Well, despite all of my negative expectations regarding the subject, we not only got our yearly bonuses today, but they were much higher than I was expecting. The past two quarterly meetings the execs were setting up everyone for disappointment, but I guess some business worked out earlier than planned and we ended up hitting our goals and even maxing out a few categories. So I got a 5.7% bonus, but that’s of my pro-rated salary for last year (since I started in March). That still works out to quite a pretty penny, which I will use to line up the last stake in my credit card debt, which will subsequently fall to zero next month. I called today to cancel my old Parda FCU accounts and credit card (from when I worked at Warner-Lambert). When I got that credit card I needed to have an account with them, so I opened a savings account with 5 dollars in 1996. In 8-9 years I earned a whopping 69 cents in interest. :)
Hehe congrats on the bonus… I’m with a smaller company so the bonuses will probably be harder to come by. I closed out a small credit union account that I had, cashed out $8 ;) I think the teller laughed at me!
I’m not sure how MITRE does bonuses, but I’m pretty certain they are hard to come by also.
Goodrich has paid out every year for many years now… Last year was apparently 6.4%, the year before that in the 7’s, and the year before that it was maxed out at 8%