# Year-End Bonuses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/year-end-bonuses/45047>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 11, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/year-end-bonuses/45047 "2000-12-11T18:21:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/year-end-bonuses/45047/21 "2000-12-15T01:22:11Z")

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Our bonus this year is that we made it another 12 months without getting laid off. Oh, and we got a turkey. Gotta love the aerospace industry.

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**Author:** ![webmastr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@webmastr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/webmastr)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/year-end-bonuses/45047/22 "2000-12-15T07:02:08Z")

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My bonus for the past couple of years has been equivalent to 100% or more of my base salary (my base salary is in the low six-figures range). Other companies in my field also tend to give similiar bonuses, plus housing allowances, etc, that could put the ‘perks’ up to 150% of the base salary.

But I have a hunch that this is sort of sector-specific…

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