Work Christmas Bonus

AckwelFoley

For those fortunate to be employed, do you receive a Christmas Bonus on top of your salary?

Vouchers? Extra pay?

Is your Bonus performance based? Would you consider Christmas Bonus to be something expected?

During the 25 years I've worked, for different employers the usual would be a weeks wages Extra..taxed. or some offered vouchers

I never plan in it coming in but it's nice to get

Worked for the odd miserable kernt that would give you 50 quid voucher for Supervalue

L1011

Annual bonus is in September for some inexplicable reason so we get nothing now. Did work in a firm with one once which was replaced with a voucher.

catrionanic

No Christmas bonus where I work. They wouldn't give you a penny more than they had to for anything though - no sick pay, maternity pay, pension, etc.

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339490#Comment_118339490

There is some tax benefit I think from getting a voucher, potentially they're not taxable but I'm open to correction

Dial Hard

We get our annual bonus in December if it's payable, but because it's based on company performance as well as your own, it's not always assured. We got nothing last year, I got 10% this year.

Other places I've worked would give a voucher at Christmas, I've seen anything from €50 to €250 given. I've also worked in places where you'd be lucky to get a Thank You card and a single Cadbury's Hero. So no, definitely not a given.

JPup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339521#Comment_118339521

Yeah not taxable up to €500.

igCorcaigh

I'm less than 6 months into my job, and everyone (<15 staff) received €500, which I thought was very generous.

PmMeUrDogs

Few hundred quid on a prepay visa, performance bonus at a pretty decent percent of my base and was informed I'm getting a raise this week - only had one a few months ago when I was promoted so it was a very pleasant surprise.

I've never received a bonus from this company before, or any other company. Guess working your way up leads to the bonuses

LawBoy2018

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058223319/work-christmas-bonus

We got a €2K Christmas bonus (subject to tax) and a €500 voucher card (tax free)

FFVII

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339717#Comment_118339717

They'll fix that soon enough to make up for giving away the 2Bil corporation tax and the delay in taxing gift from mam and dad. Fuking comical, we vote them in to run the country and all they do it feck the people over.

Gregor Samsa

We get an annual bonus in March. One part is based on company performance, one part on personal performance. I’ve averaged about 12% over the past few years, next year will be lower, though.

Christmas we got a hamper, and because we had no Christmas party, the budget for that was distributed as One4All cards to all staff. Our Sports & Social club distributed their budget to members, since they had no events all year. As the company match our contributions, we doubled our money (in the form of a One4All voucher). So that was €200 in vouchers in total (although €78 of that was what we paid in).

Nicest Christmas bonus I ever got was one in an old job 15 years ago. The company was tiny - a husband, wife and me. I’d only been there 3 months and the pay was shite. But I’d moved towns and needed the job.

They took me out to lunch on the 23rd and gave me a cheque for €300, which was only 1.3% of my crappy salary, but still, it was a lot to me at the time. Wrote me a lovely note too, saying how much they appreciated me. However, I’d just received an offer for the company I’m in now. The new job paid literally double and had much better perks and prospects, so it was a no-brainier.

I felt bad, though, so I didn’t cash the cheque, and handed it back to them just after Christmas when I handed in my notice (with a note saying how much I appreciated them). Later that afternoon, they handed the cheque back to me, said they fully understood why I was leaving, but they wanted me to have the bonus anyway. A small amount of money, but a nice gesture.

Get a 200 euro one for all voucher at Xmas and and between a 10-12K bonus every May.

Obviously taxed but bonuses shouldn’t be.

The One For All vouchers are an absolute nightmare imo, so difficult to load them onto the App and can be difficult to use in the shops. I'd love to know how many of them go unused.

LawBoy2018

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339865#Comment_118339865

That was very nice of you, love that.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339883#Comment_118339883

I still had €200 worth from last year up until this week. Got a notification saying they were going to start charging a monthly charge on them being unused. Ran straight into Harvey Normans in Limerick and spent them. Very few places take them locally to me, and the €50 online limit is a pain in the arse. Amazon used to accept them, but they’ve been shite since that stopped.

And loading vouchers into the app is indeed a pain in the arse.

Another pain is that my US boss sent me a £50 one last year. But it can only be spent in the UK. I’m currently looking into what to do with it.

Fun fact: I designed and built the very first One4All (then known as The Gift Voucher Shop) website back in 2002 or so. Didn’t work for them, though.

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339871#Comment_118339871

Bonuses of course need to he taxed. It's income.

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118339883#Comment_118339883

Funny you say that. Literally just had the conversation with my wife. She hates them. A pain and never in a shop you want

ablelocks

500 bonus - perx card - way better than oneforall

christmas hamper

Christmas lunch, dinner and office party fully paid for.

Francie Barrett

Bonus is between 10-15% of salary. It's paid at Christmas, but it's really a performance bonus based on the year.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340228#Comment_118340228

Can you use a one4all to buy a perx card?

The J Stands for Jay

€100 voucher at Christmas, but the bonus isn't paid till the new year. Since it's partly based on company performance, it can't be paid until the annual results are announced the the stock market.

FFVII

€50 lidl voucher when working in lidl, miserable shower.

Don't accept it and your cards are marked.

€3k nett!! Half December half January. Have come to expect it....

TheW1zard

500eur all for 1 voucher, hamper, few bottles from clients and 5k tax deductible. The job I had before I got nothing, and after 10 years I got a 100 voucher.

Seems to me the bonus you get or dont get speaks volumes about your employer.

NSAman

Yep Cash is king and everyone gets a bonus! depending on seniority and their performance.

Co-workers need something to make the season enjoyable, including more time off.. ;)

(well all except me..lol)

Speedline

I usually get a 200 euro perx card. I use it to tax my car online every January. (200 for 3 months)

Mister Vain

The most I ever got was a €50 euro voucher, and that was from the customer, not the employer. One boss I worked for walked around the floor with a box of chocolates and allowed each of us to pick one. I got a much bigger bonus on the PUP than I ever did in work.

Montage of Feck

Back in the tiger days I got a brown envelope with a grand in cash but now it's a poxy voucher. Cash is king, down with the cashless society!

Mam1996

Frontline healthcare worker, so no bonus for me. Unfortunately we're getting our holidays taken off us because of no staff due to infection/illness. Just more work because people refuse to adhere to the guidelines 😭😭 Rant over - sorry

piplip87

Got a hamper. I'd say it cost the guts of €100 quid. Cheese, crackers, chutney and not a bottle of something to drink. I'd be hoping for something more next week. I was in a job until last June where we didn't close at all throughout Christmas so delighted to have 10 days off on a row.

FFVII

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341587#Comment_118341587

Do companies still exist?

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341729#Comment_118341729

No. Companies, just like birds, are not real.

FFVII

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341782#Comment_118341782

The 30k, 100k companies. I shouldn't have had to say this...🙄

Karen and ken

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341396#Comment_118341396

A whole chocolate EACH. They spoiled you! 😉

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341782#Comment_118341782

Birds are actually little dinosaurs but very much real. :)

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342034#Comment_118342034

You need to keep up with the latest developments

https://birdsarentreal.com/

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342034#Comment_118342034

They are Chinese government spy drones

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341952#Comment_118341952

Oh, they exist, but they only pay those bonuses to a very few top dogs.

Old (small) company gave us 500 quid in local vouchers. They were great, bunch of pubs accept them. So me and one of the other guys hit my usual spot and put a 50 behind the bar and drank 11 pints in about 2.5 hours. Used another 200 towards filling the rents' oil tank. Ended up using the rest on diesel for the car.

Was expecting a bonus this year at a new company, company is flying at the minute and aren't tight about spending on junkets and parties etc. so I got my hopes up. Probably should have asked around before getting my hopes up 🤣

Jequ0n

Why do people expect to get getting a specific bonus (outside of their incentive scheme) around Christmas time?

Makes no sense.

gmisk

Public sector so zero anything. I got a shout out for working multiple weekends...so it's almost like a bonus...lol

An old department did give all staff a one for all up to max value allowed

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342117#Comment_118342117

It's just a tradition, J. It doesn't have to make logical sense, or be justified under some particular law or dogma. It's just people talking about their experiences on the matter.

Padre_Pio

Get a nice Christmas hamper every year and a 200 euro voucher as well.

The actual bonus is in March, usually between 10-15%

Autosport

Yes get a bonus every Christmas and it’s very welcome 👍

Strumms

Last job went from 150 worth of all for one vouchers and an Xmas party to 50 euros all for one vouchers to absolutely nothing…

the guy behind the decent bonus is now a Vice President, guy who put the kibosh on it all, obviously downgrading deliberately over time to nada…is sat at home somewhere peeling his banana.

blacklilly

Can get up to 25% of salary and I got 100% of that this Christmas.

Nice to know I'm doing something right.

StreetLight

A couple of bus drivers I know in Dublin Bus were refused their Christmas bonus this year because they had to take official sick leave after recovering from heart operations.

Sgt Hartman

No bonus for me unfortunately as I'm in the health service. Best I can hope for is a box of choccys from the consultants.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341968#Comment_118341968

A few people left their chocolates on the table in disgust. We came back in January to a sticky mess. 😁

Civil Service, 30+ years service. Only ever received a "bonus" once if you could call it that - one year we got a €25 one-4-all voucher. It was almost impossible to find somewhere to spend it. No paid for parties either.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118343298#Comment_118343298

I forgot about the parties. We had to pay for half the meal and the company paid the other half.