bonuses

How can the owners get good ROI if much of the return is spent on salaries/benefits/bonuses?

Without a formal time for review, how will they build a formal time for pay evaluation and bonuses?

With the current stock raise, my annual compensation comes out to be a bit over 200k/year before bonuses.

And overall it's quite a fun experience to pay for bonuses (optional gameplay or cosmetic items) in both games.

There is a lot of enjoyment in earning bonuses over time rather than getting everything at once.

HFT firms pay very well for systems and HPC developers, especially when you count the bonuses.

So much so that banks and payment networks are willing to give out large bonuses to influence your buying behavior.

Many companies are paying hefty salaries/bonuses to move people in from out of state.

Well, everyone gets nothing except the people with the retention bonuses - the employees.

In my view, the process has lost that purpose since it became a zero-sum game for determining raises, bonuses, and even layoffs.

This put enough pressure on the Atari management to give release bonuses and $0.10/cartridge royalties that made a bunch of the developers millionaires.

Terming them bonuses is actually wrongheaded, considering employees expect to get that money.

In particular the accusations of racism regarding her peer bonuses, telling the "known racist" to "fuck off", etc.

Bonuses are on the offer letter...it's not like people show up their first day after accepting the offer and are told, "by the way, you'll get $X/yr bonus." They're actually concessions made by the employee during the negotiation phase to give the company flexibility over a portion of their salary.

Maybe this employer didn't have an employment lawyer draft or review the contract for them, and the law holds that the employee can treat it as an "interest free, unsecured loan with no minimum payment and no unspecified term." Or maybe they don't really care about $35K or whether the employees they give signing bonuses uphold their end of the agreement.

Bonuses are basically a portion of an employee's salary that can be rescinded at the company's whim.

Bonuses are based on the firm's and employee's performance as well as a multiplier based on how much salary they took.

* The whole story leaves me with the impression that she had ownership/credit for the spreadsheet, and that is why she was specifically being targeted with the rejected Peer Bonuses.