41% of US companies will give employees holiday bonuses

Nov 20, 2005 in General Discussions

59% of companies say they won’t be giving out holiday bonuses in any form 2005. And of those that will, only 13% said they will be giving out bonuses in cash, Hewitt Associates told CNN. Among the companies that said they would be giving cash, the average holiday bonus planned is $683, but the cash bonuses slated range between $25 and $2,500.

Interesting…. I don’t know if that’s a good percentage (41% sounds like a good number to me).

I wonder what the numbers are like here in Canada. In my brief working career most of the bonuses I’ve seen have come in the way of a few extra days off between Christmas and New Years. Cash is always nice, but time off is nothing to shake a fist at.

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