Looking through my team tonight, it appears that we are nearly fully funded. Merit is 2.5-3.0% and bonuses at 100%. Stock seemed a bit lower, but not too crazy.
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Haha. I think I know exactly the manager you’re referencing (JF?) if so, definitely deficit as a manager and as a human. Cannot fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Zero respectability.
@xn What are you talking about? The compensation discussions with employees won’t occur until 5-6 weeks from now. Are you talking about the year end review discussion?
@ty bonuses are supposed to reflect work completed in the previous year. Any manager who short changes someone who also lost their livelihood deserves all the bad karma they have coming.
I meant before the Feb deadline.
@ty ok, my compensation review meeting was abruptly canceled. It had already been rescheduled, now it's canceled.
My department was given a Feb deadline for VRP. I am now really scared that I will be JE even before the deadline on 1/29.
I was counting on that bonus to pay my taxes.
@g6 you will still get your bonus. Where you might get sc--wed is with unethical managers who under allocate the JE bonuses and redistribute to others. They don't care what JEs get since they won't have to look them in the eye when it's handed out. Unfortunately managers in my area actually did this. Disgusting.
@t8 This is completely wrong. Bonuses were funded at 97.5% in operations.Merit increases were a little under 3%.
My department is looking at 1-2% bonuses and no merit increases. Only Sales is looking at anything higher.
@hb just lay me off put me out of my misery. Doing the work of 3 people it feels.
Those laid off after 9/30 will receive a prorated bonus.
It’s weird that the bonus pool is nearly fully funded but Cigna is about to lay off 15-20% of employees over the next couple months. It sounds like mixed messages. But I guess those of us who are being laid off will get sc--w’d on their bonuses, even though they are supposed to be for 2025 performance.
4500 55ish and up VRP. Another 2400 laid off. That could be 4600 gone.
is that across the board for all departments?
That doesn’t mean that’s what you get. Useless VPs just sit there and play the excel sheet game and minus and add bonuses as they please with whatever emotionally deficit whim they have that day. Looking at you PNW network management—- you su-k at your job and being a human - and you know it.
That’s much less than the average of 3.4% projected in September.
https://worldatwork.org/publications/workspan-daily/conference-board-projects-3-4-u-s-pay-increase-budgets-for-2026?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=publications&utm_term=ws-daily-article&utm_content=2025-10-01-pub-ws-daily
https://www.imercer.com/articleinsights/projected-2026-annual-merit-increases
We’re probably getting a decent merit only because there will be a lot less of us around by March to receive it.