by its most popular city is foolish. I'm also not judging the Netherlands by Amsterdam nor the UK by London. I'm no stranger to the Grenfell disaster, either. But I suppose the difference here is, would you rather your council flat catch fire, or would you rather your trailer catch fire because your neighbor's meth lab blew up?

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

I'd rather the trailer, because it's easy to get out of. Its a spectrum even in Europe of course, but there is a reason illegal immigrants who are already in France risk their lives to cross the english channel to get to England - its because they think their lives will be better there. And the wealthier ones come to the US by choice. Immigrants would literally and demonstrably rather be poor in the US than elsewhere. The only country where people don't vote with their feet to live in the US is Australia.

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Traumarama79@reddit

I think immigrants are a special case too, though, because the US has historically had friendlier immigration policies than European countries. ("Historically" being the operative word here; it looks like we're heading in the opposite direction.)

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

yes that is true. We are still much friendlier to immigrants by far than Europe is culturally, or even Canada now though that one is weird and recent, and people around the world go off the first hand information of how well their cousins are doing in the US, and how well they aren't doing in Germany. And they think they will suceed in the US, so they don't care about the fact that being poor and dysfunctional in the US gets much less suppport

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Traumarama79@reddit

Right. In my case, as far as Filipinos, most Filipinos immigrate to the US either via the marriage visa like my mom (which typically requires a spouse who is doing well financially; my biological father had a good position in the Air Force when I was born), or the H1B via nursing jobs (which are usually lousier than most American-born nurses take but Filipino nursing jobs are such shit that there's really no comparison), or chain migration because your relative did one or the other. So all the Filipinos hear is how great the US is. And, although there's a lot more anti-immigrant sentiment in smaller communities particularly these days--such as where I live in the rural Midwest--I've heard online from Black people or just nonwhite people in general that, say, the French treat foreigners like just absolute crap, even to their faces, even if they speak French. Sucks because I speak a little French and have always wanted to spend some time there to just enjoy the culture and practice my French, but I'm Filipino so I don't want to risk being mistreated in an unfamiliar country.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

the french are famously bad to nonwhite immigrants per my brown friends who grew up there. but ironically, they hate the french and still like visiting paris, I think it's much different as a tourist. I've certainly had no issue but I look dutch

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Traumarama79@reddit

That's interesting. I've even heard from brown tourists that the French just hate brown people in general lol.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

they do yeah. But you won't experience that as an American tourist - you will go in the "american" box not the brown people box. It's a reaction to immigration from Africa/North Africa really, and americans don't fall into that category

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Tyler_s_Burden@reddit

A lot of Americans haven’t had meaningful relationships with people from other countries and have NO idea how much better the rest of the developed world has it as citizens of countries that are there to protect and serve their interests. With salary/bonus, like everything else in America, it’s far worse for 95% of the population as there are no foundational protections. Americans are treated as a commodity to be exploited with their government’s blessing. However, for the other 5%, the sky is the limit on the money/lifestyle/QoL you can achieve in the US. And in the US that can truly be anyone with smarts, a work ethic and a little luck that can achieve extraordinary success. Thus, the world over people become entranced by “the American dream”. I work in finance, my husband in consulting, and the bonuses would hurt your soul. My boss, for example, gets 100% of her substantial salary as a near-guaranteed bonus each year. Every person in my born family, though, works entry level jobs without even basic protections. My sister was fired when she was attacked at work and needed a couple days off, and her husband is only now eligible for health insurance they can barely afford after 1 year in role. They declared bankruptcy in their 20s due to an inability to pay health costs previously. That has made their ability to find a place to live really challenging. Moving is not only expensive, it is very disruptive to work, children’s school, etc. And of course in America you only earn your right to healthcare by working, and sometimes not even then, and so the cycle of exploitation continues until you ‘retire’ and get to navigate the (surprisingly expensive!) labyrinth bureaucracy that is Medicare (the limited healthcare granted to the elderly). In the US the ceiling is higher for sure, but the ground level is non-existent.

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Traumarama79@reddit

Yeah, I'm from an immigrant family and am the first to receive a Bachelor's and then my Master's. I make a comfortable salary, live in a low-CoL community so I can afford to save and enjoy disposable income, and my employer treats me very well. But I had to struggle to get here, though I was very fortunate to have help in the form of family. I understand why my relatives don't see the problems with American life or government; in Philippines, it's like all the problems we have here, but a million times worse. I could go on. But the thing that kills me, and I've witnessed this many times because my spouse is an auto mechanic, is how easily some populations in the US are convinced things are so great because we "don't pay" for all the things many other countries are taxed for, like healthcare, time off, and so on. Socialism is a very dirty word in my community, and for no good reason other than that the fatcats have sold poorly educated people propaganda about how great it is to shoot themselves in the foot.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

have you ever pondered why your family immigrated here rather than to a "socialist paradise"? The US system is better. Its also got downsides and is not perfect. All of those things can be true at once

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Traumarama79@reddit

I'm Southeast Asian. My family immigrated here because my biological father is a pedophile and a sex tourist. He essentially imported my mother. I have relatives who had more say-so in where to immigrate to and they picked Canada and the Netherlands. Please do not speak of things for which you have no context.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

well that is a special case. Why don't you move to the netherlands though if you prefer it? or Canada? Neither is all that hard, though I've Dutch citizenship so that skews things a bit.

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Traumarama79@reddit

My partner and I have talked about reaching out to my family in the Netherlands when we become empty nesters. I've always really admired Dutch culture since I was a kid learning about Anne Frank. Definitely it's high on my list of places to visit. But it would be hard for us to part ways with our child. That's the biggest caveat to the "just move" advice a lot of people give to those of us who understandably complain about the States' lack of a social safety net. People don't like to leave their families. I have a good friend who is single, though, and looking at Canada. I don't blame her.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

but if you aren't empty nesters, why not bring your child? Canada isn't even a culture shock

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Traumarama79@reddit

We coparent with my ex and his partner, who also have kids from his partner's previous marriage. Blending families does that. If we were the sole parents in the situation and our kid was the sole kid, we'd probably just go on and do it, honestly. We've all three talked about how much we'd like to leave.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

But why not Canada still? Its really quite easy to get back and forth, I used to date a canadian girl and it was no harder than dating anyone else. So the kids aren't going to never see each other, unless you are dead set on one neighborhood or such

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Traumarama79@reddit

Bro do you have kids?

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

yes

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Traumarama79@reddit

So you would be willing to internationally coparent, if your coparent wanted to leave the US?

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

I'd see no difference between 1 state over and canada. A plane is a plane. I'd much rather not get divorced in the first place of course. But frankly it takes a decent amount of time in my experience to move countries, why not start now?

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Traumarama79@reddit

We actually have looked at some apartments in like Haarlem and found they're within price range; actually, taking a cursory look right now, it looks like monthly average rents in Haarlem are about what it costs to rent a home in a bad neighborhood in my city. At the end of the day, we have it well where we're at for the life we want to build for ourselves given all of our circumstances. I think if we wanted more of an urban lifestyle, the Netherlands would be a terrific fit for us, but we live a rural lifestyle and own an acre. One thing the US has over most countries in the world is sheer space. You can be poor and have a backyard, if that's a thing that matters to you. But please don't use my one anecdotal experience as evidence that the US is objectively more terrific for the middle class than Europe, though; you could just as easily do that with, say, someone who has impulsively moved her whole family to the Netherlands and [loves it](https://www.renegademothering.com/2023/03/17/alright-mothers-we-have-a-new-rule/). We also might someday decide to emigrate, if we decide we don't like living rurally as much in, say, five years time. Let's get back to matters of population. It would behoove us to reflect upon all the potential reasons why people might not want or be able to leave the US: * Rhetoric (true or exaggerated) about how the US is so free and liberated relative to every other part of the world. I respect your opinion that the US is better because at least you've based it on data, even if you've drawn different conclusions than me. I'm used to people in my county who, say, think that solar energy doesn't work because snow goes on top of the panels, as though we cannot simply remove the snow. Our educational system is very lousy and it tricks people into buying false statements, rather than drawing their own conclusions. * Preference for being within driving distance of family. * Inability to immigrate to certain countries due to criminal status (which, thanks to our criminal justice system, Americans are more likely to be felons). * Simple lack of money, again, thanks to the hand-to-mouth lifestyle that American wages and benefits (or lack thereof) and cost-of-living provide.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

you might look into the netherlands housing crisis. It's very hard to get a place. You can't look at the price alone. Google "netherlands housing crisis" I am not using my anecdotal experience on middle class being better in the US - this is generally accepted as fact. Read a bit on the subject. The middle class median income in France is around 2100 euros a month. That's a bit more than 24k us obviously if you add in health insurance and social subsidies, but if you think 30k in the US is a good income you are nuts. We have plenty of bad education and stupid people in the US. US bad education is as bad as anywhere in the developed world. US good education, even on high school level, is better than anywhere else. look at how many people come to US universities to study. Its a huge number. They are doing that for a reason. Its very easy for Americans who offer something to their new country to move countries. I know literally hundreds who have done so, though that is selection bias for my peer group - people who attend my Ivy league Uni get the right automatically in many countries. (they all moved back but 2, one of whom splits 50/50 london NYC). The problem is no country wants people who will do nothing but drain the new country and not contribute. And those of us who are net contributors prefer living here. For example, I have a Dutch friend and a german friend here. Both like Europe. They like the US too, but they might well prefer Europe. But in Europe each would make under 100k euros a year. Here they make over 500k euros. And every time they look into Euro jobs they decide that it's better to go visit on vacation rather than take the horrible hit to their standard of living.

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Traumarama79@reddit

That's very true about the crisis. I was following a TikToker for a while--before I quit TikTok--who had emigrated from the US to the Netherlands to take advantage of the healthcare system (they suffered a really rare illness and were having a hard time finding care for it) but then they got to the Netherlands and, while it was an improvement in several other areas of life, they found it very difficult to secure housing. Given the size and population of the Netherlands, the housing crisis doesn't surprise me. $30k in the US is an absolute crap income, you're right, and [about half](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf) of the median annual income in the US. But, if the average singleton is spending [$8,435](https://www.kff.org/health-costs/2023-employer-health-benefits-survey/#b48e3171-2c69-40be-a9c8-dac517bc71e7) per year on healthcare premiums alone, that drops it down to $53,757, not counting prescription costs, copays, etc. Let's just say that the average deductible is [$2,912](https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/deductibles-in-aca-marketplace-plans/), which is the average Marketplace deductible per KFF. That brings you down to $50,845, if you hit your deductible annually (which I always did before I got a sick-ass $0 deductible plan). Factoring in an average of $250 for monthly student loans, that's now $47,845 after healthcare and postsecondary ed expenses. Still much higher than $30k, though, but I was then also interested to see what a general cost-of-living comparison would look like. Turns out that France has a CoL about [68%](https://livingcost.org/cost/france/united-states) of the US. At that point, for an ordinary middle class person, France is the net positive. I absolutely can see your friends who make 500k euros preferring the US. The US is a great place to be affluent. It's not as great a place to be middle class or lower-income, in my opinion, having been both here. My jab at the American educational system was specifically K12. Our universities are outstanding. Well, for now. Our policies are not headed in the right direction with postsecondary ed. I went to a mid-tier state school and still got a great education. Unfortunately, having worked in higher ed for the last several years, I can tell you that the lousy K12 system produces jarring aftereffects in the postsecondary system. Not to mention, we can essentially think of the US as having two postsecondary systems: the extremely high-quality one in which Ivy League and state flagships carry mid-tier state institutions, and the lower-quality for-profit institutions which economically cripple the least-advantaged students.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

utter nonsense, and I've lived abroad including europe. The VAST majority of Americans are better off. You are in finance, google it. The lack of data here is very compliance coded

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machagogo@reddit

Or, or.. you're just thinking small. As for insurance. You pay for it one way or the other. I'd take my salary and insurance over the comparable position in Europe any day. Unions are a great thing

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SlamClick@reddit

I work in a kitchen. We might get the odd beer or pizza. My father worked in a bank and he got a new car every 3 years.

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LouisRitter@reddit

Benefits of a kitchen? Depression and probably a crippling addiction.

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tlollz52@reddit

Working in a kitchen was simultaneously the most fun I've ever had at a job and the worst job I ever had.

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Bitter-Art7631@reddit

Yep. Was a line cook for 8 years. Had lots of fun, hooked up with lots of waitresses, learned a valuable skill, and would never want to work in a kitchen again.

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badtux99@reddit

My dad hooked up with one of the waitresses, and nine months later I arrived. He got out of the kitchen as soon as he got a votech certificate via his GI Bill benefits to move to a less… kitchen… profession.

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sadthrow104@reddit

They still together?

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badtux99@reddit

My dad's been dead for a while now, so no.

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sadthrow104@reddit

I guess my question would then be, did they stay together?

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badtux99@reddit

Until us kids were grown anyhow.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

Less kitchen is good. Same for being a mechanic and a medic. Turns out computers aren't greasy, oily, or full of ick. Just have to sit here and reply to emails. BLISS!

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QaraKha@reddit

Woah now, times really have changed. Used to be you needed a crippling addiction to work in the kitchen, bo they just give you one!

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Hillbillygeek1981@reddit

As with many things, they figured out starting fresh with on the job drug training was more effective than just picking out the most skilled coke fiend with a knife. They also drug test now, but that's just to determine whether the soux chef or the executive is going to be a better dealer for you.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

OJT: Nice!

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PacketOfCrispsPlease@reddit

The don’t just *give* you one. You gotta work for it!

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Pain4420@reddit

You gotta have one to last

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Xistential0ne@reddit

Ya but we also get walk in refrigerator sex.

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LouisRitter@reddit

No thanks. The walk-in is where we cry and hit vapes. A 20 year old beat up car in the parking lot is where sexy times are had.

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Xistential0ne@reddit

You yung ins flipped the script. In the 80’s walk ins were for sex, cars were for lines during coffe breaks and hotboxing at the end of your shift.

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LouisRitter@reddit

Bathrooms are for doing lines. No reason to brave the elements for your toot.

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Red_Beard_Rising@reddit

My old lady worked in kitchens much of her younger life. She told me of employee restrooms where staff would just leave coke lying around as like a communal depot for whenever someone needed a bump.

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LouisRitter@reddit

I can verify that these things actually happen. In a former life I ran a kitchen and my cooks would leave communal bumps in the employee bathroom. It was just the gentlemanly thing to do at the time. Thankfully I'm sober now because a couple of those guys didn't even make it to 50 before they passed.

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Dragosal@reddit

Benefits include easy access to drugs, someone in the kitchen is dealing

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funatical@reddit

Not crippling enough.

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TheDreadPirateJeff@reddit

But free pizza.

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW@reddit (OP)

I remember working in an ethnic restaurant and they always fed me nice food during breaks and I could bring the leftovers home with me for FREE. Those were good times, large corpo chains rarely give out free food for employees.

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Folksma@reddit

When I was a server, having the managers at Dennys force us throw out all of the perfectly good Doprdash orders that never got picked up almost radicalized me lmao

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Madrona88@reddit

Costco does this. Too many pizzas? Write it down and throw it out. Like anything left over. Out it goes.

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Ok-Tomatillo-7141@reddit

I used to work at Costco both in the food court and the service deli. I watched them throw away 400 whole frozen chickens because they were a day past the expiry date. They were frozen!! You couldn’t donate that to a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter or something?? Pissed me off.

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Superb-Team-7984@reddit

The homeless shelters near me are very clear that they don't accept expired products

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

That's wild because I am in a high income area and they definitely give us expired food at the food pantry

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

pantry can do it - they have no risk. Though I bet they are not doing it on purpose. Costco has too much risk from poisoning people

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

I'm not sure if you meant to comment to me because I was talking about expiration date policies

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DrJackBecket@reddit

Yup, there is definitely legal red tape at play. It falls on the business if something goes wrong with the food and the person eating it. It sucks but donating it is a massive risk. Easier to just toss it! I worked grocery and threw away a depressing amount of food...

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

often they can't, no.

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Superb-Team-7984@reddit

At least where I live, by law, no you couldn't donate it

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heysomekirstin@reddit

let it radicalize you lol

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BookLuvr7@reddit

I've heard of cases of people throwing it away in a clean trash bag with nothing else, them coming back for it to eat it later. If they're desperate and the food is perfectly good, I can't say I blame them.

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CommitteeofMountains@reddit

Apperantly, tracking leftovers is important for planning inventory in a way I don't follow.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

if you can't manage leftovers to steal food you are an idiot - too many people were doing it so the crackdown was no one can take

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Free_Diet_2095@reddit

I think its more to stop employees from intentionally making to much so they get free food but I could be wrong.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

I have always said if you do not feed your people for free they will steal from you. If these employees were happy and full of food, they would not feel the need to make extra so that they could feed themselves. If I was a restaurant owner at the end of the night. Of course, if my people had family they could feed them

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

If there is no other deviant practices in play, tracking leftovers is important. I work in a production kitchen and it helps us know what to predict as far as waste versus use

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TheSlideBoy666@reddit

At booger king, I was told employees might overcook at the end of the night so there are leftovers to take home.

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OtherOtherDave@reddit

When I worked there we’d get a free sandwich and as many sides/drinks as we wanted anyway. I guess that policy’s changed if they’re worried about people messing up orders just to get the food. Or maybe it varies by location? Dunno.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

Oh yeah, I worked as a line cook at Outback and Denny's and was never hungry. And roommate worked at a bagel place; always had a quick breakfast, if a little plain. Woulda been nice if we had a roomie who worked at a liquor store.

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Florginian@reddit

Really?!? I've never seen a restaurant that doesn't give the cook's a free meal every night they work. Maybe it's a regional thing, but even at Texas Roadhouse we did that, and that's a large national chain.

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Jarlaxle_Rose@reddit

At Domino's we used to trade pizza for beer with the grocery store in our strip center

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Up2nogud13@reddit

When I was there, as closing driver with the head manager, we'd cook up a tray of 10" pepperonis right at closing. I'd head of to the bars and sell them for $5-10 each, while he did closing paperwork, then we'd split the money. As an MIT, if I had one of the "cool" drivers working, any orders in the last half hour or so would get sold without getting written up, and we'd split the money. We called it "MIT bonuses".

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

We traded for eggrolls from the Chinese takeout 2 doors down. Occasionally we'd get a backdoor trade of beer for pizzas from Skaggs-Alburtsons further around the corner strip-mall.

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Canada_Haunts_Me@reddit

I worked at Pizza Hut in high school, and we traded with the Mexican restaurant next door.

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farmerben02@reddit

Worked at a NY pizza place, we traded for chicken wings and ribs with the fancy southern bbq place. Always felt we got the better end of the deal. They made a creamy dill sauce for wings I can't replicate despite 30 years of trying.

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chickenfightyourmom@reddit

I worked at a pizza hut too, back in the day. We traded a couple of pizzas for a handle of vodka on the weekends.

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Chemical-Quality-186@reddit

The little ceasers in town trade pizza for vapes and monster from the tobacco store two doors down.

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stabbingrabbit@reddit

Traded pizza for movie tickets.

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remix951@reddit

Traded pizza for weed. Granted, it was a customer and they had already paid for the pizza but they offered it to me all the same.

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imakatperson22@reddit

My mom said she’ll used to trade cookies for pizza when she worked in a bakery

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

When I was an aircraft mechanic (USAF), the captain would have coolers of beer Friday afternoons. That was nice.

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NoSpaghettiForYouu@reddit

I work in a bank. I get $500 every Christmas. But it has the taxes taken out already, so…

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Away-Living5278@reddit

My dad works for a car dealership and even he's never gotten a car. He gets a basket of fruit and a holiday ham

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BookLuvr7@reddit

New car? Was he a boomer or am I just in the wrong field.

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SlamClick@reddit

Boomer for sure.

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BookLuvr7@reddit

Ah. The only wealthy generation, yet they think everyone is capable of affording a home, 2 cars, college educations for themselves and their children if they "just try hard enough."

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Turbulent_Shoe8907@reddit

Probably one of the C suite crowd. It’s a whole different world. One of my clients (auto detail) is one of THEM and he happily tells me about the perks. He’s been with me for years and his organization is big on EVs for officers so despite him not actually paying for the car he’s had me coat three Teslas in the past three years. Whadoicare? Money’s money

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

White collar jobs still often give out significant bonuses. Not all of them, mind you, but anything VP and up at a large bank for example (VPs are a dime a dozen) will have a five figure bonus every year.

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gard3nwitch@reddit

Man I need to go work for that bank lol. Mine just offers better than average vacation time.

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TheRealCorwin@reddit

I get about $1500 and 1/4 beef (one quarter of 1 cows meat) as a Christmas bonus

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notthegoatseguy@reddit

Most office jobs don't work on weekends and often have a handful of federal holidays off too. If you're salaried, you often don't get any kind of overtime pay because...well, you're salaried. My bonus is performance based, both on my performance and the company's. It (mostly) happens every year. There's been one or two over a decade where it hasn't paid out.

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Ok-Station-1996@reddit

Same experience as you except my office job did require weekend work. Not officially, but because we were salaried it was possibly for the work to be piled on beyond what was manageable during the workweek; even working 10+ hours a day. Weekend work was a must. There was no overtime because we were salaried. It was worth it when the company was giving nice bonuses and raises every year. But post-covid boom, those benefits dried up entirely, layoffs started in earnest, and those who remained were even more under the gun, with salaries that didn’t even keep up with inflation. It was an industry-wide problem.

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Psychoboy@reddit

10% annual bonus, 8-5 mon-fri job, 25 days of PTO, 18 holidays paid off

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GPB07035@reddit

Was getting 13% including 3% base (unrelated to contributions) 6% matching and 4% that went into a separate retirement account that was not a 401k. They dropped the last 4# when business got bad after a buy out. Current employer does not match at all.

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Supermac34@reddit

When I changed jobs to my current IT position in 2022, I received $150K cash bonus and a $200K bonus in shares. My yearly target bonus is 30% for cash and 50% for equity.

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Beneficial-Two8129@reddit

ost full-time employees receive health insurance and company contributions to a retirement plan. Subsidized life/disability insurance is another common perk. Many employers in high-traffic areas will offer subsidies for public transportation. Paid leave is not required by law except in a few States, but most full-time employees get at least 10 vacation days and seven paid holidays, and for skilled workers, it tends to be 20 vacation days and at least 10 holidays. The Family and Medical Leave Act requires that employers grant 12 weeks of leave to employees for the birth or adoption of a child or for a serious health condition of the employee or a family member, but it does not require that the employee be paid during said leave, but many employers do offer paid parental leave. 50% premium over the standard hourly rate is required by law for hourly workers for each hour in excess of 40 per week, but employees may, subject to company policy, choose to receive extra paid vacation in lieu of overtime pay. The employee must always have the option to receive cash, but employers can offer the employee the choice between cash or extra vacation. Extra pay for holidays and weekends is not required by law if the employee is only working up to 40 hours for the week, but many employers offer double or even triple the standard hourly rate for working on a holiday. Employers are ordinarily liable if employees are injured on the job, in which case, the employee is typically entitled to be paid 2/3 of salary while recuperating and entitled to return to the job when recovered, plus reimbursement of actual medical expenses. In the case of a permanent disability or fatality resulting from the accident, the employee or the employee's family will reach a deal with the employer about equitable compensation or the matter will be decided by a lawsuit (most employers settle to avoid the expense of a lawsuit that will almost surely result in a judgment against them anyway, and they typically have insurance to cover this). Such claims apply even if the employer was not at fault as long as the employee himself was not at fault (e.g., the employee was injured during a robbery). There have been rare but notorious cases of employees being fired because they attempted to stop a crime against company policy because doing so exposed the employer to liability if the employee was injured.

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Cautious_General_177@reddit

What I've seen for bonuses: Signing bonuses, relocation allowances, annual performance bonuses, retention bonuses. Hourly jobs will also pay 1.5x or 2x for overtime, and depending on the type of job may pay extra for working weekends or night shift. My last job was rotating shifts, so there wasn't any extra pay for Saturday/Sunday, but night shift got an extra $1.50/hour, and any regularly scheduled time over 40 hours in a week was 1.5 x and over 60 hours was 2x. If you worked on a day off it was either 1.5x or 2x (first rest day/second rest day - which is a much longer explanation) regardless of how many hours you had worked. If you worked a holiday, it was 2x pay, plus 8 or 12 hours of regular pay, depending on if it was a scheduled work day or a scheduled day off that you ended up working - yes, that means if I was scheduled to work Thanksgiving, I received 3x pay for that day. Every non-military job I've had has sick leave and at least 15 days of PTO per year, plus holidays. Military doesn't do "sick leave", but you could get SIQ from medical, which is kind of the same, but you had to go to medical to get seen by the doc.

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External-Prize-7492@reddit

My husband works for a military contractor. He gets a yearly bonus. It’s 25% of his salary. His salary is 203,000k.

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buck_nasty123@reddit

I work for an airline so I fly standby for free but I’m sure that’s an airline perk and not US specific. We also get profit sharing bonuses based on how well the company did financially and they’re typically around 10% of your salary but it has been higher before.

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Stl25950@reddit

20-30% of my salary paid in November

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Low-Landscape-4609@reddit

My wife gets a Christmas bonus every year. My last place of employment before I retired offered us a bonus every year. It was a few hundred dollars every year during christmas. Nothing crazy.

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tnick771@reddit

Are you asking about overtime/holiday pay or bonuses? Bonuses are paid out typically quarterly or annually as a lump sum. You’re describing hourly multipliers which will vary by state.

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW@reddit (OP)

As in federal law, what are the different kind of laws when it comes to mandatory vacation days, holiday pay, weekend pay etc? Also would like to hear if some states have better working laws?

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mr_jugz@reddit

california probably has the best worker laws. can’t remember but like overtime after 8 hours, etc

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TheMarshmallowFairy@reddit

My first full time job outside of high school was in CA. Iirc, we got overtime pay for any time worked past 8 hours in a single day, and automatically got overtime for any time worked after 40 hours in a week, and if we worked 7 days in a row, that entire 7hour day was also overtime even if we didn’t meet the overtime limits on the other days. (Like work mon-sat 4 hour shifts per day, all of Sunday’s time is overtime even though you’d only have accumulated 24 hours of pay for the week.) it’s been awhile, but I don’t think it reset on a specific day, it could that you worked Wednesday to Tuesday, same rules (or at least that’s how my company did it, they may have been playing it safe though, since we had just gone through another settlement where they had to pay out employees because they pushed the limits of a different labor law). It was a very sad day when I transferred to another state and I no longer had those same protections 🥲

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West_Light9912@reddit

Overtime after 8, double after 12

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mr_jugz@reddit

luxurious! lmao. the amount of 15hr days i put in over here in nyc… sigh

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bolivar-shagnasty@reddit

There are no federal laws mandating vacation days. There are no federal laws mandating holiday or weekend pay. America is one of the most worker-unfriendly countries in the world.

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o93mink@reddit

It depends what you mean by worker-unfriendly. We have some of the highest pay in the world, even at the lowest level jobs. We just have some of the fewest mandatory guarantees. So if you want to make more money and take less vacation, there’s nowhere better. If you want to make less money and have more guaranteed vacation and protections in law, you’d be better off so where else.

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bolivar-shagnasty@reddit

> We have some of the highest pay in the world That, too, depends on many factors. Federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. I doubt there are many jobs out there starting that low, but we can use McDonald's as an example. In my area, McDonald's advertises $10 an hour for most shifts. But there are some huge caveats there. Like the lack of full-time hours, the lack of any tangible benefits like healthcare, and almost no PTO accrual for part time workers. But you can look to Europe and see that McDonald's pays their staff incredibly well without charging incredibly higher prices. So, sure, a plastic surgeon or aeronautical engineer might make more here than in other countries. But the vast majority of workers aren't in that tier of work.

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West_Light9912@reddit

Working at McDonald's is not a difficult job and rightfully isnt gonna subsidize your whole life

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bolivar-shagnasty@reddit

> Working at McDonald's is not a difficult job and rightfully isnt gonna subsidize your whole life I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Are you saying that people don’t deserve living wages if their job doesn’t meet some standard of difficulty?

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

yeah, US is pay you what you earn. So if you don't contribute much, you don't get much. Europe is much better at paying people more than they create for the economy. The problem is, the math kills you on this, a problem Europe is running into now. If you pay everyone more than they contribute, you go broke.

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West_Light9912@reddit

They are living wages for bare minimum things. Those jobs will eventually be automated. I'd rather everyone work a job where humans are needed

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

it really doesn't depend. the vast majority of workers make more in the US. This is a fact, you can google it, you can't have an opinion about it. There is no minimum wage in much of northern europe at all by the way. Does that matter? Not at all. Minimum wage is a pointless stat on how we pay teenagers doing shit jobs

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o93mink@reddit

1.1% of workers make minimum wage: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2023/ But as you can see, people across most income ranges are substantially wealthier in the US than in Europe: https://www.pewresearch.org/global-migration-and-demography/2017/04/24/middle-class-fortunes-in-western-europe/ You can make QOL arguments based on benefits and transfers, but in terms of income the data just isn’t there: you make more money in the US no matter how rich or poor you are.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

It doesn't matter how few make it, the very fact that such a wage is legal and some people can't get better paying work is a stinging indictment of the absolute and utter failure of our country with regard to labor law.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

american workers are some of the highest paid in the world. That's why the only country that has more americans than immigrants here is Australia. The idea its bad to be an american worker does not pass muster if you look at the data.

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ItsUnderSocr8tes@reddit

Most of the pay and vacation will vary but not necessarily be driven by law. In general, jobs in the US will see more variability in pay, there will be jobs that pay less than in Europe, and some that pay far far greater than in Europe. In comparison, pay ranges tend to be more closely clustered in Europe. For most professional jobs (i.e. not seasonal or part time work frequented by students, youth, or those without degrees or professional skills), workers with no experience will start with 2 weeks of vacation in addition to about 10 paid holidays. As a career progresses, vacation time will increase to 5-6 weeks. There is probably less vacation time starting out than in Europe, but this evens out after mayeb 10 years of career experience. However, the starting pay for these professional careers will be typically higher than in Europe. Benefits might cost a nominal amount each paycheck for health insurance, etc. But income taxes are much lower in the US (20-28% for the vast majority) vs say 40-50% in Europe. Regarding taxes, you get what you pay for and pay for it either through insurance premiums or private retirement savings, or through taxes.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

in general US jobs are much better paid than in Europe, not just a little. Where you win in Europe is at the bottom of the pay structure

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snmnky9490@reddit

There are essentially no laws mandating any of those things. I have never had a paid day off, holiday pay, or weekend pay at any job in my life.

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notapunk@reddit

Not entirely sure why you're getting down voted, but yeah, there aren't any federal laws and I'm pretty sure there aren't any state or local ones either. In the US you're at the whim of whatever a company does or doesn't want to give you.

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Struggle_Usual@reddit

0, zip, zilch. We're legally given bupkiss other than if you're hourly you get time and a half when you work over 40 hours in a week. Salaried you don't. Some states have small sick leave requirements, typically 5 days max a year. It's quite rare.

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standard-and-boars@reddit

Oh if you’re salaried and make more than like $60k or something like that you don’t get holiday or weekend or overtime pay. Some places might give you a spot bonus or an extra vacation day to make up for it, but that’s not mandatory. This stuff is all by state, not federal/national.

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SnowCorgi@reddit

You got downvoted, i assume, because we do not have any mandatory time. You are guaranteed nothing in the American workforce. Some states have laws that allow you to be fired for anything. They don't have to have a reason, Florida is like that. Maryland, I'm not sure, but I know it is harder for them to fire people. They have to have documented reasons and warnings that were given, I believe. But no, we do not get any required time off. Federal law doesn't help us. They leave it up to the companies, and some states might give a half ass amount of care of what happens when it comes to losing your job. We don't even get paid maternity leave. You can get 12 weeks unpaid. Otherwise, it's up to the company you work for. Some states are starting to add mandatory pay for maternity leave. Europe has it much better when it comes to getting time off. In America, it's work til you drop as far as the government could care. Government just wants our tax money to pay for another war or some bullshit that doesn't help us. How dare we want universal health care, doesn't anyone care about the rich insurance companies 🙄 As for bonuses, it is company dependent. If they're giving a sign on bonus, expect to be overworked.

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CrispyJalepeno@reddit

Not how it works. Almost everything depends on states, and anything like that will often depend on the specific company rather than be codified into law No such thing as mandatory vacation. Holiday pay is usually 1.5x and only on the big holidays like Christmas. Weekend pay sure would be nice, but I've never even heard of it existing. You're more likely to see a $2-3 premium per hour for working overnights or "on-call" Different states definitely have different working laws. For example, some mandate paid maternity leave. Most don't.

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DirtyWriterDPP@reddit

There are essentially zero laws like that. I'm not aware of any states requiring any holidays or vacation. I think about the only thing you'll see consistently is overtime laws and those only apply to hourly workers. If you are salaried they can say "we need you to work 70 hours a week and be pretty much available at all times. ". And you don't get a dime extra. Now those jobs tend to pay more to begin with but it's because they are a lawyer or financial analyst on Wall Street or something.

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mr_jugz@reddit

i think the only thing federal law protects is minimum wage and overtime. holiday pay, weekend, etc are all decided by the job and position. i’ve worked in a bunch of different jobs and never had holiday or weekend pay

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Zaidswith@reddit

Rather, it's based on state law. Different pay rates in different states for the same companies.

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saimregliko@reddit

Federally, there is practically nothing. Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr, non-exempt hourly employees get overtime of 1.5x their hourly rate over 40 hours worked in a week(there are some people that may not get overtime like farm workers, salesmen, etc depending on position), you can apply for 12 weeks unpaid leave a year for medical reasons or the birth of a child(if you get sick and have a baby those 12 weeks are all you get to split between both events and if you are married and work for the same company the company can make you share the 12 weeks with your spouse).....and that's basically it. Federally, there is no law that says an employer has to pay holiday pay or weekend pay or give you vacation time. Every state is different, and some will have additional workers' protections and benefits, while some will have none.

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Lurkalope@reddit

There are no federal laws regarding vacation days, holiday pay, or weekend pay. Three states require employers to offer a minimum of 40 hours paid leave.There is only one state, Rhode Island, that mandates 1.5x pay on holidays. Many employers choose to offer extra pay on major holidays, less drama that way. I've never even heard of weekend pay increases.

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the_incredible_hawk@reddit

Oh, you sweet summer child. When it comes to worker benefits, much of federal law is about the minimum wage and overtime benefits for hourly employees. Some states have higher minimum wages. The kinds of benefits you are talking about are generally not provided for by federal law, however. Only some states have mandatory PTO laws, although they vary wildly. Some unions have negotiated such things for their members, and those employees who have written contracts--who are the significant minority--may have negotiated such benefits individually. Also, some employers may voluntarily provide such benefits and those benefits may in some circumstances become entitlements that can't be taken away without compensation. There are a few exceptions to these general principles (e.g. the Family and Medical Leave Act, FMLA, guarantees you up to twelve weeks of medical leave in a year, but it is unpaid.) As a general rule, though, there are no guarantees of sick or vacation time.

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cohrt@reddit

No such thing

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Avocadoavenger@reddit

Those are benefits, not bonuses.

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machagogo@reddit

> As in federal law The US is not a unitary state. There are many laws at the state level that are above and beyond the federal level, and there are many topics that the federal government has no authority over at all...

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anneofgraygardens@reddit

A bonus is extra money that isn't part of your usual pay. They aren't governed by the law. In California, overtime depends on whether or not you are salaried or have an hourly wage. If you're salaried, you get a set salary no matter how many hours you work. If you have an hourly wage, any work over 8 hours in a day needs to be compensated at time and a half. There are no mandatory vacation days/weekend days/etc. But I think at every company I've ever worked at, if you work on a holiday, you get time and a half. It's not required by law, but it is pretty standard. Again, that's only if you're paid by the hour, if you have an annual salary it doesn't matter how much you work, you're paid the same, regardless. What Americans call bonuses are payments outside of these terms. My company has a company-wide bonus scheme that to be honest, I do not understand at all. Sometimes we hit our goals and everyone gets a bonus payment. How much you get depends on ???? (at least this is what it looks like from my perspective). We hit some goal earlier this year and I got a bonus of $1500 in addition to my regular paycheck. Since i am totally ignorant of all this stuff, it was a very nice surprise for me!

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o93mink@reddit

Those aren’t bonuses. Those are just conditions of your employment. “Bonus” as used in America means additional pay that is tied to company or individual performance. For example, each July I get a bonus equal to about 25% of my base pay that gets adjusted up or down based on company performance, as well as a long-term incentive payment of another 25% or so, also tied to company performance. I also get a $1,000 bonus every January and an additional deposit to my retirement savings account equivalent to 6% of my base salary (in addition to whatever I put in, which is also matched up to 6% of my salary).

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TheMarshmallowFairy@reddit

Remember when Covid first happened and people who worked in healthcare were getting super high pay for working? Like double, triple pay. My work (I was a CNA, so certainly wasn’t expecting anything big but still, I was in the thick of it too) gave us… a single bag of trail mix. And not even an individually packaged bag, it was just a sandwich bag tied with cheap string (because they couldn’t even spring for ziplock bags). And it wasn’t even good trail mix with like good varieties and flavors, it was just peanuts and raisins and like 4 m&ms. And again, this was during the very beginning of Covid. We didn’t even know yet how it spread, we don’t know if it could be transmitted though food. So it went straight into the trash. My partner’s last job dangled the IDEA of bonuses in front of them, but they always made up some excuse why no one ever actually got one. “If you get 25 bookings this week, you’ll get a $50 bonus!” But then the last 4 hours of the eligibility period, they’d be like “ooooooh but it had to be done only for X type of bookings, not *any* booking.” Or “oooooh sorry, it was actually only the bookings made from 11:30am to 1:30 pm” (so when most people are taking their lunch breaks—and they don’t allow people to change their lunch breaks). His job before that, his “Christmas bonus” that the company hyped up so much… it was a 6 pack sampler of hot chocolates. And he got it after Christmas was over. That’s what it’s like working in America for most of us. I have never received an actual bonus. The paltry ones my partner has gotten are like $50-$100. But I’m sure the upper management is getting those nice bonuses that you see in movies, but in my experience, they aren’t something an average American gets.

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TheMarshmallowFairy@reddit

Oh and the jobs that do offer sign on bonuses: those tend to be jobs that they have a hard time staffing.sometimes it’s a shitty job, sometimes it’s just because they are offering to way underpay so they think you’ll do it for the bonus instead, sometimes it’s because they have high turnover because management and the work environment are toxic, etc; that way if someone realizes while they’re working that this job just isn’t worth it, they know someone will quit before they have to pay out the bonus. You are usually required to work 3-6 months before you get the bonus. They can also say “oooooh no sorry, you didn’t meet the fine print so you can’t get the bonus.”

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quixoft@reddit

Outside of the standard medical/dental I'm happy with these in my current gig Hybrid office/wfh 3:2 Unlimited vacation(i usually end up taking 6 to 8 weeks total) 20% yearly bonus 401K matching dollar for dollar up to 6% of salary Basic life insurance 2X salary HSA contribution matching

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GrtWhite77@reddit

No standard from nothing to I worked for a IT company that consulted if we hit our monthly goals we got 25% bonus

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CabinetSpider21@reddit

It really depends so I'm an engineer who works for the utility company. Last year my bonus was 9 grand after taxes, my salary is 140 a year. The year before that it was maybe a grand. Just depends how the company does and individual performance

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Nofanta@reddit

It’s an employers market right now so as few as possible often none.

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Scootdog54@reddit

As a teacher-zip, zero, and nada!

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Userdub9022@reddit

Things I know my company gives out for my role... Sign on bonus depending on experience, relocation assistance, 20% in bonus paid out at 5% a quarter (company performance dependent), a work truck that I can drive as much as I want, fitness reimbursement, 401k match up to I think 9% but they automatically do 5% if you don't put anything into it, "unlimited" vacation (I've taken 4.5 weeks this year), tuition reimbursement if you go back to get your masters/PhD, affordable healthcare (Europe doesn't have to worry about that), clothes for work (company branded but also safety gear, when traveling we don't have per diem just don't over do it, we get to use our travel accounts when traveling for points, and free gas for the work truck. There's probably more that I'm missing.

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Foresakeandbake@reddit

Nurses often get sign on bonuses. The most I’ve heard about was 30k half at hire other half at 2 years. But I always figure if a hospital has to pay me 30k to get me in the door there’s a reason they need staff lol

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LakashY@reddit

Depends entirely on the job. I once had a job that somehow gave me around $800 for a bonus and it was the only year they gave one. Since then, bonuses have been $50 gift cards of our limited choosing (I always choose a grocery store if they offer it). And even those aren’t a “given”. Some years yes, some no.

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Hikeback@reddit

I do medical billing, I get a percentage of collections for the office. I don’t get paid any salary.

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Icy_Refuse3028@reddit

i have literally never received a bonus

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Normal_Occasion_8280@reddit

OT, holiday pay and differential shift pay are not bonuses.

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c4ctus@reddit

...what's a bonus?

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firefannie@reddit

In 20 years of pro working professional jobs for a gigantic corporation, a small local corporation, and the University of Chicago I received the following bonuses: $100 AmEx gift card my 1st year working, it was at the gigantic global corporation and was in lieu of the annual bonuses they used to get. They stopped doing bonuses so they gave everyone a 1 time gift card. $100 for employee of the year twice $2k retention bonus for not taking another job offer $500 employee award for being a Keystone employee In summary, those are pretty pathetic bonuses. On the other hand I have 3 friends who receive annual bonuses they are more than my annual salary. So from my anecdotal experience, people who make more than $300k + per year may get bonuses of $100k + per year. But people who make under $115k per year don't tend to get bonuses.

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GreeenCircles@reddit

I work at a university, I could take classes there for free if I wanted. I also have access to their recreational facilities.

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narcissistical_@reddit

If my company meets some ridiculous, unrealistic revenue goal (which i don’t even have any real control over at all bc im not in sales or marketing), I get a bonus of the equivalent of 10% of my salary. That would be $6500. We’ve never achieved that goal so we get a percent of that instead and I usually pull in a yearly bonus of ~$1000

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Icey-Emotion@reddit

It varies. We knew someone that worked for a smaller company in a physically demanding job. Well, the person we knew got hurt really bad at home. The company paid him for the whole duration of the hospital stay and at home recovery. He did do some paperwork stuff after several weeks and light duty stuff when he was able to go in. At most he put in part time (like 20) hours during this time. Then he was a foreman on some jobs so he didn't have to do the heavy work. The whole recovery was 6-8 months. This guy is so grateful that he said he will never leave the company. My friends sister suffered a medical emergency. They flew my friend in, paid for a rental car and hotel so she could see her sister. The company then paid for the sister and employee to fly to the sisters home (the sister needed someone to a company her because of the medical issue). My friend was home for like two weeks. They gave her a daily stipend that was crazy generous. Then they flew her back home. To the other coast. (The plane tickets were not coach either. I think business class for my friend. Except when she accompanied her sister. They both got first class.) Companies can be super generous. But sometimes only in an emergency.

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Spare-Anxiety-547@reddit

I work at a University. We get free tuition for our first bachelor's degree and 75% off tuition for any subsequent classes we wish to take or degree we wish to pursue.

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MWSin@reddit

We got pizza parties a couple times a year, because apparently they thought we were nine years old.

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Irritable_Curmudgeon@reddit

These vary greatly. Like EXTREME-variance greatly. If you mean monetary bonuses, some companies offer annual incentive/bonuses. Some offer up to 20% (or more) of salary. Some much less. Some jobs may have them contractually required as part of the compensation structure. >I remember Google paying for a deceased employee's partner/kids for multiple years This is highly unusual. In many states, even something like paid sick time is not mandatory and not required to be offered to employees. Most employees contribute significantly to their healthcare plans. Most companies do not offer a pension; instead, they have a 401k retirement plan that employees contribute a portion of their paycheck -- many employers match a small portion of employee contributions (e.g., up to 5 or 6%). Vacation time is typically much less in the US, as companies may not be required to offer a minimum amount of PTO. Similarly, parental leave (and other forms of medical leave) may be much shorter -- especially the 'paid' portions of the leave. Again, it varies significantly by company and by state.

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eejm@reddit

I currently work at the headquarters of a national retailer. I get a 30% discount at our stores about once a quarter (a single trip). It’s a good way to stock up on basics. I also get a small annual bonus based on company performance. My husband works at the headquarters of a national restaurant chain. He gets 35% off meals or something like that. (We don’t go often, the food is only okay.). He gets an annual bonus based on company performance as well. I worked for a small Midwestern university for a few years and was able to complete my master’s degree essentially for free. I only had to pay taxes on the amount of tuition.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

30% discount in a single trip? I feel like when I worked for crocs as a contractor, they definitely treated us better than that. That's ridiculous. I literally just made salads in the lunchroom but I got super cheap like $1 Crocs. My kids didn't need shoes for a few years after I quit that job

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eejm@reddit

It’s actually a big savings if you buy everything you need until the next discount weekend.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

I guess depending on the product.. I'm not thinking of the right thing... cars? Heck yeah lol

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Weightmonster@reddit

A 5-6% match is generous. Most I’ve had is 3%

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

I once worked for an Employee Owned company and they had 7% matching. But then something happened and they went public and the matching dropped to 5%. Last I heard (I lfet years ago) they were down to 3% 401k matching.

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OHFTP@reddit

Did this happen to be a CRO?

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

I don't know what a CRO is. This was a small tech support company. A larger company would call us in for a specific job (upgrading all the ancient b/w one piece Macs to Win 3.11 systems, for exp.). We might have a contract for 6 months to a year. I left after a couple years of watching our benefits and pay raises go down while the new management team got huge bonuses.

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chickenfightyourmom@reddit

I work for a state government. We contribute 5% of our salary, the state contributes 8%. We also have elective contributions with no match.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

Nice! My state got rid of it's super computer so no chance of a job there, for me.

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LemurCat04@reddit

Current employer matches 6%, one place aim interviewing matches 6, the one matches 8%.

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ennuiui@reddit

My company matches half of my first 6%, so 3% as well. I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone provide better. A buddy of mine flies for a major commercial airline. They contribute 17% regardless of whether or not he contributes.

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Weightmonster@reddit

I guess because they need to retire earlier?

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ennuiui@reddit

I think it's mainly the result of strong unions. Commercial pilots have a mandatory retirement age of 65, which isn't all that early, but definitely a contributing factor.

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velociraptorfarmer@reddit

I'm getting 4% match + 4% automatic ESOP contribution right now. Plus 5% annual bonus.

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Maronita2025@reddit

I don’t think 5-6% is very generous. All the companies I worked for would match up to 10% of your income if you put 10% of your income into a retirement plan.

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AcingSpades@reddit

10% is extremely uncommon. There's only a handful of companies in the US that offer a match that high.

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Maronita2025@reddit

Really? Every company I’ve worked for offered that!

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spintool1995@reddit

Are you in a union? Unions with defined contribution plans tend to negotiate very high matches.

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Maronita2025@reddit

Nope, never had a union job!

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Struggle_Usual@reddit

I have never worked somewhere with more than a 4% match in my entire multi-decade work life.

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BlackRockKitty@reddit

I have a 6% match at my company, but our salaries are pretty low

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MakalakaPeaka@reddit

Ours is. 8%.

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annang@reddit

6% is what government employees get.

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o93mink@reddit

Which government? Federal? State? Territorial? City? County?

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annang@reddit

Federal and two states I’ve worked for.

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o93mink@reddit

Federal is only 5%, unfortunately https://www.tsp.gov/making-contributions/contribution-types/

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CaptainPunisher@reddit

I'm a county employee and we get a 6% bonus on our pay. So, my rate is $1000/week but now I get paid $1060/week. If I put that into our 457 plan (like IRA) the county will match my contribution up to 6% of my pay rate. So now I get my 1000, the 60 bonus, and 60 matched bc I put that whole bonus into my 457; it's basically a free 12% into my retirement, though I could just take the 1060 cash with whatever get removed for taxes.

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xaxiomatikx@reddit

My current employer matches 5%. My previous employer didn’t match. My employer before that matched 4%.

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prosocialbehavior@reddit

I have a 10% match working for a university

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semisubterranean@reddit

My employer matches 3.5% at 2x ... In other words, if I put in 3.5%, they add in 7%.

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schokobonbons@reddit

I have 3% now, i used to have 1.5% and didn't stay long enough to vest

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ButtholeSurfur@reddit

Lol y'all got a 401k? 🥴

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Irritable_Curmudgeon@reddit

Thanks. Further underscoring the differences... I've never had less than 6.

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outlawsix@reddit

"I remember Google paying for a deceased employee's partner/kids for multiple years" Likely just refers to life insurance. Through my work, my company pays for term life of x times my annual salary, with an option to bump it up for a few dollars a month. There is a separate accidental death/disability if something happens while on the job. If i died today my wife would end up with around 1.4 million payout, and if i died at work it would end up around 2 mil. Of course its canceled if i go to another employer

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notapunk@reddit

Yeah, I'm reading some of these posts and am kinda floored by how good they have it. A LOT of jobs here have absolutely fuck all for benefits.

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bearsnchairs@reddit

It isn’t that unusual to offer extra salary equivalent group life insurance with options to buy more.

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cydonia8388@reddit

My current job I can get a bonus of 10% of my salary. A previous job I could get up to 20%. Other perks…a free life insurance polic is very common. Some places give you discounts on their products.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

Little Caesars, our bonus was we were allowed to take home any left over orders that customers didn't pick up, after closing. Had to work night shift though.

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binarycow@reddit

Unethical life pro tip: use a pseudonym to call in an order for what you want for dinner that night.

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Bot_Marvin@reddit

And that’s why some companies now make people throw away leftover food.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

Yeah. A lack of integrity on the owner's part. If you do not feed your employees, they will steal from you. 30 years of experience in this industry has taught me that.

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Bot_Marvin@reddit

Feeding someone is no guarantee they won’t steal. White collar crime would hardly be a thing if that was the case.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

... I mean in food. I'm sorry that wasn't clear. This is strictly a restaurant industry thing. Denying people access to food they make all day, will increase employee food "theft".

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Away-Living5278@reddit

Yeah but little Caesars should just give them a free pizza every shift. They charge like $5, so what's the cost, $3?

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MamaPajamaMama@reddit

They get free food when they work a shift. When not working they got a discount.

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Ok_Huckleberry1027@reddit

A large pepperoni is like 10 bucks now. I got one the other night and was shocked. Its been a long time I guess Better pizza than I remember too tbh

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badtux99@reddit

I like their sauce and cheese. The crust is mediocre and they don’t put enough pepperoni on the regular pizza but you can get the extra pepperoni one for more. But for the price. Well.

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jmat83@reddit

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

for all the people wondering why companies make you throw away leftover food - this right here

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StarsLikeLittleFish@reddit

30 years ago the kids at the Little Caesars near me got a free pizza with every shift. I worked at the Subway next door and we got a free 6" sandwich with every shift. Sometimes we would trade if they got sick of pizza.

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ur_nam_hier@reddit

I hate to break it to you, but that's pretty much every pizza place.

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Kentuckyfriedmemes66@reddit

Also most Fast Food places in general let night shift employees eat leftover food for free unless you got the one that forces you to throw all of it in the trash

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Maronita2025@reddit

Worked for a health insurance company and by law can’t give free health insurance. Just by chance once a month every worker received a bonus that just happened to equal the cost of health insurance. lol

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chickenfightyourmom@reddit

My dad was a union railroad welder his whole life, and we got 100% paid, first dollar health coverage. Yes, every employee and family had zero premium, first dollar coverage. Idk if it was a union deal or a RR thing. My dad grew up in the projects, and that job allowed him to enter the middle class, support a family, own a home, and retire comfortably.

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

My grandpa worked for Burlington Northern and apparently it was really great. He was kind of a terrible person though and made sure to sell the house and spend down everything until they had nothing and in the end what they had covered medical bills and left the family nothing.

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Maronita2025@reddit

NOT the same thing as a health insurer giving free health insurance. For them to do that is illegal.

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iapetus3141@reddit

I don't think this is the case everywhere. There are tech companies with $0 employee premiums

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Karen125@reddit

My premium is $50 a month, the company puts $50 into my health savings account. Effectively $0. I work for a bank.

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ComeSeptember@reddit

Not the same thing. In that case, the company is paying the insurance carrier to gain entry into the risk pool and just not making the employees pay anything in cost sharing. It's still a third party (i.e. not the insurance carrier) paying the premium. The insurance carrier giving employees free access to the coverage they provide is entirely different. The equivalent to your example would be if the insurance carrier purchased insurance from an entirely different insurance carrier and didn't implement any employee cost sharing on the premium. That would be doable but completely absurd - no company ever wants to throw money at a direct competitor.

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cydonia8388@reddit

That’s a law? It’s not something in ERISA, is it?

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

Likely a state level insurance law. And it makes sense, because insurance pools are risk pools - if they give access to the pool for free, they are inherently disadvantaging the other members of the risk pool. It's not the same as just giving away another type of product of service for free. You're basically giving your employees your customer's property, in a way.

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MakalakaPeaka@reddit

Nothing about the American healthcare system makes sense, unless you’re a health insurance executive.

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LabOwn9800@reddit

If we are being really pedantic can’t you make that same argument for any company giving anything to their employees? How is a pool of insurance different than a pizza shop giving employees free pizza. The free pizza cost the company money in which they have to raise prices to accommodate. Then all their customers have to pay more to accommodate the pizza shops employees.

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McFuzzen@reddit

I see that you have a law degree from the University of Pizza, so perhaps you will know this. Why did the company not just divert payroll funds as an automatic distribution to the insurance premiums? I think this sort of thing happens in many companies where employees might use the company's services, right? Like what if car manufacturers gave their employees a car every five years. I doubt they would just say "yeah go grab one off the assembly line when you have a chance". They would probably have to order it and route funds to the sale from their "employee benefit" funds.

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

I don't practice insurance law, so I'm not 100% sure. I practice securities law though, which can be equally persnickety and ultra regulated. If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say that there's a rule *designed* to stop insurance companies from giving free access to the risk pool, but it's phrased in such a way that it prohibits payroll deductions as well. There's all sorts of stuff like that in ultra regulated spaces - accidental collateral legal damage.

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cydonia8388@reddit

This kinda makes sense to me, I worked in life insurance for years. If they do not charge for insurance, there is no risk transfer, therefore, it’s not insurance (under the law). For insurance to be insurance, there has to be a transfer of risk.

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McFuzzen@reddit

I understand laws can try to cover loopholes that corporate bean counters will find, but I as a mere mortal would never, but how is a bonus covering the fees any different? Or is that what you mean when you emphasized *designed*, that the intend was to avoid free access to the pool and for some reason the letter of the law means no payroll deductions?

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Red_Beard_Rising@reddit

Most likely to avoid conflict of interest. The employees will undoubtedly only have access to plans of their employer rather than the employer seeking the best value for their employees across all viable vendors..

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NightGod@reddit

The answer is a lot simpler than people are thinking it is: monopoly laws. You can't *force* your employees to use the service you offer. You can incentivize them, certainly, but you can't make it a requirement. My mom worked for Bell Telephone when they had the AT&T break-up in the 80s and they had to switch from having their phone bill just being $0.00 every month to getting a pay stipend that matched the cost of a basic plan, because the courts said employees needed to have the freedom to choose their carrier

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Lothar_Ecklord@reddit

ERISA deals more with fiduciary responsibility as it relates to retirement accounts managed by wealth management firms. People were getting a little loose with some pensions and fucked over a LOT of people.

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cydonia8388@reddit

ERISA also involves other employee benefits too, including health and life insurance programs. It’s a law that if you become an expert in, you’ll always have a job, but be bored out of your mind.

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Maronita2025@reddit

Nope it’s a law!

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CG20370417@reddit

Surely the company can offer life insurance to their employees, at no cost to the employee. The company just pays market rate for the policies with the insurer, no?

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TheDude-Esquire@reddit

Last job had ten percent. Current is no bonus, but higher base and more perks, better 401k match, life insurance, pet insurance discount, etc.

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Crayshack@reddit

Depends on the job. Bonuses I've gotten in various jobs include: 1. Double pay for holidays 2. Double pay for snow days (I volunteered for snow removal at the office) 3. Per diem for travel or directly expensing meals (I prefer the former because it's easy to come in under and pocket the difference) 4. Mileage reimbursement 5. Gym membership 6. 401(k) matching 8. The company pays for hotels/airfare but I get the loyalty points 9. 20% off hiring the company as a client 10. Profit sharing 11. Stock options 12. The company paying for me advancing my certifications and CEUs 13. Friday is an "admin day" where all I do is fill out my expense report and make sure my timesheet is up to date

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anschauung@reddit

#4 is actually a legal requirement in most states. :-) Great company though!

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Crayshack@reddit

Unfortunately, this wasn't all from one company but a mix of different jobs. Mostly two different jobs that had a bit of a different approach to things (for-profit vs non-profit), so the way they took care of their people was different. Both jobs did see taking care of their people as very important (the for-profit one was 100% employee-owned, so it functioned like being owned by a union), but it was different approaches. The for-profit was more about finding ways to throw money at their employees while expecting employees to put up with a lot of stress, while the non-profit is (I work there now) more about going "sorry, we don't have much money" but finding ways to reduce how stressful our lives were. I take home way less money at the non-profit than I did at the for-profit, but I make enough to be stable and my stress levels are way lower. For example, the non-profit pays the mileage reimbursement, while the for-profit gave me a company vehicle. I prefer getting the reimbursement since I come out ahead and it's my personal vehicle to do whatever I want with. Also, I'd be on some projects where I was working with other companies, and some of them would do their best to weasel out of things like mileage reimbursement. Things like declaring a construction site their work location so they were expected to commute to the site on their own, rather than commuting to a central office and picking up a company vehicle, or taking said company vehicle home.

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marko719@reddit

Those are benefits, not bonuses.

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Crayshack@reddit

OP's list of examples includes some things I think of as benefits, so I figured they were more interested in hearing about "non-base pay compensation" in general instead of quibbling over the specific terms for different categories.

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ice_princess_16@reddit

Most of these are benefits, not bonuses. Benefits you get as part of the job, without having to do anything extra and without the company deciding quarterly or annual (or whatever) that you should get it. Bonuses are extra money and not guaranteed.

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Crayshack@reddit

OP's examples listed some things that I think of as benefits rather than bonuses, so I figured I'd list everything rather than squabble over the distinction between the two. Not everyone seems to agree on exactly where the line is, and the difference doesn't really matter when it's all ultimately "a thing besides base pay that your employer gives you."

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW@reddit (OP)

Sounds very nice

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Crayshack@reddit

Not all of this was from the same job, but in general, if you develop a specialized skill set, companies will fall over themselves to offer you things to come on board and stick around.

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o93mink@reddit

Pretty standard for any white collar job

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OrneTTeSax@reddit

I get a yearly bonus that is usually like three weeks pay or so. We also get company stock each year for profit sharing, which I immediately sell and put into an index fund.

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rainbowsparkplug@reddit

I got a bonus for getting us a new employee. I found them on Reddit so I joke that I found got paid $2k to be on Reddit.

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offbrandcheerio@reddit

Some jobs offer bonus pay at the end of the year. The amount is usually dependent on how well the company did that year and/or how generous/greedy the C Suite is feeling that year. Many jobs offer no bonuses at all.

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Moist_Session@reddit

The bonus is you get to come back for more bullshit tomorrow.

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JD_Awww_Yeah@reddit

More money, less protections. That’s the general consensus I have read.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

yep. a million ways to say the US system works much better if you are middle class and above, worse if you are poor

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BionicGimpster@reddit

This varies a lot by industry. Most state laws mandate extra pay (1.5 / 2X hourly rate) for overtime (for some states over 8 hrs in a single day is overtime, other states it's over 40 hrs in a week) and holidays is again typically extra pay but also varies by state. Bonuses are not mandated by any state (at least at the time I retired 15 years ago). Bonuses are something individual companies will pay to recruits (sign on bonus), Relocate (lump sum or cover up to 100% of relocation costs), retain (in competitive markets or industry you may see retention bonuses to keep people from interviewing elsewhere) and performance based. Any or all of which can be negotiated between the company and the employee. Many companies also grant employee stock shares, or options to buy stock at a set price. In tight labor markets with low unemployment, any or all of these may be common. It's also common in certain industries. When unemployment rates means more employees may be looking for work - fewer bonuses may be offered. Before I retired, I had risen through the ranks. My salary was fixed, but I was had a bonus based on my regions' performance - Europe, Asia or North America. As I climbed above region level, my bonus was based on the corporation's performance. My bonus plan offered a bonus between 0 and 200% or my salary. For example - if I made 100k, I could get no bonus, or up to 200k depending on preset budget targets. But there was always wording in the bonus plan that allowed the company to change the plan. So - when I led the Asia business- we crushed our budget plans, but Europe, North America and Total company did not hit plans. As a result, I got significantly less than a maximum bonus. Some bonuses were given - just to retain employees. The key in all of this is having a clear plan, and communicating progress vs plan regularly so no one is surprised by the size or lack of a bonus.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

when you crush it, and yet the company is getting crushed, that has got to feel brutal

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Aggravating_Fishy_98@reddit

Sometimes they put food past the sell-by date in the break room and pass it off as a gesture of appreciation for the associates. Another perk is that they used to have a 15% off coupon for us to use at the holidays that we could use with our 10% off discount card so we could have a one-time 25% off “holiday shopping experience”. They got rid of that this year and now we can use our discount card on food items…

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My-Cooch-Jiggles@reddit

It really depends on the kind of job. Like sales jobs are big on bonuses if you hit certain targets. But tons of jobs have little to no bonuses, regardless of performance. Personally, I'd rather have the Euro system. At will employment can be really stressful and keep you up at night, especially when your healthcare coverage is tied to your job. And getting 1.5x for Sat and 2x for Sun sounds amazing. I'd volunteer for every weekend. We get extra working holidays (I think 2x), but nothing for weekends. And most salaried jobs are exempt from overtime pay laws and the companies almost always pressure you to work like 50-60 hrs per week rather than the 40 you technically are supposed to be doing. They essentially get a few days out of you for free. But then they have the nerve to talk about shit like "employee time theft" where you're doing stuff like spending way too much in the bathroom or chatting with coworkers rather than doing your job. America is a whore for big business. Just look at the fact that it's accepted companies can fire you at the drop of a hat, but you the employee are expected to give the company two weeks notice. Losing a job is way more brutal than losing a single employee, especially a big company.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

I very much prefer the American system, as do all the Euros I know over here. But health insurance should not be tied to employment in the US. We should fix that.

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AllPeopleAreStupid@reddit

I've gotten a bonus only a ahdnful of times. Its mostly just a pizza party for most americans. I've had a $300 bonus, a $200 bonus, a $20 bonus, a $5,000 bonus. All from different jobs. The 5g one surprised me, then they laid me off a month later, lol. That's 25 years of working, yey America.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

per stats here which make sense 48% of americans get a bonus. You don't see those of us who do whining about it though.... selection bias

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pizza_toast103@reddit

In big tech (not that it doesn’t happen with other industries), compensation is usually just more than base salary. For example, I signed a job offer recently for when I graduate college that will be about 145k in base salary, but in the first year will get about 130k more total between (private) stock, sign on bonuses, and quarterly performance bonuses. This becomes even more exaggerated at the higher levels, where salary becomes a smaller and smaller part of your compensation. A senior engineer at my company would only be making about 1.5x as much as my entry level role in salary, but they might be pulling in 400k per year in company stock

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

same in lots of high income industries as you mentioned.

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Head-Aside7893@reddit

Yea same in finance. Your boss 3 levels above you might only be getting paid 50k more in base salary. But $800k more than you in bonus lol

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AlfredoAllenPoe@reddit

I get a bonus directly tied to company profits. Between 2023 and 2024, profits declined 15%, so my bonus went down 15%. Just heard this morning that bonuses are going up as profits are up, but they are still waiting for the final number to tell us what the bonus will be. I get eye, dental, and health insurance through my employer. They are honestly all great and cheap by American standards. They are abnormal and much better than all of my friends' and family's plans. My dental and eye are $11/paycheck while my health insurance is $45/paycheck. I get paid every other week, so 26 paychecks a year. They also give me a $200K life insurance policy and $200K accidental death & disability policy for free. Those are standard for all employees at no cost to the employee. 401K with matching up to 6%, so I am getting 12% of my pre-tax income towards a retirement fund every paycheck. I have 26 PTO days per year with 10 paid holidays as well. Corporate finance job.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

a lot of us get great benefits, but we rarely come to reddit to complain about them. Massive selection bias for the complaints.

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Deskydesk@reddit

Most people get no bonus. It's a rarity except for very senior positions in some fields (and sales). Generally speaking, in American the high end of the pay scale goes VERY high but it's a small number of people.

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW@reddit (OP)

So those working entry-level jobs like a cashier position in retail/fast food are likely to not get any bonuses? The wealthy and big companies can afford to pay for the skilled and loyal employees?

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mr_jugz@reddit

it would be pretty much unheard of for those jobs to get bonuses

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

not unheard of, but rare. Places like Publix and Costco

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

yes, roughly correct. Bonuses are often roughly tied to company profitability and personal profitability - so someone who makes the company a lot of money will get a big bonus For retail, much worse, though companies like Costco and Publix can give bonuses I believe

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cohrt@reddit

Even higher paying jobs don’t get bonuses. It’s pretty rare to get a Christmas or year end bonus.

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forgotwhatisaid2you@reddit

Yes, low level employees get zero to a pack of candy, pizza, 20 bucks. Higher level workers can get huge bonuses. Some companies do better than others but it is mostly consistent that the more money you make the better the bonus. I have been getting $1000 the last few years but they can decide to do nothing this year. Totally up to them unless you have a signed agreement that stipulates a bonus and only people making good money are going to have that in an agreement.

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Dr_Watson349@reddit

In my industry (insurance) bonuses are extremely common. Even the entry level analyst will get anywhere from 0 to 20% bonus based on the company financials.

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Deskydesk@reddit

so I guess it depends on the industry. I'm in advertising and it's very very rare.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

ask the account executives - they are going to be heavily bonused, like any salespeople.

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beyondplutola@reddit

It's rate at ad agencies. Your client contacts are likely collecting bonuses and RSUs.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

see below, half the country gets a bonus. I literally know no one who does not get a bonus. Ties your income to company income

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

Bonuses are very common in IT and tech in general.

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IndependentMemory215@reddit

It’s varies greatly by industry. In construction, nearly every project manager will get a bonus if they meet certain goals. In retail, bonus are nearly non existent. In all, about 48% of private workers are eligible for some type of bonus. https://www.bls.gov/ebs/factsheets/nonproduction-bonuses.htm

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TrixieLurker@reddit

> In construction, nearly every project manager will get a bonus if they meet certain goals. They do that by making the workers do more for the same or less.

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IndependentMemory215@reddit

Not really. You can only make someone install a toilet, or brick so fast before you hit a wall. New tech and practices can help. Which is why you know see large projects break ground while the design phase is still ongoing. Project Managers get bigger bonuses by getting more work. Either new projects, or extras added on to existing ones. Getting maintenance/service contracts is another. You understand that many superintendents, foremen and tradesmen get bonuses as well right? Many make more than their Project Managers due to OT as well.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Definitely varies by industry. In tech, I've literally only once worked for a profitable company that didn't have a bonus.

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Rommie557@reddit

I got a $200 Christmas bonus last year, and expect about the same this year.

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gunterrae@reddit

I work for a small (two attorney) lawfirm. We get a mid-four figures "year end" bonus in early to mid December every year, and a much smaller one in the summer.

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gravely_serious@reddit

Free cell phone and service. Company car. Fuel is paid for including personal use. Annual incentive bonus up to 25% of my salary. Our internal travel policy includes provisions for traveling with family. Anytime I go someplace interesting, I can take my wife and kids. Did a family vacation to New York City in conjunction with work travel this year, and that was a lot of fun. It doesn't make it free, but it significantly reduces costs when the hotel room is covered for a few days, all of my meals are covered, and my plane ticket is paid for. Any extra days in the hotel are at the company rate, and that reduces costs for the trip as well. The only downside is that I'm not on vacation with my wife and kids during the day for two or three days, but then I'm not using vacation time for those days either. The other "bonuses" are typical benefits any company I've worked for offers: a month of vacation/sick time, retirement plan match, annual HSA deposit, the greater portion of our health insurance premium paid, life insurance, legal plan, discounts with other companies, just normal stuff.

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ElijahNSRose@reddit

Depends on the job. I was at one where employees got a quarterly bonus based on the factory meeting a list of criteria. The criteria changed year to year and sometimes they paid out when we didn't meet the criteria so we all understood it was really a matter of if the company had money to spare.

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

bonuses are usually to tie employee pay to company profits. My wifes bonus is completely production based

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Louisianimal09@reddit

My husband got $75k for Christmas last year and a Breitling for his birthday this year. My dad worked offshore most of my life and for his 15 year they bought him a Chevy 2500. This was like 02/03. I think he also got a watch for his 10 year but I could be wrong

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DinahKarwrek@reddit

Oh my God. Lol I'm a Chef and this makes me feel crazy. I literally worked an 80-hour week and I will never, ever get anything close to that.. I can't even move I hurt so badly rn... Looks like I'm in the wrong industry

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

not a chef, but chefs are so underpaid in the US. we need to do better

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Omgkimwtf@reddit

Damn, your husband has me beat. The best Christmas bonus I've ever gotten was $50k before taxes

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Louisianimal09@reddit

Still a great haul though

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Omgkimwtf@reddit

Oh absolutely, I'm not complaining in the slightest.

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Irritable_Curmudgeon@reddit

Wow. Those are some impressive bonuses. Good lord.

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PossumJenkinsSoles@reddit

Very common for oil/gas industries, at least in Louisiana and Texas. Their bonuses make me dry heave.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

Yeah, found out a rural high school here has a great welding program. Kids were graduating with certs and going straight into good paying oil field jobs. Really pisses me off that back in the '80s, I wanted to go to vo-tec after high school and parents plus every teacher got me to got to college instead. What a waste.

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velociraptorfarmer@reddit

Yep. I went to college and don't regret it, but unless you're dead set on a career that requires a college degree to do, it's not worth it vs doing trades. My sister dropped out after a year and a half and is pretty well set up doing pharmacy tech roles now with all her debt paid off at only 21, and my cousin's husband went straight into plumbing and now runs his own commercial plumbing subcontracting outfit in his late 20s.

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Old_Promise2077@reddit

I'm in the tech side of the O&G and renewables space. I usually do $40k/year in bonuses...but this year has been a slow year

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Louisianimal09@reddit

One of those risk vs reward kinda industries

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madebysquirrels@reddit

I thought I was doing pretty well in life and there are people out there getting my annual salary as a Christmas bonus. Holy shit.

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Louisianimal09@reddit

You’re telling me… I get gift cards for Christmas

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madebysquirrels@reddit

... you live in his household though.

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Louisianimal09@reddit

I’m talking about from work

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madebysquirrels@reddit

I understood that. I'm talking about this notion that you're not doing that well in life when your husband is presumably bringing home six figures.

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Louisianimal09@reddit

What are you talking about? I’m a surgical pharmacist. I also bring home six figures. The post is about bonus’ from work. He gets insane perks because of what he does for a living and my office gave us a Christmas party and gift cards. Comparatively, what he gets vs what I get from work are radically different. I don’t know why you made a grand assumption that we’re not doing well when that was never even hinted at.

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madebysquirrels@reddit

Because I said "man I thought I was doing well" and your reaction was "I know, tell me about it"? Does that phrase mean something different in Louisiana? Here it means "yes I feel exactly the same way".

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Louisianimal09@reddit

Because the “I know tell me about it” was a response the “annual salary as a Christmas bonus” part. Regardless of what I make that’s still a huge sum of money

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Struggle_Usual@reddit

More than I get! Last year I got an email, year before that a T-shirt with a company logo, and for the decade before that I got a day off. Singular. It wasn't Christmas.

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CrispyJalepeno@reddit

My last job, I got an apple pie. Only Christmas "bonus" in 5 years of working there

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Valuable_Recording85@reddit

A lot more than my annual salary as a goddamn bonus. Holy shit.

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CuratorOfYourDreams@reddit

Bonuses are never mandatory. In my experience, it’s usually non-monetary like a pizza party, company swag, or getting to leave work early. If they do offer a monetary bonus, it’s usually around holidays like christmas or at the end of a major busy season if: 1. your type of work has one and 2. you’re salaried, because the bonuses are kind of designed to make up for the lack of overtime payment despite overtime work required. It’s also not uncommon for the company to deposit your bonus directly into your retirement account you have with the company instead of them giving it to you with your paycheck

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Charlesinrichmond@reddit

this is very dependent on job. For jobs with bonus components, they can go up to millions. A lot of high end jobs in the US have a base salary of say 200-500k, and the rest is bonus - tied to how much money the firm makes and they produced. On the other end of the spectrum my nephew is starting his first job as a software engineer, his pay is 130k or so and his bonus will be 30k or so. Bonuses are very common in the US in some form, to tie pay to company success

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littleblacklemon@reddit

I worked at a dentist office and we got free dental treatment up to $2000 each year. Which sounds great but we charge $3500 for a crown and aren't allowed to get/use dental insurance or go to other dentists

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CoachOpen1977@reddit

A frozen turkey the week of Thanksgiving.

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giddenboy@reddit

The majority of jobs in America do not offer bonuses anymore.

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jeff1074@reddit

By showing up at work every day I get the privilege to pay my bills on time.

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emerald_daffodil@reddit

It really depends on the company. The last company I worked for gave $2000 cash to everyone around Christmas as a bonus. My new job, if everyone on our team meets their metrics for the month, we get an extra $90 at the end of the next month. All the other jobs I had aside from working at a grocery store gave no bonuses. The grocery store gave everyone a turkey for Thanksgiving and a ham for Christmas. I don't consider holiday pay a bonus because I think that's the law, at least at most state levels. I could be wrong about that though.

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ThingFuture9079@reddit

I sometimes get a Christmas bonus.

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andrewrbat@reddit

My job pays 200% for overtime pickups. We get profit sharing bonuses each yr. My prior company paid a hire bonus of about 20k and a retention bonus after a few yrs to stay another 3 yrs for 30k.

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sanct111@reddit

Im due a 15% bonus today. Just kinda sitting around waiting for it to happen.

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Atomic_Priesthood@reddit

In medical device industry a 10-15% (of your base salary) is common, assuming certain metrics (like sales forecast) are met.

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CactusGambit@reddit

I’m middle mgmt in sales in the aerospace and defense industry. My bonus target is 20% of my base salary ($220k) paid once per year in March.

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LamentCuntfiguration@reddit

Pizza party but only like one slice.

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Tempest_in_a_TARDIS@reddit

My dad was an engineer, and his job gave him a new car every 2 years. He also got a new flat-screen TV every 5 years (for his 10th year with the company, and then his 15th year with the company, and so on). This was when flat-screen TVs were brand-new and were pretty expensive, so that was a considerable perk for our family! Another perk is that many companies will match your contributions to your 401(k) (retirement plan). My company will double-match my contributions up to 10% of my salary. So every paycheck I put 5% of my paycheck into my 401(k), and my company matches that with 10% which comes from them. So when I consider my annual salary, I'm really receiving an additional 10% each year. (Eg. if I make $70,000 a year, my company contributes $7,000 to my retirement fund, which will be growing and multiplying until I retire.) Another very good perk is for people who work in higher education. If you work at a university or private high school (which has expensive tuition, as opposed to public high school which is free), your kids can go to that school for free. There was an article a while ago about a man who worked as a janitor for a university, and all 5 of his kids got in and got their college educations for free. That's a big deal in the US because higher education costs are so high here.

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NightBronze195@reddit

Pizza parties when morale gets low.

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kurtplatinum@reddit

Health insurance if you're lucky

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BronSNTHM@reddit

As a teacher, sometimes bring you chocolates or $10 Amazon gift cards for Christmas.

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RedShirtDecoy@reddit

I've had two corporate jobs that gave yearly bonuses. Profit sharing type thing. The base formula was 5% of your salary times the performance multiplier. That multiplier ranged anytbing from 0% one year (no bonus at all), all the way up to 170% which was a great year. So for example... If you make $100k (for easy math) the base bonus would be $5k. If the multiplier was 50% you would get 2500, if the multiplier was 150% you would get 7500.

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DFrostedWangsAccount@reddit

Mostly the kind promised to you and never delivered due to some technicality.

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Efficient_Advice_380@reddit

I drive for a living, I get a $250 quarterly bonus, and $500 bi-annual safety bonus

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Apprehensive_Camel49@reddit

I have a salaried position which offers a base bonus of 20% each year (can be +/- 10% depending upon specific annual performance) along with annual equity grants.

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I_Licked_Your_Mom@reddit

Finance/energy, up to 40% of base salary depending on individual/company performance

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CB_Chuckles@reddit

Bonuses? 🤣

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SpeedLow3@reddit

Depends on where you work

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ColbysHairBrush_@reddit

Base bonus is 15% of salary, if we have a good year and hit goals this can 2x up to 30% of salary. Also, negotiated a $40k signing bonus with a 2 year vest. Sadly bonus pay is taxed at 35 or 40% and you get a chunk back at tax time

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rdubmu@reddit

Restaurant industry: 401k match, 3 weeks vacation, new car every 60k miles, free gas, insurance, maintenance. But I pay taxes on that so it’s not exactly free

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MentalTelephone5080@reddit

Before I started working a real career the bosses might give $100 as a bonus. It wasn't much but it helped. After college I worked for two different consulting firms and bonuses ranged from 5-10% of my annual salary. I'm now working for the government and we don't get bonuses.

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OmniKiry@reddit

My workplace doesn’t have bonuses. We receive morning speeches about how essential and great we all are in one week, with our jobs threatened because we’re lazy do-nothings the next. We also receive such inspirational phrases like “you don’t have to go to work; you GET to go to work” like it’s some kind of privilege to be employed there. … anyway, we do at least have a cost of living adjustment made annually that is negotiated by our union, but we have a weak union and usually the additional income is nullified by the increase in annual healthcare premiums. USA! USA! USA!

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ShakarikiGengoro@reddit

My profession is strictly against giving bonuses. "For equity"

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MattieShoes@reddit

It depends hugely on industry. In some industries like finance, your bonuses could be monetary and higher than your entire salary for the year. I know somebody who got a "retention bonus" of $150,000 assuming they stayed fora year, after the company got bought out. Sales usually has high monetary bonuses as well. In other industries and fields, none whatsoever. As a loose rule, everybody in Western Europe gets good perks. In the US, it depends entirely on how easy it'd be to replace you. At the high end, much higher salary and better perks, and at the low end, no perks whatsoever.

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willtag70@reddit

There's a huge amount of variation among jobs and companies in the US. Bonuses can range from zero to at least $10's of millions. I'd say most workers don't get much in the way of bonuses, but in some positions and industries it's quite common. A benefit I got from one company was a lifetime pension upon retirement. At another I got stock options which became quite valuable. At a third I was named the employee of the year and got a belt buckle. There's too much variation to offer much in the way of a summary.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

\[Looks at my 5 year, 10 year, 20 year plaques\] They each came with a $50 Olive Garden gift card, so I got that going for me. Which is nice.

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CrispyJalepeno@reddit

Imagine getting a belt buckle. My wife had a celebration in her honor for being number one in the state, had her name on the cake, and wasn't even invited to the party. Only the district-and-up managers went

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willtag70@reddit

Yep. That was early in my career after I'd worked many long weeks, and convinced me to never again sacrifice my life for a company. Fortunately better situations developed over the years.

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MostlyBrine@reddit

I used to work in a post sales service organization which offered two types of bonuses for the engineers: one was based on individual and local team performance - which made us very aware of slackers and also very willing to pick up and help each other when needed, and a second bonus tied to company overall performance. Both totaled 12% of anual salaries, so it was significant. The result (combined with a huge support from the company HQ) was that for four of the five years I have worked there, this was considered the number one post sales service organization in the world. The median length of service for engineers was 26 years. I was the second one to leave in five years, because I moved across the continent. The only other engineer left to go for graduate school after 22 years. I work now in aerospace and there are various bonuses paid for hiring, performance, retention, etc. these bonuses are mostly paid because aerospace is a very cyclical industry (projects vary in length from two to five years) and it is a relatively small community. If you spend enough time in aerospace industry you might be working with the same people in three or more companies, along the way. When a company launches a new project, usually they have to hire people fast. This is when the hiring and referral bonuses are paid. As always the deadlines are always too short, so overtime is encouraged and a performance bonus is added for on time deliveries. After the end of the project, essential people will get paid retention bonuses, to keep them from leaving for the next big opportunity from a competitor. I have seen engineers given raises and bonuses to match or beat offers from competitors. Specialized skills are an asset in engineering as well as in IT or Pharma.

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Rastus77@reddit

After 39 years you get to retire with 9 bulged discs.

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PhilArt_of_Andoria@reddit

I always see on social media around the holidays folks whinging that they don't get a Christmas bonus. However, I think this is some sort of myth that this happens (maybe it did 60 yrs ago). I don't know anyone that has ever gotten such a bonus. When I worked in retail we had chain wide competitions. The store with the highest sales volume in their district over the holidays got gift cards to their store, maybe $25 a person. That's the closest I ever got.

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ExtemporaneousLee@reddit

It all depends on the company. There are no laws, except basic labor laws, that the entire country follows as far as "bonuses".

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LettingHimLead@reddit

My husband gets a decent 5-figure bonus at Christmas each year. My work gives us an 11% ESOP contribution as a bonus

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GlobalTapeHead@reddit

Hourly employees tend to get no bonus to around $1000 a year (sometimes more). This is across several industries I have seen. I mean it can really be all over the place. My son got a $900 bonus years ago as a part timer at Home Depot because they had a good year. At my company an hourly based employee can get as much as $6000 in a good year. If you want big bonuses, you need to be salaried professional or management. Again that’s just industry specific to me. Senior engineers can get $15000 to $20000 in bonuses. Senior managers can get bonuses larger than their entire annual salary. Bonuses are a kind of discretionary profit sharing so they are never guaranteed. We budget about 10% of the profits to distribute out as bonuses.

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Okay_Periodt@reddit

I got a $100 target gift card from a nonprofit. HR later sent an email saying the value would be taxed.

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ericds1214@reddit

I work for a company with what feels like a pretty typical bonus structure, I had a sign on bonus of I think 10% of my starting salary ($7k or $8k at the time). At one point there was a random retention bonus of $1.5k during a period of high turnover. They offer referral bonuses around $1k. Our annual bonus ranges based on individual and company performance, it technically isn't guaranteed but it has always been between 7% and 15% of salary. On the other hand, I know people with no bonus structure at all. My dad also works for a company which is employee owned and he sees bonuses of over 100% of salary regularly. Obviously that's not common at all, but it just goes to show how much is possible.

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Krusty_Krab_Pussy@reddit

A lot of your quality of life is dependent on who you work for, and what state you're in. My local Public transit authority gives bus drivers up to a 5k sign on bonus, plus 60k base salary and great benefits.

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No-Alternative-1321@reddit

I work as an x-ray tech, I got a $10k relocation assistance/sign on bonus since I was in a different state. Paid out over 1 year tho so in reality it didn’t help at all with moving lol since the first part didn’t arrive until my first paycheck two weeks in, but it all depends on the company, your position, your job field etc.

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Aluciel286@reddit

If you're real lucky, you get to pay your bills.

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Automatic-Arm-532@reddit

What are bonuses?

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BreakfastBeerz@reddit

There is no European law that mandates Sunday and holiday as double pay, time and half, night shifts, sick pay etc. What you say is not true. Those laws vary by country. Like Europe, different states have different laws, and there are some that have double time pay for holidays, and time and a half pay for over time and sick days just like you have. Beyond laws, many companies offer other voluntary compenstations. A couple of examples. For my wife's job, each year the company specifies a bonus and a target revenue. She gets a percentage of that bonus based directly on how the company does in reaching that target revenue. So if the bonus at the begnining of the year is $10,000 and the target revenue is $100,000,000 and at the end of the year the company records $90,000,000 in revenue, she gets a bonus of $9,000 In my job, I get stock options. At the beginning of the year, I get awarded the option to buy a certain number of shares at a specific price. Three years later, I have the option of buying that much stock at that fixed price. So if I'm awarded 100 shares of stock options at $100/share....in 3 years, if the stock has gone up to $200, I have the option to buy 100 shares at $100 a share. Usually, people then immediately sell the shares. So I buy them for $10,000 and sell them for $20,000 netting a $10,000 bonus.

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Swine70@reddit

Best one I was a machinist setup man. The shop did mostly high production work and had been running with the same group of guys for many years. During the interview we walked the shop and I learned a lot. When negotiating the hiring contract I put in a requirement that I receive a $1500 bonus for every setup I made that improved production times by 15 minutes per hour. My first week I received 5 of those bonuses and pissed off the entire shop floor. At the end of the year everyone got a $4000 bonus because of the changes I made that they stuck with. The following year I wrote a production manual and received a $10,000 bonus/compensation for that. 2 years later the owner died and his kids sold the entirety of the business to a company in Mexico and moved it down there

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EclecticEvergreen@reddit

I work in a grocery store. Christmas Eve we get to take perishable stuff that’ll go bad over the next day home (after putting it in the system). We also get employee coupons every week, $15 bakery coupon for our birthday, $15 coupon on our work anniversary, an anniversary lunch the chefs make for everyone in that month, and an employee appreciation lunch the chefs make every last weekend of every month. Also during Thanksgiving and Christmas we each get $50 in coupons for any purchase. So $100 for November and December. There’s also these “care team” events that happen 4 times a year that get set up. Usually involving food and a theme we can dress up for. The last one was beach themed, we got to wear those flower necklaces, have handmade “shark attack” lemonades, and freshly grilled burgers. The dude patio is always closed for employees only during these events. There’s also some online services we offer for employees like free therapy sessions, some babysitting or family assistance programs, scholarships, shadowing opportunities, places we can directly ask corporate questions, anonymous places we can talk to each other, medical assistance programs, etc. I also get health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, a 401k, and a retirement plan. Unfortunately my health insurance is changing so that it kinda sucks but my medicine is 90% covered so it only costs me like $4 everytime.

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ToxDocUSA@reddit

I'm in the military as a physician. I get a bonus for being board certified, a bonus for the specialty I'm certified in, and a bonus for agreeing to serve an additional several years after my initial obligations were completed. People joining under the same program I did now get $20,000 just for signing up, but that didn't start until a year or two after I joined. When I work on the civilian side, I generally don't get any sort of bonus. Some places will offer 1.5x or 2x hourly pay for holidays, or maybe an extra 10% for night shifts. Being an ER doc though, we expect to work nights / weekends / holidays, so that type of bonus isn't necessarily common.

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Fourty2KnightsofNi@reddit

My current job, my bonus is a discount. My last jobs (I worked 2 at once) 1 might give you a mug for Christmas, the other one there was no bonuses. I had one job where if you showed up you got paid and got to keep your job, they considered that a bonus.

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PhiloLibrarian@reddit

Bonus… bonus… nope haven’t gotten those… I work in education.

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Karen125@reddit

We have a profit sharing plan, 10% of profits are split between employees. My share has averaged $16k per year. The funny thing is they forgot to tell me this when they hired me, so this was a nice surprise.

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Electrical_Cut8610@reddit

I work in tech and the “bonuses” vary. One company used to have a 10% quarterly bonus if sales were good. My current company just randomly gave everyone a raise last quarter (3%). I’ve mostly always gotten a company match (5%) into my retirement account. I currently also get $50 from my company into a health savings account per paycheck which can be used to buy prescriptions and glasses/contacts or pay for medical costs, but it’s also a tax advantaged investment account for retirement as well. I have unlimited PTO. Some companies do large Christmas bonuses - I have a friend who gets between $60-80k as a bonus at Christmas (they work in the medical/pharmacy industry). Sometimes I’ve randomly gotten shipped nice swag like a backpack partnership with North Face and I have so many Yeti mugs of various sizes. Two states in the US also have 1.5x pay on Sundays and holidays - I’m actually shocked - I thought in was more. I’ve lived in both states though.

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LordLaz1985@reddit

In education, getting decent health insurance is your bonus.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

Pizza party

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troublesomefaux@reddit

These days are long gone but the company I work for paid for a lot of my bachelor’s degree. Then they converted to being employee owned and then they decided to sell out, and I got a check for 100k (almost twice my annual salary at the time). We also got 10 weeks of paid vacation after about a decade of unemployment. They started cutting back on benefits right before I got up to 10 weeks but it was an amazing run.

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Medium_Tomatillo2705@reddit

In NYC, major corporations also offer free entrance to employees(and their guests) to Museums like the Met, Moma, Guggenheim, Whitney, Frick, Amnh etc. This is because they donate to these Museums which are tax deductible and they can offer to employees as perks.

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LeetcodeForBreakfast@reddit

i work at mag 7 tech company and get 15-20% bonus yearly of my total salary split between stock and cash. nice perks: - company pays for my healthcare monthly premium, so i pay $0 per month for health insurance (rare in the US) - company gives me $1500 a year fund to buy anything related to fitness or personal health - employee shuttle picks me up near my house and takes me to work for free - i get an employee legal plan with access to a network of company lawyers for something like $20/mo - i get unlimited 401k matching of 50% so i get about $11k a year free funded into my 401k - if i want to adopt a kid i get $10,000 given to me by my company - if i die my wife gets $1M in life insurance and i become disabled long term disability payout is something like $10-12k a month which is nice, these cost me like $12/mo through my company - i get company sponsored pet insurance which is very cheap for my old old

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PossibilityOk782@reddit

I got $1500 for not quitting in 6 months, I get a quarter bonus of approximately $650 every 3 months. I do not have any idea what metrics are used in determining the bonus I just get it 4 times a year lol

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LHCThor@reddit

My old company is offering a $30,000 sign on bonus. When I was in the military, there were times they offered anywhere from $1500 to $50,000 as a re-enlistment bonus. Some jobs offer a company car as a bonus (or benefit). But overall, labor laws are not the same as Europe. Unless you work for the government or are in a Union, the perks are not that great and varied. There are some jobs that still don’t have sick or vacation time. Some perks are more connected to the type of work. In my last job, we got overtime (time and a half) after 8 hours and double time after 12 hours. But that was standard for the industry.

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Chance-Business@reddit

I've worked tons of jobs, my current one isn't the highest paying nor has the best benefits package, but they have a ton of benefits I have simply not seen anywhere else in offices I have worked. I get an hour's pay for commuting in to the office per day if I have to come in at an unreasonable time. If I work at night I get some large percentage extra. I've worked at night at plenty of jobs but get paid normally because the job was by default at night time. This is my first one that actually paid me extra for it on top of the normal salary. I get paid extra if I am alone in the office, iow if there is no boss I get paid extra because by default I am the boss. And of course I get paid extra percentage if I have to work through lunch. So my normal job I am a night shifter so I get all these by just going to work as normal which in my specific case amounts to about a 60% bonus. They want someone here at night so here I am.

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Nan_Mich@reddit

My husband was a senior data anylist and worked many places, usually as a contractor. No bonuses for contractors! When he was finally hired into a car manufacturer (after 10 years as a contractor there), he got modest discounts on their cars when purchased new, but large discounts on cars that were returned on company executive leases. He usually got a monetary bonus that ranged between a thousand dollars or so and several thousand dollars each year. Later, he worked for a bank. His bonuses there were much larger, once almost $20,000. He never received any signing bonuses or other perks. Maybe the use of a company gym before or after work. I was a social worker with a Masters degree. No bonuses. No perks. Usually, I worked as a contractor and got no benefits whatsoever. I had health care insurance in one job where I was an employee, but not the three other jobs I held. No retirement benefits and no income tax paid by the employer, either, in my contract jobs.

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PsychologicalBat1425@reddit

Sign up bonuses depends on your field, and where they want you to work. Some fields need employees but the pool of prospective employees is small. They offer a sign up bonus to encourage applicants. I've also seen offers to pay student loans. Then there are offers for jobs in places that are really remote, undesirable places to live. Performance bonuses are different. Those are offered by a company for going above and beyond.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

I worked at a chocolate factory where we could take home 2 of these clear bags of rejects a week. Definitely nice because those things were expensive (for reference, the main product i packaged I could box roughly 100 give or take a few in an hour, and it would take my 3 hours to buy 1 of those boxes)

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Ocean_Soapian@reddit

I get a yearly holiday bonus. A few thousand.

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12B88M@reddit

A performance bonus is directly tied to performance. For example, if a company has a sales goal of $100M and the team exceeds that goal by $10M, the team may get a bonus. Let's say the bonus is 1% of whatever was above the goal. Two managers get $10K each and the 16 people working under them each get $5K. This is an incentive to work hard and be productive that is paid in addition to any normal pay. Imagine making $80K/yr and getting $5K right around Christmas. That's almost an entire month's salary just because you were really good at your job. Or you might get a bonus for completing a job early. The company bids a job for $5M and that's based on 5 months of work for that 9 man crew. However, the manager finds a way to increase productivity and the job is done in just 4 months. So the job is done early and the crew can move onto the next job early. This increases the number of jobs that crew can do in a year, increasing overall profitability for the company. The labor savings also brought the job in $100K under the bus. So the boss rewards the manager with a $5K bonus and $2K for each member of the crew. Of course, we also have people that work on commission. A car salesman might get 25% of the profit from each car sold. so a $50K car has a profit of $10K and the salesman gets $2.5K. if he sells 4 cars per month that comes to $10K per month or $120K per year for him. But if he sells 5 cars per month that's $12.5K month or $150K per year. To add some extra incentive, the dealer might say the most cars sold for the quarter wins a trip for 2 to Cancun for a week. Basically, companies are free to do almost anything when it comes to compensation as long as the compensation is reported as taxable income and meets minimum federal and state guidelines.

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badtux99@reddit

No real bonuses. Very occasionally out of the blue I will get an unexpected bonus in my paycheck usually when we have delivered a big project to a customer. But it’s not something to count on.

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Sufficient_Fan3660@reddit

sales people get large bonuses based on sales, I'm not talking working on a shopping mall selling t-shirts, but selling large contracts, data, telecom, cars, executives C and S suite get large bonuses, it does not matter how good or bad the company is doing they still get massive bonuses budget bonuses are for lower management. If a manager needs 5 people in a department and each person makes 70k, then the manager will say they need 6 people to get more budget. Then the manger will run the department with 4 people by cutting corners and treating employees like crap. At the end of the year the manager looks good because their dept was under budget. Regular employees may get .5 to 2% of their yearly pay as a yearly bonus if lucky. Some companies, especially if you work in sales, can get 10 to 20% of their yearly salary as a bonus. It is common for a company to say they had a bad year, say there is no money for bonuses, and then pay their executives large bonuses. Large bonuses for average employees doing a good job, for company success, used to be a thing in in the 1950-1985 range.

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RemnantHelmet@reddit

Whatever they are (were?), they're disappearing. Once upon a time a college grad could get a standard desk job making enough money to have decent disposable income, solid health insurance, a stable pension you could depend on to be ready to support your retirement at 65, and the expectation of a 4-6% annual raise, a Christmas bonus, and maybe a performance bonus depending on the job. Now? Getting a desk job with a middle class income is like winning the lottery even if you're hideously overqualified. Pay is more akin to allowing you to just get by, company health insurance costs more and covers less, if they over any, pensions are all but extinct, raises only cover inflation, if that, and bonuses are mostly only for commissioned salesmen. If you use any paid time off, you'll probably spend it wondering if doing so made management think less of you whether or not it will contribute to you getting fired.

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No-Marsupial-7385@reddit

I get 14% of my salary as a bonus each year. The last few years we have gotten 150% of that.

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Dense_Amphibian_9595@reddit

Depends - U.S. Fair Labor forces hourly employees to receive mandatory time and a half pay for any hours over 40 and double time for hours more than 70. Salaried workers typically have to work until the work is done regardless of how many hours. But they can only abuse salaried workers for so long and then they’ll go to a better place of employment. Salaried employees usually earn more than hourly so it’s a trade-off. In the salaried workforce, a bonus of 10% of your annual pay is pretty standard if your company had a great year (if they don’t pay bonuses, again, people can leave and go somewhere else). Union workers get bonuses if their union won those at the negotiating table. Everyone seems to want profit sharing, but if your company loses money, those employees don’t want to give up any of their base pay.

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Surprised-elephant@reddit

I got $750 for lasting 90 days and another $750 on my one year anniversary. After that zero bonus. Been there now for 6.5 years

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flugualbinder@reddit

Completely depends on the type of job. A lot of corporate jobs will give an annual bonus or profit-sharing. Healthcare often has hiring bonuses because there is a constant shortage of healthcare workers. Retail may or may not get holiday pay. And food service usually gets nothing, not even a lunch break.

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NarrowTower@reddit

Of course the biggest/most obvious “benefits” will be various forms of health/dental care. But i assume my Non-American friends will already know this. So I will share a fairly common, and oftentimes looked down upon “Bonus” Cash straight up - (under the table) Company Truck -(better be there) insurance is paid by the boss, cuz he cant afford an investigation. No Weekends or Holidays - (boss likes his days off) And before you get it confused… im a 28 year, John Snow lookin, hard workin American who makes more than most of my college graduate friends. The Union is the goal, (who has even better benefits), but i cant meet their standard. Manual Labor is where its at in America. You just gotta want it.🤷‍♂️

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seaotterlover1@reddit

I work for the government and have never received a bonus or overtime pay- any extra hours worked have either turned to extra time off or I just don’t get any extra compensation. The last one applies to my current job and I don’t know if it’s an official policy or my previous boss was a stingy workaholic (most likely). I don’t have to travel anymore. We don’t get job perks either - no provided coffee, water, lunches, company parties, etc. I used to have a boss who would take us out for a Christmas lunch. My current department has a holiday luncheon that is a 9 hour round trip drive away and you pay for your own food and gas mileage. I almost went the first year but we got a snowstorm and I decided it wasn’t worth spending that much time and my own money to have lunch with people I literally never see or talk to.

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jazzofusion@reddit

Right employer, right job and can be fantastic..

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

I got a sign on bonus this year and 10-20% salary bonus at end of fiscal year

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standard-and-boars@reddit

You’re really mostly going to see those sorts of things in white collar jobs. I recall some top end (non-sales/commission-based) bonuses be around 50% of salary at places I’ve worked. 401k match at larger companies will be 3-8%, depending. There are laws regarding the maximum difference in benefit from retirement financial accounts between the highest and lowest paid employees, so that can be structured in different ways to remain compliant. I’ve seen signing bonuses all across the board, often a small token amount, e.g. for new grads or masters recruits, or a much larger amount to true up a new hire for forgoing their bonus at their old place. Variable comp like this is incredibly wide ranging, and it’s a significant lever to adjust offers for potential recruits. Benefits are usually more standardized, and obviously the typical number of holidays will be far less than you’d see in Europe.

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MundaneEjaculation@reddit

30% cash for salary. Also in a leadership role at a start up.

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trapezoid-@reddit

y'all are getting bonuses?

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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

No such law about Sunday and holidays being “double pay”. Not even 1.5x pay. There are some workers who are in unions which may have such deals but I worked in the airline industry for 40 years and no hourly employees got double pay. They got 1.5x pay only after exceeding 40 hours for the total week. If they work 12 hours on three days, then 4 hours another day, zero overtime pay. They could get 8 hours holiday pay if they worked the day before, the day of and the day after, as scheduled, for any major holiday. There were only about 8 per year. If they missed one of those three days they forego holiday pay. Oh and at Christmas they got a gift card for $15 to use at a grocery store. Can’t even buy a turkey for $15.

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HS_VA@reddit

At my company it depends on your title. Directors get 20% of the base salary and 20% employee stock based compensation (vested over 4 years). Sr. Directors get 25% of each, and goes up by 5% with each level up. So it’s very generous

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RedOceanofthewest@reddit

Depends. When I was an IC 20% of salary. As a VP I was eligible for 100% of salary.

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BlazinAzn38@reddit

If you’re salary there’s typically percent bonuses applied at set times(quarterly/yearly). If you’re in sales there’s almost always bonuses set there. There’s typically referral bonuses so if you refer a friend to apply and they get the job you’ll get a bonus if the new hire makes it past their trial period. Aside from bonuses we have benefits which are outside of cash pay like insurance, employee stock purchase, PTO, retirement, etc

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StumbleBee42@reddit

I’ve gotten gift cards, I’ve gotten $500 quarterly, I’ve gotten lump sum of like 2k at the end of the year at the discretion of the manager.

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RamenLoveEggs@reddit

As a nurse the only bonuses are often sign-on bonuses for 10-20k if I switched employers but have 1-2 year work commitments. They are also taxed pretty heavy and the job can sue you for the money back if you don’t work the full commitment.

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the-bc5@reddit

Signing bonuses are not standard but not uncommon in the corporate world. Sometimes there’s pay for physical moves as well. I got a signing bonus that I get in talents for two years. Annual bonus for performance is common particularly in leadership and executive roles.

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achaedia@reddit

I’m a teacher. Sometimes I get like a free pen or a $5 Starbucks gift card.

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mournthologist@reddit

Most Americans do not get bonuses. I've seen it happen a lot in movies and on television, and know a few people in roles where that's a thing, like sales and assholes in the c-Suite, and then performance metric based lower wage jobs.

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Tall-Measurement3795@reddit

My company does a shift premium of 10% starting at 5pm and ending 5am. 5pm Friday through 5am Monday is all 15%. As far as actual bonuses, they give 2k recruiting bonus, and beginning of December depending on how the company is doing everyone gets 1.5 to 3% of their annual pay as a bonus.

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Valuable_Recording85@reddit

In my current job, if I pick up a shift I can get it at 1.5 pay or more, depending on how badly it needs to be filled. I think the cap is 3x unless it's also overtime. I also get shift premiums and weekend premiums. And holiday pay is 1.5 pay. But there are no "Hey, we did great this year, here's your cut of the profits". Those bonuses only exist for people with their own offices and special letters next to their names. In my last job, there were no bonuses at all. Overtime pay was something that was withheld and people were instead given "flex time". Supposedly if I worked 41 hours one week, I could take an hour off the next week. That doesn't actually sit right with me because the goal of "no overtime" should be "NO OVERTIME". Luckily, my boss said if I worked 1 extra hour this week, I could take 2 extra hours whenever I wanted, so long as I logged my flex time in case there was some sort of time audit. So, along with a very good accrual rate for sick time and a separate bank of vacation time, I could accrue flex time to use whenever I wanted. In many instances, time is more valuable to me than money. Before that, I worked at a retail company that did monthly profit sharing until a year after they were bought by a bigger fish. They raised pay across the board, but I was making more when I was getting bonuses.

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itsgretchen@reddit

This is my 20th year of teaching public school in texas. Every May, the parent organization feeds us lunch on a random Friday. It used to be steak and baked potatoes. Now it’s burgers During Covid times, we got an extra $2k if we didn’t quit for two years I’m sometimes given a free box of pencils

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mbej@reddit

I’m a nurse. I got a sign-on bonus paid out over 2 years. We get 1.5x pay for anything over 40 hours in a week (Sun-Sat, if it’s over 40h for Fri-Mon you get your straight pay). Certain holidays we also get 1.5x pay- Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. $2/hr more for Saturdays and Sundays, $4/hr for nightshift, $2/hr for training a new grad. We don’t get a bonus for certifications, but they do pay us for training time and for the actual certification. Those hours are not figured into our overtime hours. For Christmas last year we got a generic miniature note and a plastic pickle smaller than a quarter. Sometimes we get lunch, usually pizza. More often we are given treats and food by patient’s families.

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chickenfightyourmom@reddit

The "free" things I get at my job are life insurance 1x my salary, sick pay x6 months, vacation pay x5 weeks, tuition reimbursement 5k per year, and 8% salary employer contribution toward retirement. They aren't really free, though, because they keep salaries criminally low. Plus, the health insurance is mid.

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inode71@reddit

In the 90s I worked at Motorola and they gave great bonuses. Some folks got a check large enough to buy a new car. In the early 2000s, I was in management at another place and got a 15% bonus one year. That was the largest I’ve ever had (because my salary was pretty high at the time. It’s all gone downhill from there for me in terms of bonus. I work in consulting now and they prefer to give us a higher salary because that they can bill back to the clients. But, I also get the impression from my friends that large bonuses are a thing of the past as health insurance costs have gone up for every company. Now the best bonus is a small insurance premium.

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SpecialistBet4656@reddit

In a lot of industries bonuses are a form of deferred compensation where the company can change the amount or cancel the payment altogether without liability. It's easier to get a larger bonus than a raise where I work because a raise is a commitment to continue to pay you more. A bonus is at their discretion.

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Susan_Thee_Duchess@reddit

Perks! Hahaha

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No_Toe_215@reddit

Agree with others. Depends on the job. Attorney (non partner) at biglaw firm and we can get bonuses of approximately $30k-$250k.

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petg16@reddit

I got a $25 GC a couple times 😭

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jtcut2020@reddit

Stock best bonuses. In Sales we have a lot more achievement bonuses besides commissions. Trips, watches.

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charcoal_kestrel@reddit

Many research university academics are on 9/12 contracts. That is, we get paid every month and are actually working every month, but in theory we aren't working in summer. This allows you to write a "summer ninth" into a grant, such that part of the grant goes towards what is effectively an 11% salary bonus. You can also sometimes get a ninth for doing major service work, like being department chair. And sometimes ninths are part of a startup package, which makes them kind of like a signing bonus. It gets tricky though as some academics, especially in life sciences, are on "soft money," meaning they have to pay their base salaries and not just bonuses out of grants.

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JenniferJuniper6@reddit

Signing bonus—for example, $50,000 cash after one year (obviously on top of regular salary). Stock options. RSU distribution based on the company’s performance, your department’s performance, and/or your personal performance.

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Shoshawi@reddit

In healthcare and academia I’ve never actually seen a bonus. Once someone I know got $1000-3000 (I forget) for highest publication impact of the year. It was a way of saying “sorry you’re still getting paid minimum wage but we appreciate you making us look good”.

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Far_Brilliant_443@reddit

Discounts on health insurance I pay for. Unpaid days if requested early enough. Free shirts!!!!!

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rmill127@reddit

My company is a discretionary profit sharing by the owners depending on how we do. Last year it was about 25% of my salary. Around 10-15% before that. My wife’s is the same but they have averaged 45-65% of salary over the last 4 years, with every year getting better. With the pain from tariffs this year, I expect somewhere around 55%

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Cantseetheline_Russ@reddit

Depends on the job/industry. I’m a pretty highly compensated executive in a very specialized job role. Mine is tied to performance and company profit and can vary widely. In a good year it can be well into the six digits easily. In a bad year significantly less, but still more than the median annual wage in the US. This is not the norm though. My three siblings/spouses don’t make anything near what I do and their bonuses are usually tiny. Like maybe a couple thousand dollars.

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Ms-Metal@reddit

It completely depends on the company and the position. If you work in a McDonald's kitchen, you're probably not getting any bonus and if you do it'll probably be 50 bucks. Or a half day off. If you work a regular profession, it varies greatly, from a couple Grand a year to I've worked jobs where I've gotten high five figures a year as a bonus. They were tied to how well are division did and our division always did very well. That's especially true if you work in a sales division, even if you don't do sales directly, you can make really nice bonuses. I also work to 100 job once which is essentially sales and made great bonuses and incentives there got several free trips, huge bonuses, actually got ourselves out of debt from that job. Then if you're in the upper echelons, in the c-suite level, bonuses are often hundreds of thousands to possibly millions of dollars. The range is just huge. Also a lot of companies give stock options as bonuses, both for C Suite employees who get massive options and for regular professional employees who don't typically get to huge amounts but can do really well if the company happens to be something like an apple or a Google. I've never made enough in stock options to retire on, but certainly enough to buy myself a new car.

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WatchLover26@reddit

Best I got in the corporate finance world was a 45% annual bonus. Right now I am at 15%.

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blueponies1@reddit

Depends HIGHLY on your industry and even company within it. I’m fairly early in my career, my bonus is about 15-20k. Further down the road that’ll be more like 50-75k. They get taxed to all hell though.

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Historical_Ad2890@reddit

I get about $9000 cash bonus and 100 shares of stock every spring. I also have around $600,000 in life insurance for only $4-5 per month

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NightGod@reddit

It really depends on the company. I've had jobs where the only benefit I got was my paycheck was always on-time and accurate and I've been at a place now for a decade that has pretty insane benefits for this day and age: discounted health insurance, $1000/yr HRA towards our admittedly too high deductible plan, but it helps a lot with basic medical needs and most basic surgery is completely free if you use their selected doctors (who have all been excellent in my experience), 4 wks PTO + 1 week sick time to start, +1 wk at 5 and 15 yrs, only in office about 1.5 days a month (and very flexible about it, can work anywhere in the US without questions), free dental (which is about as good as the paid plan we had before, but they all suck these days), bonus that's up and down some, but averages about 9% a year, amazing work/life balance (I work maybe 20 hours a year outside normal hours and get comp time without fuss) and, most fascinating of all: a pension. A real-live, fully-funded pension. Insanity

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Elle3247@reddit

I used to get a bonus of a percentage of my yearly salary. The percentage was based on how well the company did as a whole the most I got was about 20% of my salary. The new CEO decided that was wasteful and removed the program (and reduced many other benefits). As a job well done, he doubled his own bonus. I can’t wait to be done with school and get out of this job.

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Baymavision@reddit

Sometimes they don't try to steal from you by changing your timecard behind your back. Sometimes they even let you have time off without firing you for asking. Pretty sweet! /s

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geopimp1@reddit

I get a monthly bonus based on sales numbers. We average x per month. As long as as we hit our average I get a small bonus. Every x amount over that my bonus goes up x amount.

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d_ippy@reddit

I’ve had jobs with shit perks but I happen to have a job with really great benefits. I pay $50 a month for full health benefits including dental and vision, bonus is 20% of base pay and quarterly stock vests. Once they lay me off I’ll never see these types of benefits again I am sure. I’ve been there 4 years so I’m sure my time is coming.

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User1-1A@reddit

The only time I worked a job with standard overtime/weekend pay like that was when I worked in the pipefitters union.

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Runny-Yolks@reddit

“lol.” -a public health social worker

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slilianstrom@reddit

My employer as added perks: All the major federal holidays off Quarterly profit sharing Biweekly catered lunches No work on Sunday, Saturday is optional for OT

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Former_Influence_904@reddit

We get a binus twice a year. Usually the amount of 1 weeks pay each. My husband gets a binus sround xmas. His is also usually equivalent to 2 weeks pay.

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Extreme_Design6936@reddit

$2 differential for night shift. 10 paid sick days per year. 2 weeks maternity leave. US has some pretty strong bonuses for hard workers.

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MisSpooks@reddit

I work as a factory worker, and we do a profit share quarterly bonus. But this can fluctuate based on how well the factory does every three months. The most I've gotten for a quarter was $2000, but other quarters there wasn't a bonus at all.

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dontpolluteplz@reddit

In my experience most companies that offer a bonus are for salaried positions. Like I get my salary & time off, end of year I get ~10% as a “bonus” based on my performance + how the company does.

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dunncrew@reddit

We have profit sharing, based on company performance.

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hypnothighsd@reddit

When I worked in the States, my boss and his wife took my partner and I to Cedar Point during Halloween time. I found out that I am terrified of haunted houses. The whole park was a haunted house after dark.

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Disastrous_Eagle9187@reddit

I've worked jobs where I got an end of year bonus but it was never anything super substantial. They were equivalent to an extra pay period.

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KopitarFan@reddit

Software Engineer. For my current job I got a signing bonus. I also get a yearly bonus of about 14% of my salary

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ISuckAtFallout4@reddit

Accounting here. I’ve had anywhere from 5-10 but that was the top level and they could sheets be adjusted downwards (and often were).

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maddmax_gt@reddit

Collision industry. Sometimes we get pizza.

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Serious-Lifeguard632@reddit

As a teacher? Nothing.

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forever_a10ne@reddit

It varies. A lot of jobs give no bonuses. Mine gives me company stock worth between $2-10k every couple of months.

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undeniably_micki@reddit

I am a contract driver - no perqs no bonuses. Straight pay but time and a half over 40. It's not the greatest but 🤷🏻‍♀️

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bananajr6000@reddit

When I was an hourly employee, over forty hours in a week (which we call overtime) got me 1.5x my hourly wage, which we call, “time and a half” Over time on holidays would get me 2.5x my hourly wage, which we call, “double time and a half.” Companies obviously don’t like to pay that, so it was much more rare except for people like security personnel Benefits vary greatly based on company and position. For example, I earn 15 days paid time off (PTO) off if I consistently work my 40 hours a week, and I also get all US Federal holidays off. I have the option to pay for Short-term and Long-term disability (which is pretty darn inexpensive), I get company subsidized (crappy) health insurance that I pick and pay a portion of, a 1/2 of my salary free life insurance, a $2000/year training allowance (which is well below average for my industry,) and a couple other things I don’t remember right now. Many jobs get none of that Bonuses are mostly higher for higher earning salaried employees. I once saw the pay structure for a Junior Vice President at a company, and he made $250,000 base plus a guaranteed 30% bonus at the end of November each year. The highest Christmas bonus I got was $500. The lowest (other than nothing, which was 95+ percent of the time) was Christmas ornaments and a $50 credit at the company store My company and the one I am contracted to will buy a catered lunch a few times a year, and the occasional pizza party at work. Sometimes donuts magically appear in the morning. There is a Christmas party, but I don’t go because all the good food is free, but the drinks are not. They offer discounted hotel rooms for after the party to prevent drinking and driving

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AshtinPeaks@reddit

Can't name the place, but where my dad used to work was huge on benefits. Discount products. Life insurance, 401k match x%, they had a vacation area you could stay for relatively cheap on a lake. Company owned gym. Thsts just some of it.

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Rocketgirl8097@reddit

As a corporate employee, we sometimes get an annual bonus. Depends on the profits each year. Things like signing bonuses are only given to professional athletes lol.

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alaskawolfjoe@reddit

Bonuses are not common for the average worker. Usually bonuses are given to people who are already making large salaries.

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Thin-Quiet-2283@reddit

Bonuses?!? Ha,ha,ha! Haven’t had on in almost 20 years . My husband’s company stopped giving bonuses a few years ago, too. Now he gets a Christmas tin of cookies and such.

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Capable_Capybara@reddit

When you have a low-level job and need extra money, there are no perks or bonuses. As you work up into higher salaries, some companies may hand out bonuses equal to more than 100% of your salary. The sky is the limit. My husband got a $20k signing bonus once and annually gets 15-20% now. It is pretty nice. But they hold a big chunk out for taxes.

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Patient_Character730@reddit

I work as a preschool teacher. I get a two hundred dollar bonus at Christmas, and a five hundred bonus at the end of the year. This is the only preschool I've taught at that has done this, and it is very much appreciated.

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Shivdaddy1@reddit

A lot of management positions will get 20% annual bonuses. That number could be double or none.

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Haunting_Matter7437@reddit

In my last company we got 30% of our salary if we met our individual goals. I earned a bonus every year I was there. It was a nice chunk of change.

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Maleficent-Ad5112@reddit

10k. Retail manager.

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wrstlrjpo@reddit

Depends on the role / company / industry and candidate experience. Compensation structure can vary wildly: - sign in bonus - base salary - performance bonus (company and employee) may range from $500 to 200% of base - RSU - Equity - Management incentive program - PTO, may range from 2 weeks to 6+ weeks - 401K match. Typically 2-4%. Some much higher - Healthcare - some company’s may cover the entire cost - disability insurance - life insurance. TL:DR - compensation packages / total rewards can vary wildly

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IrishSetterPuppy@reddit

I dont get health insurance or any vacation days at all, but we get $25 walmart gift cards for chirstmas and thanksgiving.

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MaleficentExtent1777@reddit

When I worked at Amazon, I got a nice signing bonus and stock. Because Amazon's turnover is so high, only part of the bonus was paid upfront. The remaining portion was paid out in installments after my first anniversary. I left before it was fully paid out, but because it was in installments, I wasn't required to repay any of it.

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Lizaderp@reddit

I work in outpatient healthcare. We get a winter coat and a small bonus that is taxed away 😭

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LabOwn9800@reddit

This can vary so much. Hourly works probably get close to nothing. Entry level professional roles might get a couple grand, middle managers might get 10-50k bonuses, directors and vps at large corps might get 100k+ bonuses, c suite types get million dollar bonuses. In the corp world the bonuses are used to incentivize you do do your job well. They are usually tied to performance both of your work but also your groups and companies performance as well. The higher up you are the more of your total compensation is made up of these bonuses and the more you are incentivized to achieve the companies goals. Big company ceos might make a salary of 1 million but have bonuses of 10s of millions tied to things like stock price or revenue or profit.

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Castianna@reddit

I've been bonus eligible at a couple of my past jobs. Between both jobs spanning about 6 years, I only got a bonus once. The companies always came up with dumb excuses as to why they weren't giving out bonuses year after year...

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C19shadow@reddit

I got a 10k sign on bonus for a security contract for every year i was willing to contract out to up to 5 years. I alwasy did 3 year contracts and took a 30k sign on. I dont do that work anymore but saving those sign on bonuses as a medic for that company made me able to afford our house.

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Lornesto@reddit

This fucker said bonuses...

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Zaidswith@reddit

I get an annual Christmas bonus. Along with the overtime rates, I'm not taxed on overtime at the state level and now they've passed that for federal taxes too.

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After-Willingness271@reddit

bonus? the only people who get bonuses don’t need them

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HSclassof24_mom@reddit

I’m in the US and have a salary and I get 20% bonus (so additional 20% of my salary paid out in a lump sum, each year) but it’s not always 20%, it can be less or more depending on company performance and my performance. I’ve worked for different companies where this varies from about 20% to 30%. (I have worked for a European company and I know my colleagues also got bonuses like this). There is also vesting which is a little more complicated but it’s usually related to stock in the company—you have to be with the company a few years to get benefits from that. I only got a “signing bonus” once, and it was really so I could be “made whole” because I was leaving money on the table with my other company by leaving— through stock options I was leaving behind and also bc I wouldn’t get my annual bonus. My employer also subsidizes my health, dental, and vision insurance (by a lot, I sign up for insurance through the company, and it covers my whole family) and pay into my 401k but as a “match”—so like, if I set 3% of salary aside for 401k, my company will also contribute 3%. But if I contribute 10%, they won’t match that—the limit is usually 3-6%. And I get life insurance, I think it’s 2x my salary. There’s no overtime pay/consideration if you’re a salaried employee. Sometimes I work 30 hours a week and sometimes I work 80. Same paycheck every 2 weeks! I work in the pharmaceutical industry.

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No-Carry4971@reddit

I worked at a Fortune 500 company for 35 years, and for the last 30 every employee was bonus eligible. In those 30 years, the company paid a bonus in March every single year. Most year's the bonus was far above the target percentage. The funny thing is, when you pay a bonus every year a lot of people stop appreciating it and start counting on it.

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Big-Carpenter7921@reddit

Usually little to none

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NaturalLoc@reddit

Annual bonus of 20-30% of my Salary. Financial services for F500 co.

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Substantial_Web3081@reddit

I work as a state employee. I get nothing. No bonuses.

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BusyBeinBorn@reddit

Key performance indicators (KPI) are what our bonus is based on. They might be different for different industries. Things like sales, revenue, safety and quality metrics, etc are given a goal and are worth a portion of our bonus. If we were 100% on all KPIs, we’d get 9% of our annual gross pay as a bonus. It’s typically close to 6%.

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Melissa-OnTheRocks@reddit

I work for a small company where we are kinda deliberately underpaid and then at the end of the year we get a profit sharing bonus. The idea is that if salaries are kept a little lower, we can make it through the year and don’t have to layoff/fire anyone at the company if work is slow and we’re hustling breaking even. Similarly, a signing bonus is typically offered instead of a higher salary because it can help with initial moving/wardrobe costs without promising to be an annual cost.

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NeverRarelySometimes@reddit

Most Americans work without contracts. Most workers are at will employees, and can be let go at any time. There are hourly workers subject to overtime and holiday pay, but most good jobs are salaried or commissioned. Salaried jobs pay a fixed rate irrespective of how many hours we work, and when bonuses are applied, they are usually incentives for excellent performance. Commissioned jobs are usually in sales, and you make a percentage of the profit or gross sales above a quota. I am at an unusual job, now, where we get capricious bonuses loosely tied to the company's performance. I don't think they're available to the hourly workers - they're treated like rented office equipment - but the company does annual bonuses for salaried staff as an incentive to stay with the company. This is all at the sole discretion of the owner. This year, they're trying to maximize profit because they want to sell the company. It will be interesting to see if this focus affects year-end bonuses.

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isweatglitter17@reddit

It really depends on the job and business. My partner was an operations manager for a smaller, family owned business. He got a new truck every 40k miles (usually about 9 months) and a fuel card, he was allowed to use both for personal use as well. The job involved a lot of driving to various sites and having a brand new vehicle was kind of a status symbol to represent the company well when showing up for contract negotiations, etc. Me with a corporate office job--I got the benefit of being unpaid for a measly 12 week maternity leave. And then making smaller paychecks for a few months when I got back because I had to repay the insurance premiums that weren't being deducted while I was out. I did finally get a promotion that qualifies me for a 5% annual bonus but it's not guaranteed--bonuses are only issued if the business as a whole meets certain quotas. Someone who works in a restaurant may get the occasional free meal or 25-50% off food from that establishment. And I am sure there are many, many more variations. Even for companies within the same industry.

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FlyingSpacefrog@reddit

Benefits of working for a little Caesar’s (pizza restaurant): 1) free food. If it didn’t sell in 30 minutes after it came out of the oven, it was fair game for the crew to eat. 2) no weekends to spend with the family. I worked every Friday and Saturday and Sunday while I was there. Except for one weekend I took off for my wedding. They made me work from before opening until after closing time four days in a row before my wedding though. 3) empty promises. The boss promised to get us health insurance. They promised raises and promotions that never came. They sold the restaurant, then the next owner made the same empty promises for months. Then nothing happened. I quit shortly after they finally offered me a promotion to store manager, and offered to pay me less money than I made as the assistant manager. I made $50k in one year at $15 per hour with quite a bit of overtime as the assistant manager. They offered a salary of $42k (with no opportunity for overtime pay), for a job that was at minimum 50 hours per week, and pretended they were being generous.

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FlyingSpacefrog@reddit

Benefits of working for the US post office: I make almost twice as much as I did at little Caesar’s. I get paid sick leave and vacations. I get health, dental, and vision insurance. I get paid overtime if I go over 8 hours of work in a day, and double if I go over 10 in a day. I work 60 hours a week. I have the most incompetent management and HR you can imagine.

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sarahzilla@reddit

It really varies. The government regulates overtime, so thats not really considered a bonus. I do get paid for holidays off and have a very generous amount of time off. Strictly speaking bonuses and not just perks of the job, at the beginning of December I get a holiday bonus that equals two weeks of my pay. In March or so, depending on my performance I can get bonus. Last year I did really well and got 8% of my annual salary.

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ZonaWildcats23@reddit

Law firm partners can easily bonus 100k. Some over a million.

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Negative-Ad9832@reddit

At white collar jobs that are good but not amazing, it’s 10-15% of your annual salary. At tech companies I’ve heard it can be more like 50-75% of your salary.

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AlDef@reddit

I’m getting a $800 ‘gratitude bonus’ at my desk job. My friend that’s a paralegal gets a bonus based on their firms annual billing, usually $3-$5k.

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CatchMeIfYouCan09@reddit

We don't get bonuses

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anschauung@reddit

The job I worked for the first decade of my career gave you 2 "personal days" per month. Basically, if you were ahead in your workload you could just tell the boss "I'm taking a PDay tomorrow" and not come in but still get paid. The only "catch" was that you always had to have your cellphone on you and ready to answer during your PDays. You couldn't have just a total "eff it" day. It happened only extremely rarely, but if one of your customers had an emergency and was demanding to speak with you directly, or (whatever) 5 people on your team all called in sick? You were still responsible for getting your job done, PDay or no PDay.

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Myfourcats1@reddit

I used to work for an awesome lab ( they went out of business for some legal trouble). They paid 100% of our health insurance premiums. They made so peoples diabetes meds were free. When we reached 3000 patient specimens everyone got $3000 after taxes. I’d only been there for two months so I got $1500. My friend was there a little longer than me and got $1800. When we hit 4000 specimens we all got $4000 after taxes. So technically the second bonus was over $4000. Then we started getting quarterly bonuses. I heard that execs were getting $20,000. PS. Don’t give doctors offices kickbacks. I also indirectly know a corporate accountant who got a $200,000 bonus on top of the annual salary of $200,000.

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firewings42@reddit

I work in a county hospital. Money wise if we meet certain quality metrics as a whole hospital we get a small bonus of about $350 for full time employees. We also can earn “points” for getting recognition at work. I got a couple nice ones in the last couple years. If you hold on to them you can cash them in for products and gift cards from a catalog online. I got an Amazon gift card. We can get easier access to health care because we work with someone or know someone in that department which might not mean as much in Europe but here it’s a big deal. Like I used my connections in Xray to find out why I couldn’t get an MRI scheduled. Took us some back and forth but we figured it out and coworker called their scheduler and pushed mine up. You can start in a non licensed position and use tuition reimbursement to help pay for schooling in healthcare related fields. That way we can help employees grow and retain talent.

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StopLookListenDecide@reddit

Bonus? Holiday card? Summer event? Just a thank you at survey time, employee appreciation week (breakfast) and year end.

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sickostrich244@reddit

It's different at every company and for certain jobs. Anything performance based like sales can be in a range of 5-20% of certain amounts of revenue sold while some companies like the one I work at have an annual bonus they give to all or most employees where it's like 5-10% of the annual profits.

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BionicSpaceAce@reddit

Lol none. In all honesty, it depends on your job. I once worked somewhere where we got a free frozen turkey for Thanksgiving and a free frozen ham for Christmas and that was nice. But good luck making a living wage or getting time off during the year. And vacation days? You could put in for them but they were never approved.

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Major_Barnacle_2212@reddit

It really ranges on the industry and job market. My husband makes incentive based bonuses based on the profit of the company. Some years that may mean next to nothing, while other years it’s almost $100k. Our good friend in a similar role to his gets stock, not cash. These are just examples. I work I. A public sector and there are absolutely no bonuses of any kind. No perks. When I started working in the private sector many years ago, there were signing bonuses, relocation bonuses, Christmas bonuses, and things like that. Smaller family companies may do their own perks, but it’s not the standard. Especially not in this economy.

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cappotto-marrone@reddit

I get to choose between time or money. I always take time. An extra week of vacation each year so far. (I get four weeks annually. Plus sick leave.)

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ElaborateCantaloupe@reddit

I used to get a 12.5% bonus at my last job. This was a holdover from when the company offered pensions then offered annual bonus as a replacement for that benefit. Current job - 0%. But I did get a bunch of stock options which are currently worth… checks notes… $0.

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dth1717@reddit

I'm USPS we get shitty pins for big achievements. For my 30 year anniversary I got a form letter and a pin.

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cheekmo_52@reddit

With most jobs in the US, there is no employment contract. They can fire you at any point…but the flip side to that is you can also quit at any point too. So sometimes, especially at companies undergoing management changes or layoffs, they offer the essential employees a retention bonus. (They essentially pay you a large sum not to quit on them during the transition, that you would have to give back if you do quit.)

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SheShelley@reddit

Bonus? Bahahaha

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Couldthisnamebetaken@reddit

Any bonuses are usually negated by working in a relentless soul-crushing environment. The only time I got a bonus I was working for a small private firm where I was working 10 hr days and often over weekends. I was hourly so I was still paid for what I worked, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t utterly stressed out and miserable. Also, they could have just hired more staff to even out the workload.

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bearamongus19@reddit

I work in IT i get a longevity bonus and a Christmas ham at my company

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R5Jockey@reddit

I’m director level in IT for a Fortune 500 company. My annual “bonus” is about 1/3 of my total compensation and is split between a cash bonus and equity grants. Generally speaking, for corporate jobs, the higher up the ladder you get, the larger your bonus/equity grants are in terms of percentage of your compensation. VPs and SVPs can often double or triple their salary in bonus/equity.

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harpejjist@reddit

The payment for deceased family isn’t a bonus. That is life insurance and most companies have some sort of life insurance you can pay for. And sometimes they pay for it or add to it. Companies that have publicly traded stock often give employees stock or stock options. An option means you have to work for them a few years before you really get it. And once you do sell you get the difference between the price it was when you were given it and the price on the day you sell. This is an incentive bonus. Some places give you some money at the holidays. It may be proportional to your salary. Some employers offer a bonus when hired to cover the costs of moving house to the new location. If you quit before working a full year you pay it back. Otherwise you keep it. If you make the company a lot of money you may earn a thank you bonus. Many places offer profit share bonuses which means every year or even every quarter they give you a taste of the profits.

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Texan2116@reddit

Only people getting sign on bonuses are probably highly educated or skilled.

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Grand_Raccoon0923@reddit

I’m salaried, but I get overtime bonuses.

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SeoT9X@reddit

I get a cut of a monthly commission and a quarterly bonus, on top of my salary (logistics operations)

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Aurtistic-Tinkerer@reddit

Bonuses are additional incentives beyond those base pay laws. For instance, a hiring bonus is just a one time extra pay beyond your normal hourly rate to get you in the door. Many companies do annual bonuses which are again extra beyond your normal income, usually based on if the whole company or team had a really good year of work/results/profit. These are in addition to holidays, overtime rates, off-shift pay bumps, or weekend shift pay bumps.

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ArtemisQuil@reddit

Obviously there’s insurance, but there’s also gym membership, lunch at breakeven prices, bonuses around the holidays, bonuses based on performance. I’ve heard of vacation packages or vehicles being a prize offered for some sort of performance-based contest, though that might just be a TV and movies thing. I’ve also heard of companies offering childcare options, though I’d doubt it’s for complete free. The downside is that employers aren’t mandated to provide paid maternity/paternity leave, and can be pretty stingy with sick leave. On one hand, some smaller businesses really can’t afford everything the big corporations can. On the other, it provides a loophole for bigger, wealthier companies to take advantage of.

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ME_EAT_BABIES@reddit

I work for a big auto insurance company. I'm a supervisor and I get up to 24% of my salary in a cash bonus depending on company wide performance. Looks like it's gonna be between 23.88-24% this year because we've been doing extremely well.

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Communal-Lipstick@reddit

Sign on bonus, company car, paid vacation/personal days, insurance.

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Bot_Marvin@reddit

If you are an airline pilot at a major airline, 401k contributions. 17-18% DC, so you don’t need to contribute a dime of your own money to your retirement.

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SouthernTrauma@reddit

This varies wildly, depending on industry, company size, location, etc. 2 of the companies I've worked for offered heavily subsidized childcare, onsite gyms, wellness reimbursements for massage, meditation, gum memberships, etc., time off to volunteer, free breakfast in the cafeteria, commuter subsidies. But none of the other companies I've worked for offered anything close to this. But I'm in a thriving industry where 90% of the employees are white collar and have at least a Master's degree, usually in science or medicine.

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goni05@reddit

I think everyone pretty much hit everything pretty well, but one thing that I saw was barely mentioned was a relocation package. I see this as a kind of sign on bonus, because it was reported as "income" for tax purposes. In my experience, this was inflated so after taxes, you were net equal. However, this can be significant for some people. For me, this included all fees associated with selling my old home (including closing costs & fees), moving company, temporary housing for 6 months, and closing costs for my new home. I received I think $5k sign on bonus, and I think the relocation was about $20k. This came with terms and conditions of course, but it made the decision to move that much easier and really took a load off.

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SZGriff@reddit

It's really all over the place. I would say that in most white collar office jobs you'll be paid for bank holidays, 20-30 vacation days and be able to participate in various tax advantaged spending programs (transit, dependent care, etc). Sometimes companies will offer life insurance while you work there. Cash/stock bonuses are very industry specific, most jobs won't pay significant bonuses while in others such as finance bonuses can be larger than your salary.

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JimTheJerseyGuy@reddit

My work in IT management usually qualified me for a 15-25% bonus annually depending on my performance, my employees’ performance as well as the company’s overall.

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beyondplutola@reddit

I work at a consumer tech company, VP level. Bonus is 25% of annual salary and annual stock options at time of grant are high-five figures and vest over the course of 4 years. Their eventually value will vary greatly depending on company performance.

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moonchic333@reddit

I get monthly and quarter incentive bonuses. They are a fucking scam because they are taxed at almost 60%.

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SFJetfire@reddit

Many years ago when I worked at United Airlines Reservation Center, we would have a year end party and there amazing raffle prizes for even the staff who were working and couldn’t make it. There were first class tickets international, resort stays and cruises. The United team usually reached out to the hospitality industry and they gave us some good prizes.

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Choice-Marsupial-127@reddit

I was in education, then a government worker. Bonuses came in the form of pizza parties or stupid clocks to set on your desk if you hit a work milestone, like twenty years of service. My husband works in private sector in a highly skilled niche field. He generally gets a 10-15% bonus annually that depends on company performance and individual performance. He also got a one time signing bonus to help cover cost of moving.

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Winston3rd@reddit

Break rooms filled with diabetes causing free sodas and snacks

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gtne91@reddit

I get a 10% bonus, based on company hitting certain metrics. It can be more or less. This year, we are on target for about a 9% bonus. Lots of companies do it as a way to be able to decrease salaries in hard times because no one would put up with a cut in their base salary. In a bad year I could get a 3% cost of living increase but a 10% cut in bonus, for example.

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im-not-a-panda@reddit

People get bonuses???

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Airamis0007@reddit

Free coffee…

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Odd_Championship7286@reddit

I get 1.5x for any hours over 40, and for on call shifts, no bonus for working Sundays since it’s part of my regular shift. I get a bonus at the end of each quarter based on performance (usually about $1k). And the standard raise with inflation each year (usually 3-5%). I didn’t get a sign on bonus but I’m not considered a skilled worker so they don’t need to incentivise as much to get good employees.

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Prize_Consequence568@reddit

*"What kind of bonuses do American jobs offer?"* Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha!🤣😂😆

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DopeCookies15@reddit

I have an incentive bonus, based on how much I do my bonus goes up. When we are busy, that can easily be $7,500+/month. When we are steady it's usually around $3500 and when we are slow anywhere from $100 to $1000.

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PrimusDCE@reddit

Stock options. My best friend added to his base pay of 200kish to 300kish last tax year.

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DaveKelso@reddit

If my office hits our targets for the year, I can get a bonus equal to 45% of my salary.

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TopHeavyPigeon@reddit

My bonus is 16 percent of my salary. I don’t bitch by any means, who would?

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Annual-Budget-1756@reddit

WAIT, Y'all are getting bonuses? 😧

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Tommy_Wisseau_burner@reddit

What kind of bonuses do you mean? Well generally we make like 1.5x more than your standard European. Time off varies per company. You get 1.5x more on overtime with a cap of 69.5 hours at larger companies (maybe smaller ones too idk). And then larger companies have end of year bonuses. Last year was 11% of base salary and then I got a 3% raise

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ur_nam_hier@reddit

The 1.5x overtime is federal law. All overtime pays at that minimum.

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kartoffel_engr@reddit

Bonuses are separate from benefits, like the ones you listed. My benefits are great. Currently have 5wks of paid vacation, 12 sick days, 3 floating holidays, and then get off all the “bank holidays”, medical/dental/vision, HSA contributions, 401k contributions, and overall just flexible time (assuming performance isn’t impacted). My bonus target is 25% of my salary, with the ability to get all the way up to 50%, depending on company performance. RSUs for exceptional performance are also an option. There has only been one year where we didn’t get bonuses due to company performance, but that was driven more by a CEO decision that wasn’t great….with a few other contributors.

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drunkadvice@reddit

I got a hoodie with the Logo on it to celebrate 10 years of employment. So…. Christmas bonus was 100 gift card (which has taxes taken out of my check). I mean, I love the company, people, and they take care of everything else I’d want. Meanwhile, at an old call center job paying 25% of what I make now, we would get 2-3k bonuses every year.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

In my industry, there's usually a bonus if the company is profitable. It's usually a percentage of salary, with multipliers for your review performance, and some multiplier (or divider) depending on whether the company hits its revenue target.

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303ColoradoGrown@reddit

When our company was active, we took all taxable earnings left over after funds needed for the next year's spending requirements and split it among all employees. Either pay it out or pay it in taxes so, we paid it out!

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tranquilrage73@reddit

I used to get 7-800 per quarter. LOL. Not anymore.

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winterboo@reddit

One thing I’m not seeing mentioned, so I apologize if it has been, but we also don’t typically have employment contracts like you do in Europe. Some might at much higher levels but I’ve never had one and have never anyone I know have one.

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pfffffttuhmm@reddit

My current job I do not get a bonus. I get +$1 on weekends, and 1.5x for holidays. My husband got a bonus of $300k over 2 years plus stock multiple times a year. Guess who makes more money in my household.

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Psynautical@reddit

I worked at a company that regularly gave bonuses in excess of annual salaries and I've worked in schools where you're lucky to get a cookie during teacher appreciation week - it really dep on the job..

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not_a_expert69@reddit

I’m an electrician my company offers health, vision and detal insurance but we have to pay into it a little but it’s cheaper to do it through ur compost usually then it is to just call up the insurance company and buy a plan. Legally it’s over 40 hours in a week they have to pay 1.5x but at my company it’s every hour over 8 in a day they pay 1.5x regardless of ur weekly hours so u can work 10’s mon-thurs work 40 hours but it’s technically 8 of them is paid at 1.5x. My company also does it to where every Saturday is 1.5x regardless if ur over 40 hours or not and Sundays are 2x but it’s very rare they ask people to work Sundays. Only time I ever heard it happen in the 3 year I been at this company was a foreman had to show up for a inspection on a Sunday cuz that was the only time the town was able to come out for some stupid reason but he got paid 2x an hour for it

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spaltavian@reddit

I have a quarterly bonus based on performance on certain metrics and annual potential is nearly a third of my regular salary. I also have an incentive plan (kind of like stock options but not exactly since we aren't publicly traded). The yearly dividends depend on company performance but are usually around 10 - 15% of my salary, and the entire plan will cash out when I leave the company. It should be a significant amount of money (barring disaster).

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ColumbiaWahoo@reddit

Mine gives up to 10% for good performance (I got 5% last year). Most companies give 0 though.

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fender8421@reddit

Big companies often have contract deals where you get cheaper gym memberships or discounts on random shit (bikes, cameras, whatever) that they have worked out. Used to get cheap GoPro's and discounts on LA Fitness that way, and use it after I left

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Traditional-Ad-8737@reddit

Huge variation. My profession (ER veterinary business) will not only have sign on bonuses but also recruitment bonuses. If you signed up though and got a bonus, it would be for x timeframe and you may have to pay the company back if you break your contract. Employee retention thing. Today, I just had a last minute meeting with management, and was rewarded with a surprise $10k bonus, to be paid in January for my time with the company (over a decade!!! I coincidentally turned down an unsolicited job offer from a competitor and start up, and management was VERY aware of it (I didn’t ask for anything btw), they heard through the grapevine

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WelcomeToDankonia@reddit

Occasional pizza party in the break room.

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YB9017@reddit

I had a high level corporate job. My average bonus was about 7k. My biggest one was 12k. My lowest one was like 2k. After taxes though, I got like half. :(

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Oppositeofhairy@reddit

I work for a large company. I get a baseline bonus of 6% of my annual salary x a multiplier of .01-2.0 depending on the profitability of the company and individual performance. I’ve never hit the lowest or the highest multiplier but close to the highest a few times. This year should be 1.8 to 1.9. Bonuses are also taxed really high. Like nearing 50% so should be around 7-8k takehome this year. The level above me has a baseline of 15% with the same multipliers. I hope to get to that point by next year.

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tony282003@reddit

Many places don't offer employees bonuses. My current employer offers a Christmas bonus to all employees, but some of my other employers didn't have any bonuses of any kind.

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mtcwby@reddit

Totally varies depending on company and position. Previous company it was a percentage of salary or a flat amount at Christmas. That said when I had a very good year I could get a big salary bump. Later on it was a small percentage of the net that might add up to half my salary. Next company it was a percentage of cost control and another part of exceeding targets plus people they wanted to keep would get share grants that vest over time. Basically bronze handcuffs. Maybe not enough to keep you from leaving but enough to make you think about it.

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zylpher@reddit

What I've gotten where I work currently throughout the years. What I remember. 100% paid for relocation. (They don't offer this as often anymore.) Sign on bonus of $8,500 in stock. Multiple grants adding up to around $40k in stock. Within the first 2 years. Twice yearly bonuses that give you between $1400-$4000 you can spend on more PTO. Stocks. Stock options. Or you can just take the cash. Amount depends on your review. We can buy stock at a 15% discount. Possibilities of raises every quarter. Depends on if the company opens them or not. Got 3.5% last quarter. Around 8hrs PTO a month. Amount depends on hours worked. 1hr sick time for every 30 worked. About 4 hours a month. Works out to around 40hrs a year for sick time. Floating holiday, an extra 8 hours of PTO that is less restrictive to use. It's purpose is so you can take a holiday off that is not normally given off without having to use sick time or regular PTO. I usually use it for my birthday. Non monetary stuff like, Free coffee, soda, and water in the break room. Snack things like goldfish or trail mix. Different cereals. There also have a mini-mart type thing that sells your normal gas station stuff. We also have a couple food court style food options. A pizza place, burgers, Korean. It rotates out. Occasionally places like Chick-fil-A will show up once or twice a week. We also get a few food trucks showing up that they contract with. There are multiple busses that pick up from the surrounding area. And you can enroll into a program to get a rental if you can get 4 or more people.

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Sugah-mama21@reddit

I got a sign on bonus. Anything over 40 is time and a half, holidays are dbl time.

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semisubterranean@reddit

First, I would like to define what _bonus_ means to me: receiving additional pay or stock your employer is not obligated to give you. To me, overtime pay is not a bonus because it is required. Free food or other goods and services are _perks_. Insurance and retirement funds are _benefits_ that are part of your agreed upon compensation package. Only something the company gives you that is above what they agreed to and has a readily interchangeable monetary value is a _bonus_ in my mind. Different industries have different bonuses. Nurses and other high-demand jobs sometimes get signing bonuses when they are hired. I have friends who are nurses who got $10,000 just for choosing that hospital over others. My father worked in software development, as does my brother now. Their employees distribute a portion of profits every year to workers. Some years my brother gets no bonus. Most years it's thousands of dollars. There have been times his year-end bonus was more than $60,000. My dad never got that much as a bonus when he was working, but generally his bonus was enough to cover all Christmas expenses including travel, presents and food for our family with a little left over. I work at a small university. We get a Christmas bonus each year that is more symbolic than anything. Everyone gets the same bonus, whether they are the university president or a part-time janitor. Most years it's about $150, but there have been years when enrollment was down that we got much less. It definitely does not compare to what my brother gets. I get better benefits (a higher match rate for my retirement funds, excellent health insurance, free cell service, student loan assistance) and more perks (discounts at the campus store and cafeteria, branded clothes and swag, free classes, etc.) than my brother does, but it doesn't make up for the difference in income or year-end bonus.

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mjhs80@reddit

We get between 15-18% of our salary as a yearly bonus where I work

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Lbboos@reddit

MS in healthcare/therapy in subacute rehab. Never even got a stinking pizza from ANY management team. No raises. Moral of the story? Steer clear of PT/OT/SLP career. It will eat you alive.

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Fishtails@reddit

I work for the state government, so my paycheck comes from taxpayer dollars. No bonuses allowed by law. However very occasionally overtime will come up where we can work a Saturday for 1.5x pay, but it is very rare, and requires pre authorization.

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Natural-Many8387@reddit

for christmas i got a cash bonus that was pretty decent IMO.

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secrerofficeninja@reddit

I am 57M American and worked for 4 different companies for my career. 3 American companies and 1 German. The German company had far better pay and benefits than the 3 American companies.

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I_am_just_here11@reddit

I work at a bank. We get an annual bonus based on the performance of the department and the bank as a whole. There is a scorecard. It is on a scale of 0-110%. If we meet objectives and goals we get a 100%. If we exceed we could get up to 110%. Basically how much the bonus is based on 2 things: 1. Percent on score card 2. Average pay period earnings. (Pay period is every 2 weeks aka 80 hours). For example if I make $2000 a pay period and we get a 90% on the score card then 90% of $2000 is $1800. My annual bonus would be $1,800.

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musing_codger@reddit

It varies enormously. The major division in US worker laws is whether or you are "exempt" from the Fair Labor Standards Act. It requires 1.5x pay for all hours worked past 40 in one week. It does not cover most salaried professionals. I've been retired for about five years, so I'll answer based on my last job. I got a signing bonus of $25,000 (about $40,000 in today's dollars) and about $40,000 in restricted stock grants that would vest (become mine) over the course of 3 years if I stayed with the company (1/3 at the end of each year). While working there, I had a bonus target of 30%. That meant that in a typical year, I could expect a 30% bonus. It varied based on the company's performance, my department's performance, and my personal performance. During my stay, it varied from a low of 25% to a high of 75%. On average, I think I got roughly a 50% annual bonus. I also got stock grants every year. They weren't automatic, but the higher your level and the better your performance, the more likely you were to get them. They averaged about $30,000 worth of stock that would vest over 3 years. I was also protected by a change of control agreement. It was common in my industry. Ours was the best I'd seen. If the company was acquired or merged and I was laid off within 2 years of the merger, I would get 2 years of pay, 2 years of bonuses at 1.5x my bonus target (so 45%), an extra year of vacation pay (I got 7 weeks of vacation), paid for my unused vacation, and all of my stock grants would instantly vest. When we were acquired, they offered us old-timers a "voluntary severance package" where we could volunteer to be laid off. It was a great deal for us, so almost all the old-timers took it. I had one other notable bonus in my career. At a prior company back in 2000, the company was struggling in my department, so they gave me a 3 year retention bonus. For each of the next three years, I got an extra $20,000 and an extra 6,000 in stock options. That was on top of my normal bonus and stock options. Options were popular before they changed the accounting rules, and then most companies switched to granting restricted shares. There were other financial incentives. At one company, we had an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. It let set aside up to 15% of your gross pay. After six months, the money was used to buy company stock at a 15% discount to the lower of the starting price for the period or the ending price, whichever was lower. So if the stock went down in price, you got a 15% discount. If it went up in price, you got all those gains plus the 15% discount. It was a great deal, but it was painful, because 15% of my gross pay was a big chunk of my net pay. We also get a 6% 401K match at most of the companies I worked for. My last company also had a pension plan, although they ended that for younger employees. It also paid for retiree health insurance. All-in-all, the companies I worked for had unusually generous benefits by US standards. Oil and gas had to do that because it wasn't a popular industry, and they could afford to do that because revenue per employee was incredible. I loved the work and retired very well off at age 54.

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1Negative_Person@reddit

This is a big question that has lots of different answers. Some bonuses are a profit sharing incentive. Others may be offered for things like helping with relocation, or enticing applicants in a competitive market. I’ve given signing bonuses to enable new hires to buy themselves out of contracts with an employer that they’re leaving, or to cover a gap in insurance. I personally receive bonuses based on personal performance, company performance, and to compensate for overtime that I’m not paid as a salaried employee. My annual monetary bonus is usually between 15-30% of my salary, in addition to stock options.

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negcap@reddit

If my wife bills more than X amount, she will get 25% of anything over X as a bonus. If she doesn’t then she just gets her salary. She did get a signing bonus but she was returning to a company that loved her and she had worked for previously for many years. It was like a welcome back gift. My brother works in tech and has gotten equity as a bonus many times.

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NarrowAd4973@reddit

Only job worth mentioning is my current one (the one a few jobs ago might have been comparable, but it was years ago and I don't remember the benefits). Quarterly and annual bonuses based on plant performance, capping at 3% of what you were paid for that period (plant performance determines the percentage, and that percentage is the same for everyone). Every position has competency levels, and as you complete the requirements to move up a level, you get a raise that can be a few dollars an hour. 11 paid holidays this year. I didn't count next year, but they're making January 2nd a company holiday, which they don't normally do, so maybe a higher count. If a date based holiday falls on a weekend, like July 4th will next year, they give us Friday or Monday instead (they also give us the Monday after Easter, but call it "Spring Holiday"). 401k with match up to 10%. You're required to put in at least 6%, or they don't match at all. 6 sick days and 15 vacation days for the first 4 years, with three vacation days that can be used as short notice emergency vacation days. Also short term disability for longer periods someone is out (I'm currently working in a different area because a guy is out on short term for eye surgery, been a month so far, he's expected back after Thanksgiving). Disability is included in the benefits package that also includes medical, dental, vision, and a couple other insurances. Also offers identity theft protection. Paternity and maternity leave. Not sure how it works, other than the guys that have kids are normally out for a month. One was out for two months, supposedly because there were complications. An actual cafeteria with a staffed kitchen, rather than just a break room with a couple microwaves. An actual medical clinic inside the building, rather than just a nurse's office or just calling an ambulance (they'll still be calling an ambulance for injuries, but the clinic can handle preliminary and minor medical issues). Turkey giveaway every November. Everyone that wants one can get one, and it's a big bird. When asked how I feel about the job, I like to joke that it's way better than the last one, but that's a really low bar. That last place sucked, and I only stayed as long as I did because of Covid related hiring freezes. There is no real comparison between them. This one is better by magnitudes. Perhaps should ge noted that while the plant is in the U.S., the company is German.

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Traumarama79@reddit

Google is like the "Welcome to Heaven" of American employers (although I've been reading *Enshittification* lately and actually the "workplace heaven" thing is kind of a myth; until recently they also made you sign contracts that you wouldn't sue Google if your boss SAed you, which was an actual thing that happened). Most American states have at-will employment, meaning your employer can fire you for any reason as long as it's not disclosed; therefore, our worker's protections (like anti-discrimination) don't really exist. If an employer wants to fire an employee because they are a minority, and there's no hard evidence of that happening, then that's totally fine. Even if you were called a slur beforehand, if there's no paper trail, you're just kinda cooked. American companies are also not required to pay severance. Therefore, your company can let you go for whatever reason--layoffs from too much hiring, they just don't like you, raising their bottom line for shareholders and upper management--and leave you high and dry. Our employers are eventually required to give us six weeks of unpaid family leave. Eventually. After we've worked there for a year. And the company is at least 50 employees or more. Employers are also required to provide health insurance for full-time employees; full-time is at least 40 hours, so having an employee for like 35 hours or 38 even allows you to skirt this. And then the insurance you can provide can be the lowest-shelf shit on the market. Like, $15,000 deductible nonsense that's basically designed to cut you a slight break for in-network care and prevent you from having a massive bill in a catastrophic injury or illness situation. Remember the Google story I started this off with? A lot of employers require employees to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) preventing whistleblowing if abuse occurs. And then, finally, don't get me started on the 1099 or independent contractor trap that occurs so that employers can get away with anything from not having to provide health insurance to full-time workers, not providing unpaid leave, and even charging workers "rent" for things like tattoo booths or stripper poles. My current employer treats us very well. I can take sick when I'm sick and my health insurance covers my and my child's medical costs well. It took me six years of postsecondary schooling and $70k in debt to get here. And most of the benefits of this job revolve around its ability to take care of me and my child as chronically ill people (we have a genetic disorder). Never let anyone delude you into thinking the US is the "richest" country in the world. We are 50 third world countries on a silver platter that a handful of billionaires get to eat off of.

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spicyredacted@reddit

When I worked in retail they gave us $100 every year as a Christmas bonus, my second job I didn't get a bonus, my third job we received a whole 40 hour paycheck once a year in November and my current job Idk bc I have only been working there for ~4 months.

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Waisted-Desert@reddit

I get free food every Friday, burgers on the grill or fast food or cold cuts, and a $100 bill on my birthday.

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DoubleHexDrive@reddit

I’ve had signing bonuses of $5K to $10K before. I no longer get overtime (I’m a salaried engineer) but get bonuses of 20+% of my annual income as a single check plus stock grants as part of my compensation package. On good years, this goes up considerably.

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Quenzayne@reddit

Not many. Even salaries at huge famous companies mostly suck.

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mister_burns1@reddit

I worked in finance for a long time. Comp is by design highly variable and based on performance. Bonuses can be 1-3x your salary on a regular basis for wide swath of non-superstar employees. Obviously there are plenty of stories about huge bonuses, but it’s a much smaller number of people.

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OGMom2022@reddit

They bring in pizza. Sometimes we get ice cream. This is what you do for kids, not grown ass adults.

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Ashhh1991@reddit

I work at a state university, and one of the best perks is that I get 75% off tuition at any state college or university — not just for myself, but also for my spouse and children. Honestly, that benefit alone is one of the main reasons I plan to stay long-term, aside from having great coworkers and strong leadership. My family really values higher education, so I don’t plan on retiring until all my kids finish college. I’m also part of the state pension plan. After 30 years of service, I’ll receive 75% of my final salary for life. If I pass away before my spouse, the pension continues for them until their death. I’ll hit my 30 years around age 53, but I’ll probably keep working until my kids are done with school. Every year I work beyond that point just increases my pension percentage. Since we’re a government university, there are no bonuses or profit-sharing, and we’re not allowed to accept gifts or prizes. But between the pension and the education benefits, it’s still one of the most rewarding and stable career setups I could ask for.

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Prize_Common_8875@reddit

I’m a teacher. I get a single lifesaver mint with a note saying “thought you might want some encourage-mint” or something like that every year. That’s about it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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LadyCoru@reddit

Perks or cash bonuses? Those are super different. I get a bonus of around 1% of my salary at the end of the year. I've worked at Disney and Universal before though and they liked to count the perks (discounts, free admission, etc) as part of our salaries.

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2aboveaverage@reddit

I work for a small construction company. Last year for Christmas I got a $10k bonus, and then got a bonus of $7k in February as a "year end" bonus.

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Disastrous-Screen337@reddit

My wife gets a $100k bonus every year. I get the bonus of staying at home.

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RodneyBarringtonIII@reddit

Now I work in the public sector and we don't get bonuses anymore, but back when I was in the private sector I got a bonus when my employer crossed the threshold of 1 billion dollars of annual revenue. The bonus was a stack of note cards with positive character traits printed on one side, and we were all encouraged to determine which of our coworkers most represented each card, and give it to them. I got "sticktuitiveness." It was the only card I received because out of around 30 people in my department, only one of them decided to fill the cards out.

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SpecialComplex5249@reddit

I work at a university. We get free tuition for ourselves and dependents. There are employees whose tuition benefits exceed their salaries.

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languagelover17@reddit

My husband just became a VP at his job. His bonuses (before taxes, take home is a little more than half) used to be 10-15 grand. This year he entered the VP pool and will get probably 50k or more.

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Significant_Bid2142@reddit

You already named the main ones: sign up bonus, annual bonus. Often you can get stock options or RSUs - these can end up being very valuable (I made close to 1/2 a million after the company I worked at was acquired) or worth nothing at all (again, happened to me a few times). Some have unlimited vacation but in practice I doubt that it goes over 4 or 5 weeks a year. Retirement plans like 401k sometimes come with a 3-6% match. Sometimes HSA also get a deposit from your employer. I wouldn't look at Google to try to get a sense of what 99% of companies do for their employees.

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West_Light9912@reddit

At my job someone got a bonus for writing a script even though its not officially a part of the job

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Free-Sherbet2206@reddit

I get a paycheck every 2 weeks and that’s it. I have never received double pay for anything, especially not sundays and holidays.

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icekraze@reddit

Maternity leave and sick time are considered perks here. Also I don’t know any companies that pay more if you work on the weekend if you are under 40 (sometimes 50) hours. Every place I worked at overtime was 1.5x from 41-80 hours and then 2x after 80 unless you were salary and then it didn’t matter how much overtime you were paid the same. One place I worked did give one paid 30 min break but you couldn’t use it for lunch and it wasn’t guaranteed so often you just worked through it. Another place I worked offered two paid 10 minute breaks and while it was frowned upon I usually put them together for my lunch… otherwise I wouldn’t get them. I would say the biggest perk offered by any of my employers was 100% tuition assistance up to $15,000k a year BUT you had to maintain a GPS and work for them for 5 years after graduating. If you left before that 5 years you had to pay back the tuition within a month. I never used it and heard horror stories.

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WhatABeautifulMess@reddit

I used to work for a national liquor chain and I got a free case of wine a month.

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OkSubstance8759@reddit

The company I just started doubles our paycheck as a bonus for Christmas. No we are not hiring.

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Honest_Road17@reddit

There's a popcorn machine in the break room.

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wheedledeedum@reddit

Most people do not get bonuses of any kind. They're lucky if they see cost of living increases on a regular cadence. I'm fortunate to work for an ethical company, so I get ~$20,000/yr as a bonus (~20% of my salary), as well as raises every year, 5 weeks of paid vacation, unlimited sick time (that's not actually a scam - we're encouraged to use it when needed), my employer gives us a $1,000/yr 'lifestyle account' that can be used for anything from doctor's co-pays, to groceries, or even booking travel; they contribute 7.5% of my salary to a 401k whether I contribute or not, and I have Grade AA insurance (health, vision, dental, life, short term disability, long-term disability... they'll even send a nanny to watch my kids for up to 2 weeks if I had a childcare crisis(I won't; no kids)) that costs me ~$25/paycheck. They also paid for my bachelor's and masters degrees up-front. Again... I'm extremely fortunate, and this is extremely a-typical behavior from an American company.

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Emotional-Loss-9852@reddit

My company pays new grads a $20k sign on bonus Annual bonuses ranging from $3k for associates to tens of thousands for directors+ Long term incentives for directors+

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anclwar@reddit

I worked in nonprofit for a few years, never got a bonus because that's how it should be. Moved to for-profit and didn't get bonuses because they didn't want to give us bonuses. Moved to a new job and started to get bonuses based off the previous year's metrics. Usually came out to about 1.5-2x a normal paycheck. Towards the end of my time there, I started getting retention bonuses because the company was losing employees like crazy over poor management and they refused to fire the crappy manager. Seemed like it would have been more efficient to get rid of one person rather than pay out several thousands in retention bonuses and the cost of onboarding new employees constantly, but I'm not an MBA, so what do I know? Anyway, the company I work for now offers bonuses based off the previous year's metrics, as well. Again, they come out to 1.5-2x a normal paycheck.

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Pretend_Spring_4453@reddit

My current job in IT/Computer Science is the only job I've received a bonus in. It also requires that the company performs at a specific level so last year, no bonus. Even though my team did very well.

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fshagan@reddit

I have worked for companies with various bonus systems. Most are based on either company performance and/or your division or department's performance. In one company with both a company and division bonus, I qualified for a division bonus for cutting costs when the company missed its sales goals (and did not get a company performance bonus that year). The bonuses ranged from 2% to 14% of my regular salary. The one company that didn't have defined "goals" to reach a bonus gave every employee a bonus at the same percentage. They averaged around 8% in their bonuses.

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rafaelthecoonpoon@reddit

We got a pizza party once.

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DummyThiccDude@reddit

The ones I've personally seen: Holiday bonus/gift (varies from being cash to something completely worthless) Extra $1/hr for working outside (home improvement store with a lumber yard) Instant profit share that increases yearly to a cap of 15% (requires certain hours and store incentives to be met) Management bonuses, usually for not exceeding payroll. Sales kickbacks on certain items

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whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit

Last year for Christmas my husband got a holiday Ecard with permission to print it out using the company printer. He works for a billion dollar a year telecommunications company.

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YoshiandAims@reddit

I've never worked in an industry where that it common. Not a lot of friends have the type of bonuses and perks that you see in media.

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Aprilinachevy@reddit

I'm CEO of regional telecommunications company, we are family owned. Christmas bonuses win out this week.So people have money for black friday shopping. Bonuses were 10% of your pay everyone got a $100 Gift card to the honey baked ham company.

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Derwin0@reddit

Every company is different.

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run4cake@reddit

This can highly differ even with jobs in the same industry & seniority level. Between jobs it’s an even wider gap. Like you said, not having many worker laws means there’s a lot of flexibility in what employers offer. I’d say the average worker still mostly thinks they’re in a good position if they have heath insurance and maybe a retirement plan. These can be difficult even for people with university degrees to obtain. If you don’t at least have health insurance, most “bonuses” aren’t big enough to matter. My job is on the extremely cushy end of American jobs. I am salaried, get up to a 40% cash bonus annually, plus long term incentive bonus of up to 20% every 3 years, plus 10% retirement fund matching, 5 weeks vacation, 16 weeks maternity leave, decent health insurance. This job requires working in office 45-50 hours a week plus some travel. I happen to work for a European company & I do get paid quite a bit more than people in Europe. My husband does practically the same job for a different company and is 5 years more senior. He works on an hourly billing basis and works from home for the flexibility. He gets paid for 4 weeks vacation, gets I think 6% retirement fund matching, health insurance, but little to no bonus. However, he gets 1.5x overtime if working over 40 hours and has a lot of 32 hour weeks that pay 40.

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Savings-Wallaby7392@reddit

Got a big sign on bonus once. $120,000 wirg a guaranteed $120,000 first year bonus. They worked me like a dog 55 hours a week plus I did 24,000 miles worth traveling. Yea I got my 240k

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tn00bz@reddit

I had a 2k sign on bonus, it's now up to 10k. Thats pretty sweet. Im salary so I dont get time and half for over time or anything like that, but any wage job is required to get time and a half after 40 hours a week.

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gunnster3@reddit

It really depends. Bonuses can look different depending on industry. If you’re in low end services, as others have mentioned, probably nothing. Maybe a free thing here or there. If you’re in professional trades or services, you might see anything from a few hundred bucks at year end all the way up to low-five-figure performance bonuses. In higher end executive roles, you might see mid-five-figures and up, with some C-suite bonuses hitting six or seven figures depending on the compensation structure. In many publicly traded companies (and some private firms) you’ll see employee stock options as a compensation element, which allow employees to get ownership of companies at low stock prices, where they can turn around and sell for a gain and make money that way. But, as with most things in America, it just depends on where you are and what you’re doing. Things are quite stratified here.

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Eubank31@reddit

New grad, I got $1000 (after tax) for moving expenses, and $10,000 (pre tax) as a sign on bonus. I also have access to an employee stock purchase program, heavy discounts on our own products, and access to partner programs where I can get discounts on a ton of outdoor gear

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freecain@reddit

The jobs that give out bonuses tend to be to employees who need the bonuses the least.

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Charming_Narwhal_970@reddit

I think generally the kind of jobs that give the bonuses that you hear about, our salary workers. Not hourly workers that would be subject to double time or time and a half as far as how much they are, it runs the gamut. Example, a kid straight out of college right now getting a job in New York City. They may get hired at $75,000 and they may have a $10-$15,000 signing bonus. That would not be too out of the ordinary. And then every year they can expect some sort of breeze that might be anywhere from 3% upward and a bonus of maybe 5000 or more I know, lots of kids are looking for jobs and can't find them, but this is a pretty standard scenario in New York City for those who do find jobs And then more experience workers, who knows. It depends on the company, the industry, the economy, and for the record, most jobs don't offer any kind of bonus.

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crunchyfoliage@reddit

I get a bonus for working during the week that the rest of the company has off. I also get an annual bonus of $100 for every year I've worked there

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BackgroundRate1825@reddit

That's not nothing, but it effectively amounts to an extra nickel per hour raise every year, and phrased that way, it's basically nothing. But a bonus is a bonus. Extra money is always welcome. Grats.

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crunchyfoliage@reddit

Oh yeah, it's not a great bonus by any means. But I've never had a job that's given me a bonus before this one so I'll take what I can get

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ophaus@reddit

My job offers the opportunity for me to contribute to a pot luck for my whole department.

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Turbowookie79@reddit

Construction management. 10% bonus every year, 10k a year vehicle allowance, gas card, haven’t paid for gas in five years. And unlimited PTO. Sounds great but the work life balance sucks and it’s super stressful.

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Chimney-Imp@reddit

12% of my annual salary in cold hard cash as a performance incentive

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bassistface199x99LvL@reddit

Got one today. $1200, to be paid out on 11/26, along with a $750 salary increase that takes effect next month. I’ll probably net like $750 or so but it’s a very nice gesture and a tremendous help during the holidays.

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Mysterious-Meat7712@reddit

Im a union electrician. I do not earn PTO, or have sick leave. My benefits package includes a wage increase to offset the missed time. After 8 hours is time and a half. Saturdays are time and a half. Sundays and holidays are double time. The company I work for just handed out our annual profit sharing bonus and each journeyman got $5k. I’m not sure what the apprentices got. Last year I got $2500. The three years before that, I worked for a non union contractor and we were lucky to get a “merry Christmas” or “happy 5 year anniversary”. They would provide the crew chick fil a breakfast sandwich’s on everyone’s birthday though. The company I worked at before that didn’t do anything all year but had a big company Christmas party. Two free drinks and dinner provided. Then a raffle. Of course it was always the kiss asses who won the raffles.

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Commercial_Count_584@reddit

What you guys get bonuses?

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SteakAndIron@reddit

I get a company car that I can use for personal use and they cover gas, oil and insurance. I get up to about 15 percent of my pay as a potential bonus.

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bramblefish@reddit

Depends on industry, job level, and position in the company. As role moves higher, most everything is negotiable. My background is in construction management. Perks can vary (wildly), company credit card, clothing allowances (executive level), phone, computer, car, car allowance, bonuses for company profitability, spot bonuses for specific accomplishments, retirement accounts (employer kicks in some level of matching), ownership options, etc etc etc. Like I said it varies, and varies wildly. What I listed above is just a touch on things that might be on the table. If you are desired, you can ask for quite a bit. Also, if you get those things, the pressure to preform is real, and can be crushing to many people. You never get anything "free".

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Maronita2025@reddit

I knew someone who worked two part-time jobs and the two agencies had a great relationship so one agency gave her benefits and the other agency reimbursed the other agency for half the benefits!

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BackgroundRate1825@reddit

My last job (engineering) we had a profit sharing plan where once a project was finished and the final invoice paid, 10% of the profit was split between the people who worked on it (weighted by hours spent). Some projects I got less than $5, other projects it was thousands. I made about $15k in these bonuses the last full year I worked there. Current job (also engineering) it's end-of-year bonuses calculated I have no idea how. Apparently last year the person who I replaced got about $8k. But the base salary is higher here. Also this year has been kinda slow for the company so I have no idea if we're getting anything.

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DeferredEntropy@reddit

I’m an attorney (associate, not partner)—we’re required to bill 1,950 hours per year and get a bonus for every 100 hours billed over that.

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SabrinaFaire@reddit

It varies wildly. Most jobs I've gotten nothing. When I have received something it's been a few hundred dollars.

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abuckfiddy@reddit

After taxes, my horseshit bonus is $156.83..... I can't stand it. All the higher ups get a 6-12% bonus, and I barely get a week of groceries.

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Taz9093@reddit

We got a $25 gift certificate to the company brand store where the cheapest thing was $27.99. lol

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cheaganvegan@reddit

I work in healthcare. I got Covid!

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Entire-Order3464@reddit

It depends on the job. Some people's bonuses are hundreds of thousands or millions. Some people's bonuses are zero or a 100$ gift certificate.

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jazzgrackle@reddit

Some jobs provide sign-on bonuses that usually kick in after 90 days. Christmas is 1.5X pay and I’ve seen it at 2x pay. Any hours worked past 40 in a 2 week period is 1.5X pay unless you’re on salary. PTO is a thing, I get 8 days! Then there’s 401K matching and stock options, but I don’t know if you’d count that as bonuses.

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AnUnexpectedUnicorn@reddit

My spouse and I have worked places that have zero monetary bonuses (maybe a pie or turkey for Christmas), and others that were set up to receive 50%+ bonus of your salary (that was awesome). It very widely varies. I've noticed a big thing lately is for companies to contribute to a HSA (Health Savings Account) on your behalf.

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notsosecretshipper@reddit

I got $20 in a Christmas card once.

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

Our overtime laws only cover hours over 40 and only below a certain salary threshold. Days of the week don’t matter. Personally, I’ve never had a job that gave any kind of bonus.

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RevolutionaryRow1208@reddit

In my 20 year career I've never worked anywhere that had bonuses. I think that was more of a thing in the 1980s and/or may be more of a thing where sales are involved, IDK. I've been in accounting and finance for 20 years. My organization does have some perks like providing 1 paid MH hour per week which is nice. We also have an exercise program you can sign up for and you get 30 minutes, 3x per week of exercise leave which I also take advantage of.

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ScytheFokker@reddit

I have a small company with less than 100 employees in 4 states. I give everyone a minimum of $1,500 per quarter. More if it is a good quarter, or if that particular employee went above and beyond for that quarter. If I have to make someone work on the weekend with short notice? Extra $500 on the paycheck, plus the OT. I have premium talent and compete against regional, national, and global firms. I have to pay well to keep the talent. Our small numbers mean our benefits are more expensive, naturally. So I have to supplement that with above market average compensation. Capitalism allows me to compete with the big boys. I love it! I try to be very careful when determining the workload requires any additional staff. You have to make sure you just arent in a small, busy period. The last thing I want is to hire someone when we are busy, get caught up, and then have to let them go. You have to take care of the people who attach their families' finances to your wagon, right? I'll also tell you that as the owner I have the 5th highest compensation package at my company. If someone has to take it on the chin at the end of the year it will always be me.

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sheimeix@reddit

Typically, the expectation is the bare minimum of what's required by your state or city law, with huge penalties if they violate them. Sign-up bonuses are sort of common, but usually a red flag that a company is bleeding staff and needs positions filled ASAP. They usually only pay after like, 6 or 9 months. I found this out when I had a $2000 sign-up bonus for a workplace a couple years back, the place was genuinely so miserable that my calling in once every week was seen as 'acceptable' by management. Performance bonuses are usually turned into annual raises, actual bonuses like that are usually middle management and up or very specialized positions. The tricky thing about labor laws in America is that they can vary by state, and even some cities will have additional laws. In New York state, you're owed a 30 minute lunch break at 6 hours, and the employer cannot tell you no. Most places I've worked make you take the lunch at around 4 hours so you can't get stuck on a task making you go over, or so you can't say they didn't offer it or whatever. My workplace has hour long lunches at designated times, a total of 30 minutes of paid break (they don't mind how you divvy up the 30 minutes), and doble pay for working holidays that my workplaces recognizes (federal holidays plus a couple extras). PTO and sick days are another big benefit, and my workplace is pretty generous with them. They're also willing to pay for certain relevant IT certifications for the current position or career development. My position doesn't have yearly/quarterly/etc bonuses, though.

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xannieh666@reddit

I think in a lot of cases...it depends on where you work and what kind if work you do. When my husband first started in his STEM field.....he didn't really make much ...let alone any sort of bonuses... 20 some years later his bonuses are almost what he started off at....On top of that he has 4 weeks of paid time off and pretty good health insurance....... which he needs for all the stress he's under. 9 more years until his retirement...and we're definitely counting .

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SaintsFanPA@reddit

I’ve switched to a lifestyle job that is lower stress, but had a job before where the stock comp and cash bonus routinely was in the $75-$125k range.

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sageamericanidiot@reddit

I have an amazing employer that provides bi annual bonuses. On top of a competitive salary, decent 401k match, 6 weeks paid vacation, 2 weeks sick pay and all federal holidays paid, I also receive 14k in bonuses. However, speaking with friends and family, this is not their experience.

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qu33nof5pad35@reddit

Depends on how you score. The most I’ve gotten was 4k and I thought that was a lot.

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imthe5thking@reddit

I’m a bartender and cook at a dive/sports bar that a family friend owns. I automatically get a $50 bill if I come in last minute for a sick coworker or something. All of our tips are cash and split evenly between whoever’s working for that shift. And every shift we work, we get one free menu item. For example if I get off at 10pm, and I start making a large pizza for myself at 9:55, I don’t have to pay a dime for it and I have free leftover pizza at home for like 3 days.

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digawina@reddit

This varies too widely to be properly answered. I worked in a call center once and our bonus for a good quarter was we each got a blow pop put on our desks. At my company now, it's based on company performance and your job role and can vary from a percentage of your salary (which can vary widely depending on role, up to obscene percentages), to people at the top pulling in more in bonus than their annual salary.

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JustSomeGuy_56@reddit

The best perk I ever got was free gas for my car. The company existed to provide a support structure for a handful of commodities traders. We crunched numbers to help some guys decide when to buy & sell pork bellies or frozen orange juice. During the 1973 oil embargo, the traders didn’t want to waste time sitting on line to buy gas, so the hired some local college kids. That wasn’t very efficient. So they installed fuel tanks & pumps in the backyard - regular, premium, diesel and for the one guy who collected classic muscle cars, leaded premium. If you needed fuel, you just dropped your keys in box at the front door and a guy would fill your tank.

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Effective-One6527@reddit

Sign on bonus for RNs near me is $7,500 if you c an stick it out for around 6 months and 18,000 student loan reimbursement.

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Infamous-Yellow-8357@reddit

I work at a hotel. We get a $15 bonus if mentioned by by name in a good review. We get double pay on holidays. And we can rent rooms at this chain of hotels for half price. That's it.

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OldRaj@reddit

The largest bonus I’ve received, quarterly, was about $20,000. That was exceptional. I know a guy who is an investment banker and he had a $700,000 bonus one year. The norm for bonuses is much lower.

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jessek@reddit

It varies so much there is no one answer.

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CVetta@reddit

Your answer is applicable to almost every post on this subreddit, but is useless. At least give some broad info.

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OldeTimeyShit@reddit

At my company, senior and management level roles get from 10-25% of their base salary in bonus. But this depends on company performance. Also if have received stock grants on my 2 and 4 year anniversaries.

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charlieq46@reddit

I am in construction and we get a safety bonus, and an end of year bonus. In addition, we are an what is known as an ESOP so we are given shares in the company as well. Other perks include my company vehicle and that they pay for all employee health insurance. PTO and sick time are standard, as are overtime/weekend/holiday wage increases.

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Expert_Potential_661@reddit

I’ve worked at 3 companies whose typical bonuses were about 6 months’ pay, another gave about 4 months and a few who gave none. They are usually based on reaching certain business or revenue goals.

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Fnthsch592@reddit

I once worked at a car dealership that would give every employee a $100 bill at Christmas. Current job in the repair industry doesn’t offer any bonuses that I’m aware of. We used to get free breakfast and have raffles every now and then, but that stopped years ago.

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yozaner1324@reddit

I get a Christmas bonus equal to 20% of my salary, adjusted based on my performance and the overall performance of the company that year. Last year, I got slightly over the 20% target. Otherwise it's just normal compensation and benefits. At least they pay all my health insurance premiums, though it's a high deductible plan.

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Aggietopmedic@reddit

I got a $35k sign on bonus, to be paid out in 3 installments…came with a 2 year contract and a promissory note. Rumor is large retention bonuses are being discussed, but they will have a three year contract. I’d really rather just have a higher hourly rate.

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nevermindthatyoudope@reddit

We had an all hands meeting today where someone brought up bonuses, the response was "Don't underestimate the value of a heartfelt thank you." I guess I'll wrap that up and put it under the tree for my daughter.

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Maurice_Foot@reddit

One time in 40+ years of work, I received a $200 Christmas bonus. I was working at a single owner computer repair shop (6 employees) in the late '90s and I guess we did very good that year. Boss took all of us and our spouse/partners out at a fancy restaurant and handed out envelopes at the end. The next year he had trouble meeting payroll at the end of the year. Regular corporate work, never got a bonus.

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RoseRedd@reddit

I am a teacher. We get a new school t-shirt every fall and a box of treats during teacher appreciation week.

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nogueydude@reddit

We get a solid yearly bonus as salaried employees. Depends on tenure and how well the company does. Between 5-50k after the year is closed out. Hourly gets quarterly bonuses. $1 for every hour worked safely and a production bonus based on productivity. Typically $750-1500 per quarter.

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K_N0RRIS@reddit

Depends on the business/organization. Non profit or state/municipal jobs typically offer no bonuses. Private businesses might offer several kinds of bonuses all depending on their yearly revenue.

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Justmakethemoney@reddit

Not only offer no bonuses, you typically aren’t allowed to accept gifts either. I’m a government law librarian, and on more than one occasion I’ve had patrons try and give us something small—like a $5 Starbucks gift card, for assisting them. We aren’t allowed to accept such gifts, nor would I. Normally it’s because we handled a request thoroughly and at a speed much faster than people expect when interacting with a government agency.

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PghSubie@reddit

I got a 20% bonus a decade ago

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WinterRevolutionary6@reddit

By working in an academic lab, they have graciously (unknowingly) supplied me with 70% ethanol for cleaning as well as 50 ml tubes. Other than that, my benefit is chill hours and also insane hours depending on what experiment is going on

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tee2green@reddit

Interesting fact that most people are unaware of: For publicly traded companies, the SEC REQUIRES the Board of Directors to publish an Annual Proxy Statement that describes in great detail how the company’s highest executives get paid. The quick synopsis is they receive a cash salary, an annual cash bonus, and many different layers of stock compensation. It’s usually based on the company’s performance relative to other publicly traded peer companies. At that level, it’s a lot more stock than cash for them, especially if the stock had a good year. For regular employees, most people just get simple cash salary and a very small annual cash bonus at the end of the year. If you’re lucky, your annual cash bonus is based on a percentage of your salary, so it can be substantial. And if you’re very lucky, you get stock-based compensation, though that’s usually reserved for the executives. Big tech companies have vacuumed up a lot of the young talent in this company by making one simple change to their compensation structure: they offer stock-based compensation to everyone. Now young people get the sweet juicy stock-based compensation that’s old companies used to only give to their executives. There’s volatility in stock compensation of course, but the upside is much bigger than flat cash.

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OO_Ben@reddit

It definitely depends on your job in the company and your seniority level too. Like I'm "technically" middle management at my job even though I only have one employee lol. I'm a BI Engineer so my role is very stable in terms of pay. But I do get a Christmas bonus each year. Depending on how the company does it's usually around $1500-2000. Nothing crazy it's like a 2% bonus basically. We've had a really good year this year though, so we'll see where I land. I could make more for sure jumping ship, but I love what I do and the people I work with. Being 100% remote is very nice, and I live in Kansas which is a low cost of living state. But in my past life I worked in sales. In those roles we were 100% commission based. Stressful but the money is good if you're selling. I would get performance bonuses based on my sales there. If you get into corporate sales, your bonuses can be very large too. There are corporate sales people making seven figures at the top like 1% of sales people. If you're in senior leadership, a lot of your pay can be based on your bonus at the end of the year. Like five-six figure bonuses that sort of thing depending on the size of the company. That's ultimately my goal at the end of the day. End game career wise for me is something like CDO (chief data officer) or CDAO (chief data analytics officer) which are newer titles out there (since data analytics is still a pretty new field), or possibly CIO (chief information officer). Overall wages are much higher here, and in general if you're in a good union job or good white collar job, you're going to have excellent benefits. Like I see people in Europe bragging about not paying to see their doctor (while being taxed at a 10%+ rate for that privilege I might add....). On my insurance plan that costs me ~$2000 a year, I also don't pay to see my doctor. For reference, $2k per year is about 2% of my salary. And that is a relatively stable cost, so say I start making $200k, that $2k per year becomes 1% of my annual salary at that point.

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Large-Delay-1123@reddit

The higher the salary, the higher the bonus. Had a neighbor whose yearly corporate bonus was higher than his previous salary teaching at a university.

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robertwadehall@reddit

It varies widely by company. At my current remote tech job, I get unlimited PTO, 15% bonus (based on personal, team and company performance), the usual health plan and benefits, life insurance policy, 401K plan w/ 5% employer match, stock purchase plan, and a sizable quarterly stock grant on top of my base salary.

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joepierson123@reddit

Performance bonuses are only common for upper management

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AdmiralKong@reddit

One year when my company was riding especially high they gave out significant stock options to top engineering talent and when I it vested, I cashed it out for roughly 300k and bought a house. This is toward the extreme end but it does happen at American companies.

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Dr_Watson349@reddit

Depending on how the company does I get can get up to an additional 40% of my salary as a bonus.

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Weightmonster@reddit

Jobs often offer life insurance. In some cases, it’s paid for my the company. That sounds like what Google is doing.

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SufficientProject273@reddit

Bonus what? No clue what that is.

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Big-Profit-1612@reddit

I'm in technology. * **Signing bonus:** You get a bonus for joining the company. This is generally for people who are highly skilled, in high demand, or a lot of potential. It's really not uncommon to hear $10,000-$20,000 bonus. You have to stay at the company for at least a year (or whatever the contract says) or they will claw it back. * **Annual bonus:** You get a cash bonus for your performance. For me, I get like a $20,000 bonus or so. * **Stocks/Equity:** I get like $100,000 in RSUs (restricted stock units) a year (vests over 4 years) that is based on performance. * **Referral bonus:** If you refer someone and they get hired, you get a bonus. I've received a $10,000 bonus before for referring someone. If I die prematurely, my RSUs vest immediately to my beneficiaries.

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IGotFancyPants@reddit

I got a bonus for passing the CPA exam, and another for helping on transitioning out office to new accounting software. They were not large bonuses, but I didn’t expect one at all so that’s ok.

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TehWildMan_@reddit

Low level plant workers get part of my employer's annual company performance benefit. Mine for working half a year was $2200. Hours after 40 are 1.6x, hours after 60 (only by prior approval unless shit hits the fan) are 2x base hourly rate. We get a total of 2 hours break per 12 hour [nominally 7:30am-8pm] shift, 1.5 of which is paid.

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Oomlotte99@reddit

I get between 10 and 13k annually based on factors related to company performance and client retention.

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Dpg2304@reddit

It's wildly different across industries and companies. I am an account manager for a software company. I receive a quarterly bonus based on performance that ranges from $8000-$15000, and an annual bonus that's based on company performance. That can be anywhere from $0-$10000.

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Avocadoavenger@reddit

If something happens to me they will pay my husband for two years of my salary as a benefit. I receive other bonuses as well.

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mrsrobotic@reddit

My old company gives employees with 15 years of service two free air tickets to anywhere in the world. I left for a different job long before that but my colleagues who stayed got theirs and really enjoyed it.

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TalkativeRedPanda@reddit

I get salary bonus each year, depending on earnings. It can range from 0% of my salary if we don't hit target, to hypothetically 12%, but most years it is 3-5%. My current job doesn't have tuition reimbursement, but my last job would reimburse up to $10k per year for an approved degree. Most of my company is remote, and they occasionally send us stuff. I got a fleece jacket in the mail today from my company for hitting an earnings milestone. Sometimes they send UberEats gift cards, or Crumbl cookies. Last year I got a really great backpack.

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SirTwitchALot@reddit

I get a yearly bonus, and the amount is specified in my contract. It has clauses that can reduce the amount based on my performance (something I have control over) and the company's performance (something I don't have much control over.) In a good year I'll get as much as 10% of my salary as a bonus. Most years it's 5 or less. In a bad year I'll get nothing.

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Lotus190@reddit

I don’t get overtime pay because my salary is over a certain federal threshold. In the 3 years I’ve been at my job, I’ve gotten 1 or 2 bonuses and 3 or 4 raises.

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Temporary_Linguist@reddit

Michelin has its US headquarters in South Carolina. They offer free tires as a bonus. Frequency is based in part on length of service. I've had a quarterly bonus, but more often no bonus.

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ifallallthetime@reddit

When I was hourly, I'd get 1.5x pay for more than 8 hours in a day, 2x for more than 12 hours, 1.5x for 6th day of work and 2x for 7th day of work. This mirrors California overtime laws but the 2x on the 7th day was my company policy. In Arizona for instance, you just get 1.5x over 40 hours in a week, so you could obstenisbly work 2 20 hour days in a row without getting overtime. However, companies are free to pay their own overtime rules as long as they meet the minimum Now that I'm salary, I don't get any overtime, but I get a yearly bonus of 10% of my salary in July. I also get 5 weeks of paid vacation a year and 2 weeks of sick time. A lot of vacation time at good jobs starts at 2 weeks a year and expands as you get more years of service

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unknowingbiped@reddit

My best job, i have now is usually around $1000 and we get yearly raise that have been around 3% But I did have a job where my yearly raise was $0.07 an hour. I would have preferred they just spit on my face.

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Calamitous_Waffle@reddit

It depends a lot on what qualifications someone offers. As an American working in England and Austria in textiles engineering/mfg, Americans got paid significantly more for the same work, accounting for insurance and retirement. That's a bonus. So if there's a flat bonus across the world, I would get paid more, since my salary was higher. We also got profit sharing, which isn't so common these days. PTO is shit compared to Europe unless you're senior. There were many more PhDs in Europe, but that doesn't translate well to mfg. That helped with Europe salary for sure. Many other things were comparable. Our overtime isn't capped, if that matters to you.

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river-running@reddit

I have a very unique one: I work in commercial composting and we get as much free compost as we can use.

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reflectorvest@reddit

My current job gave me a signing bonus that was paid out when I hit the 30 day mark after my start date. I had to agree to pay it back if I leave within a year though.

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ABelleWriter@reddit

I get a year end bonus, depends on finances of where I work as to how much it is.

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NVJAC@reddit

What perks? In the late 90s I got a Christmas bonus that was effectively a 53rd week of pay, but fuck all from 1999-2022. The job I've had since late 2022 though, we have quarterly profit-sharing bonuses. It hasn't happened every quarter though.

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mr_jugz@reddit

hmmm… i got a crisp $100 bill from a restaurant i worked at during christmas season. some of my relatives who work in trades get frozen turkeys for thanksgiving. my current job gave me $10k (after taxes 5k) last year as a end of year bonus. a family my dad worked for gave him several hundred dollars for christmas every year and took us out to eat at their restaurant

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killingourbraincells@reddit

I get $1k each Christmas and about 6 attorneys willing to take a case for me pro-bono.

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tsukiii@reddit

It depends. I’ve gotten signing bonuses (usually like $5k), bonuses for getting specific licenses, and I get ~15% of my annual salary as an annual bonus. Annual bonus is tied to company and individual performance, but I usually get a bit more than 15%.

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turtlespice@reddit

I work in higher ed. We don’t get bonuses (but we have decent benefits to make up for the low pay!)

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cool_chrissie@reddit

The company I work for does a 10% end of year bonus that’s tied to our sales goals. During covid we got 21% one year. It’s a start up and so we’ve had contracts that grant bonuses if there is a change in control. Based on tenure to got a % of the sale price. We have spot bonuses for going above and beyond. Also $1500 do referring another employee.

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Accomplished_Elk4332@reddit

Typically only CEOs and such get bonuses and it’s a crazy amount of money (millions) going to the 1% and then those people tell the rest of the company that the can’t afford to pay the workers more who are actually doing the work on a daily basis.

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Drew707@reddit

This is too deep of a subject for a single comment to cover. Comp structures can vary wildly between companies, industries, roles, and levels. Bonuses in general are usually individual or organizational. Like if a single employee hit or exceeded a target, usually quarterly or annually, but sometimes monthly, they might receive x% or $y more of their standard period pay. Organizational bonuses are similar but for everyone if the company performs to or above a target. Salaried employees are usually what is referred to as "exempt" and not subject to overtime laws. How this plays out for the employee really depends on the company culture and seasonal trends. I've had roles where for part of the year I am working 60 hours a week, where others I'm showing up for 20 and that's really just to shoot the shit and check in on things. Most people do not have employment contracts, so if you work in a place that treats exempt employees like 1.8 FTE, you are free to walk out the door and never return again. Conversely, aside from certain equal employment opportunity reasons, a worker can be let go nearly just as easily. My SO works for an incredibly worker-friendly tech company. Some of her perks include free health insurance not just for her, but me as well even though we aren't married (pretty rare), restricted stock units, professional development cash, unlimited PTO plus all federal holidays, four random mandatory days off, a week off in summer, and a week off in winter, AND a free professional coaching service. Plus, she has a typical SFBA tech salary. I am sure I am forgetting something else. Then you get into things like commissions, spiffs, and residuals if you work in a sales or sales enablement role.

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BioDriver@reddit

I got a $10k signing bonus when I took my current job and used to get a 15-20% bonus based on company performance. Now I get a bonus based on the amount of new business I bring in each year.

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cdsbigsby@reddit

My company offers a profit sharing bonus every spring. Essentially it's if the company was profitable in the previous year, you get a bonus as a percentage of that profit depending on your individual performance. Usually at least a few thousand dollars with the theoretical potential to be over $10k. I also got a $200 bonus for completing an optional certification course.

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mizuaqua@reddit

Restricted stock units - company gives you company stock shares on a set schedule so you get a fraction of total shares after each year you work there, typical vesting schedule is 4 years so you’d get 25% of the total every year. If the company’s stock is publicly traded, it has an actual monetary value when you sell those shares. Retirement investment match for pre-income tax paycheck deductions, the retirement investment fund type is called a 401(k) so if you choose to take money out of your paycheck to put into this fund, that amount isn’t subject to income tax. The company will match up to some max amount in stock shares or money deposited into the account. If you don’t elect to invest for retirement in this way you do not get this employer-funded bonus. There are other things called stock options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which depends on the future company performance and the worker’s risk tolerance.

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GrimSpirit42@reddit

Annual bonus based on a matrix that is per-defined. You're bonus is dependent upon how well you meet your goals. Also usually another bonus that closely matches the first one that gets put directly into my 401K.

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Penguin_Life_Now@reddit

In the US you tend to find things fall into a number of categories. Such benefits for working in an otherwise lower paying government job, this could be city, state or even federal government, this could be health insurance, more paid vacation days, student loan forgiveness for working in an under served area, etc. A similar situation is recruiting health care professionals to move to such rural / under served areas, though this often comes in the form of recruitment bonuses, and promise to pay off student loans in exchange for promises to stay in the area for X years. A man my son grew up with recently became a doctor and in exchange for agreeing to work in an a hospital in an under served community about 50 miles from where he grew up for I think 5 years, they are paying off his medical school student loans. Beyond this most such bonuses are limited to upper end talent recruitment, and performance based bonuses that mostly occur in sales jobs.

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Ok-Race-1677@reddit

Not part of our bonuses but we make twice as much from the get go and pay less taxes

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LoveYerBrain2@reddit

I think it varies a lot between industries and employers. I used to work in finance and annual bonuses in that field were often around 100% of your entire yearly salary, based partly on the firm's performance and partly on the employee's performance.

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Several_Celebration@reddit

15% annual bonus

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NickOutside@reddit

At the jobs I've had with bonuses they've usually been equivalent to 15%-20% of my annual salary as a "target bonus" paid out once annually. They aren't guaranteed; if the company has a middling to bad year you will almost certainly get nothing or a token ~1%. They are sometimes split between cash and stock options, and often had at least a partial "golden handcuff" stipulation. Eg. Half the stock bonus would only "vest" over the next several years to where it was fully mine. If you leave before then, you lose the unvested portion.

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cofeeholik75@reddit

Stock options. Usually you need to stay on job for 5 years for them to be fully vested. Long term bonus: I worked at several ‘start ups’ back in the 80s-90s. example: I would get 5000 shares at $1.50. I would need to work 5 years to be able to ‘buy’ my shares & sell them. Company goes public. After 5 years my stock is trading at $20/share. If I want I can now buy my stock (total $7500) and turn aground and sell it for $100K.

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Long-Repair9582@reddit

It depends heavily on industry, most workers probably get no bonus. I work in consulting, and my bonus is often 30% or so of my annual pay. Last year it was $73k.

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JimmyGodoppolo@reddit

It depends on the type of job. It's traditional for pretty much all employers to offer some time of Christmas-time bonus (which is a trope seen in a lot of American movies). For corporate jobs, it's pretty standard to get at least an annual bonus (either a % or flat-$ amount), that oftentimes will coincide with Christmas/end of year. On top of that, sometimes you will see specific bonuses in specific industries -- sales get bonuses based on performance (aka commission), in-demand jobs (like nursing or specific types of engineering) may offer a "signing" or "sign on" bonus (where you get a lump sum for accepting the offer). Some of the more creative ones -- consulting will oftentimes pay for you to get a MBA (or reimburse you if you got one -- which can be upwards of a couple hundred thousand), tech companies will have specific company bonuses (Facebook pays you $4000 per child you have, Netflix offers a year of parental leave, Facebook offers (offered?) payments towards laundry service), etc.

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cagestage@reddit

I get a longevity bonus every year (an extra week worth of pay for each year I've been with the company). They will also occasionally give random bonuses when the company is doing well.

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imissher4ever@reddit

Some companies offer yearly bonuses and stock bonuses. When I worked in the private sector I received a quarterly bonus and a yearly stock bonus. I worked for a couple fairly large companies. I currently work in the public sector. No bonuses, but much better benefits.

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GrandTheftBae@reddit

I got at least 10% of my base salary in March, and stocks as monetary bonuses

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la-anah@reddit

I work in tech. I've never received a sign-on bonus in 35 years in the business. But I've always worked for mid-size or smaller companies. Most companies I have worked for offer a possible 10% yearly bonus. This means that I can get **up to** 10% of my salary as a bonus. Realistically, getting your full bonus is rare. Last year I got 20% of my bonus, so 2% of my salary. Nice, but not exactly life changing. The amount of bonus paid is usually more tied to company profits than to any individual work effort.

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imissher4ever@reddit

Some companies offer yearly bonuses and stock bonuses. When I worked in the private sector I received a quarterly bonus and a yearly stock bonus. I worked for a couple fairly large companies. I currently work in the public sector. No bonuses, but much better benefits.

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Determined-over50@reddit

Annual bonus up to 20%, based on how well company does.

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Folksma@reddit

When I graduated, I got a bonus of $2,000 from my company

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