Post your level, location and 2013 bonus info below. Here is mine: Equity Research Associate, Houston, TX: $11K bonus (and $3K profit sharing)
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I got a large bonus and huge stock options. Having a golden parachute, control of little people's lives, a possible seat on the board of a company for retirement due to the club I belong to, and being able to ride off into the sunset at any time - Priceless. PR
Yes and Florida is an at will employment state. While most of the managers are pretty dumb now, they probably will not write down "talked about salary" on the pink slip. More like, position not longer needed, or did you hear about the layoffs already?
Thanks for that very valuable legal info Matlock.
Just to clarify: It is perfectly legal to tell your salary and bonus to others. It is illegal for companies to impose any pay secrecy policies.
Excerpted from http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies-at-work-often-illegal-and-misunderstood
Under the National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, private-sector employees have the right to engage in "concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."
The language is somewhat antiquated, but according to Estlund, "it means that you and your co-workers get to talk together about things that matter to you at work."
Compensation is one of those things you can talk about. The National Labor Relations Board, says Estlund, "has long held that these pay secrecy policies that many employers have in writing violate the National Labor Relations Act."
mine's bigger!
I'm usually not the type to brag but my bonus is HUGE.
Over 7 years, the average has always been:
3% ($2.5k)
2.5% bonus (around $3k)
One year - just one a while back - I had a manager give me a 7% raise and 5% bonus based on my review and how much less I was paid compared to my peers. Managers are stuck too...they know the pay discrepancy. If you're $10k behind your peers, do the math to see how long it would take them with average bonuses and raises to catch you up to them.
2% raise, $6200 bonus, can't remember profit sharing.
Seriously, this is a great way to empower ourselves, that's why management fears it so much. If people find out they're making less, they will leave. And then they'll have to implement pay equity.
So..IT $3600 bonus. The ususal for profit sharing, etc.
Seriously, this is a great way to empower ourselves, that's why management fears it so much. If people find out they're making less, they will leave. And then they'll have to implement pay equity.
So..IT $3600 bonus. The ususal for profit sharing, etc.
Market Analyst, West, ~$40K (total comp), no bonus
keep it generic. if you give your specific job title, they can probably narrow down who posted what. but if you say ops, it, FA, whatever and give a general idea of your area, it may be easier to stay anonymous. also, keep the numbers and percentages generic.
So saying I am a Financial Compliance Advisor II with $2,000 bonus and a 2.1% raise cannot be traced down to a person or two in RJ? You know they have computers now a days right? Not saying you shouldn't do it, just saying it is really unwise. Just going to the organizational chart with a Financial Compliance Advisor II search will narrow it down to a few percentage points of people in RJ. Looking up those numbers for a few people is not hard.
engineer (dev), bonus 2000, stock and profit 4000 (combined)
Screw management... Here you go, it's miserable - Financial Compliance Advisor II - Cash Bonus = a bit lower than 2K, stock around 0.5k, Profit Sharing 0.5K
seems like all replies were written by the same person from management who wants to maintain secrecy of bonus info. i am not posting mine but bella has no way of finding who posts here. all of us posting from verizons cellular network have the same ip address, so how in the world would bella know who posted. here is my ip address, god f..ing luck resolving it 2610:1016:b029:f520:74a4:28e:4ef1:e0f2
Mine: $900,00OK normal operating bonus. $2.1M axing associates to boost the bottom line bonus-- P.R., Saint Petersburg, FL
Dear Anonymous37819,
Please place your email address in there too. Any initials to you name will be helpful too.
Love,
Bella "The Ax" Loykhter Allaire
Ditto
Do they really think we are that stupid? I hope the original poster is not that stupid. If he is, it was nice seeing you around RJ.
You are lying. Nobody is that stupid to place that data down. It will be easy to track. Everybody knows Andy Zolper and Bella are monitoring this site at RJ to hang some people since they are thin skinned.