We don’t receive a holiday bonus, but we do receive Stability Pay. After working for the county 5 years, you get a lump sum equal to 2.5% of your annual pay. Every year afterwards it increases .5% to a maximum of $1200.00. Sounds nice, for a long termer like myself; however, they now include it in your first December regular payroll, so it’s taxed at a higher rate. This year I actually brought home a little over $600.
No. I was a public schoolteacher, and the bonuses would have come out of tax money. The taxpayers, including me, would not have been happy with that.
We get to select a company logo shirt or gym bag from a catalog, so there is that.
No. We used to get a gift certificate to buy a turkey or ham, but they stopped doing that last year.
We are giving our nanny an extra week’s pay. An excellent nanny is worth it.
Getting a $25 bonus is worse than nothing. Nothing is - meh. $25 is an insult.
And if you see it as irrational (after all, $25 is better than nothing), see the Ultimatum Game.
My employees get $100 - $300 according to what kind of year we (the economy) has had.
My one pet peculiarity is that the amount has to be after taxes. So if I’m giving $200, the check is for $200 and my manager figures out what amount has to be given to wind up with $200 after taxes.
I’ve worked for three different employers who gave a week’s pay.
Do I work for a different federal government than everybody else? I got a small cash bonus plus 3 bonus days of paid leave. Okay, this didn’t start until quite recently, after 25 or so years of nothing.
As for Christmas time off, the President usually gives most federal employees Monday off if Christmas is a Tuesday, Friday off if Christmas is a Thursday, and I think a half-day on Tuesday if Christmas is a Wednesday is a regular thing now. There’s nothing new about this policy; Truman gave Friday 12/26 off in 1952.
Cash bonus and leave? What dept does that? I was DoD for 37 years, and never ever got any kind of cash bonus related to the holidays. I did get a few cash performance awards, which is a bonus of sorts, but they were related to specific projects.
I work with partners and we “bonus” any extra profits each month. This happens about 5 times per year.
and it looks like we will have some bonus cash in December.
When I worked in the corporate sector my employer gave out a bonus in March with the annual pay raises.
No holiday bonus but there is an annual pay review in March where they check to make sure salaries across the same pay bands are ‘normalized’ (i.e. that people doing the same work are getting paid roughly the same as adjusted for seniority etc) and adjust stragglers upwards. They also do the annual performance reviews at that time and we sometimes get a bonus (or even a pay increase) dependent on how the previous year went.
Ironically the place where I made the least amount of money in regular salary gave us the best bonus: 1 week’s salary, plus they threw us a very nice Christmas party.
Most of my career has been working for either the federal government and now (indirectly) the state, though, so no cash bonuses there. We do get a party and maybe a little bit of extra time off, depending on when the actual holidays fall.
This year, though, they’re shutting the place down for the entire week between Christmas and New Year’s and we’ll be required to use some of our own personal time off on one of those weekdays, so it’s actually costing us something this year.
Our bonuses are tied to how well we did during the fiscal year, which ended on 9/30. Everyone who meets a minimum number of documents processed gets a certain percentage of their annual income with their first paycheck after Thanksgiving. Some of us, like myself, get a second bonus based on quality of work during the fiscal year.
Both bonuses have two (IIRC) ranks; the higher the rank, the bigger the percentage of one’s annual income is awarded. If one doesn’t meet the minimum, one gets bupkis and might even be tagged for retraining.
I’m a fed, too. Find yourself a production-oriented agency. 
Department of the Army - and it’s more of an annual performance bonus than something that everybody gets. It might be just a coincidence that I get it in early December.
As for Christmas-based closures:
Friday 12/26 has been a day off since at least 1952
Monday 12/24 has been a day off since at least 1956, except in 1984 for some reason (also, 1990 was only a half-day off)
The half-day on Tuesday 12/24 happened twice - in 1957, and in 2002
Obama gave a half-day on Thursday 12/24 in 2015
There have been two New Year’s Eve closures: Eisenhower gave a half-day in 1957, and Nixon a full day in 1973
One of the reasons we give good bonuses is because we realize the base salary we pay is moderate. So most years, everyone gets a $5,000 to $10,000 bonus, and we give a great xmas party too.
Well, I actually have a proper job this holiday season, so every paycheck kind of feels like a bonus!
Yep. Got a €240 card which is taken almost everywhere and an extra day added to my leave quota.
Oh and I’m finished in 30mins and won’t be back till the 3rd 
I got a $25 gift card to Best Buy.