Holiday Bonus

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Anyone here get a holiday bonus from their company? Or are those a thing of the past?

Specializes in Critical Care.
Because bonuses are taxed at a higher rate than regular income. Maybe you'll some of that back, maybe not. Depends on your tax situation.

No. Bonuses are not taxed at any other rate.

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Because bonuses are taxed at a higher rate than regular income. Maybe you'll some of that back, maybe not. Depends on your tax situation.

The employer withholds an estimated amount, which is usually a higher percentage than what you have withheld from your regular paycheck. But when it is time to pay taxes the bonus gets lumped in with your total income, and all taxed at the same rate.

I just threw a number out there to demonstrate that the cost of a bonus as part of an hourly rate would not be very significant.

$30/hour, no bonus

$29.75 and approx $500 minus taxes at Christmas time it's all just perception.

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Our annual bonus comes in the spring, and it's a company performance based bonus. You work X amount of hours and the company does well the previous year, you get a bonus.

For Christmas this year, I got a spirit week where I can wear holiday pajamas to work.

It's the little things. LOL!

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All employees at my health system get $40 included on one of our December checks. It's better than nothing.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

One year around Thanksgiving we got gift cards, for $25, except almost none of them worked!

This year they gave us a card with $25 in cash.

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Got a $1500 bonus and a catered meal if you work Christmas eve or Christmas. I normally get the bonus but not the meal since I don't work Christmas. The money is nice, but I wouldn't mind a card or some kind of "thank you". But as Don Draper said, I guess "that's what the money is for"...

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LOL...

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All employees at my health system get $40 included on one of our December checks. It's better than nothing.

Could very well be the tank of gas you need to get to work when you have otherwise run out of money (don't laugh, it happens to lots of nurses!)

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One of my patients handed out cards with a scratch off lottery ticket. I won $5.

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Specializes in Lie detection.

From my school some kind angel left a Russell Stover chocolate bar in all of our mailboxes.

From my high profit hospital? Nothing. In 15 years we've gotten a holiday bonus once. It was a $100 Visa gift card, shocked us all.

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The Partners Healthcare hospital (Boston) that I work for, North Shore Medical Center, gives bonuses.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

Never got a bonus in the past and dont get one now.

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