A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to the 2013 mayoral election and reimbursing them through end - of - the -
year bonuses in a bribery - filled corruption scheme, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday.
Not exact matches
In addition, pay is «competitive,» «raises are based on hours worked,» and workers receive «twice a
year bonuses after you hit top pay.»
«I knew when I was eighty that I would never, for example, think about why I walked away from my 1994 Wall Street
bonus right
in the middle of the
year at the worst possible time.
Compared to counterparts who take all their vacation time, they are less likely to have been promoted within the last
year (23 % to 27 %), and to have received a raise or
bonus in the last three
years (78 % to 84 %).
Even next
year, when I won't get the welcome
bonus, I'll still be ahead by at least $ 500 — assuming I keep the card — plus whatever I earn
in rewards from spending.
Betriebsrat head Klaus Volkert was treated especially kindly, getting 2 million euros
in bonuses over 10
years, while his Brazilian mistress was subsidized to the tune of 400,000 euros.
This
year he has put
in place a yearlong challenge with a
bonus payable quarterly if the company is profitable.
Of course, the backup system kicks
in only when the company is actually able to pay
bonuses, which hasn't happened this
year.
The company's board put a special provision
in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into
bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share
in the next three
years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.
Their salaries and annual
bonuses rose by a median 7.8 %, up sharply from the previous
year's 1.2 % and a decline
in the
year before that.
«It would have been very easy to say this
year, «It's a disaster, not going to do
bonuses,»» says Penny, who wears a diamond - encrusted brooch
in the shape of an ice cream cone affixed to a bright red blouse.
Jamba Juice, which ended its first
year with the new
bonus system
in September, not only met its net - income goal but quadrupled it.
The Game is partly a compensation system: hefty
bonuses for all are pegged to whatever financial goals are most critical
in a given
year.
Today's Globe and Mail reported that CEO's at Canada's 100 largest companies «saw their compensation jump 13 per cent last
year, led higher by a 20 - per - cent increase
in annual cash
bonuses».
Also keep
in mind that you can typically only earn the sign - up
bonus for one Sapphire - branded card every two
years.
Trader
bonuses at Citigroup Inc will be down 5 percent to 10 percent compared with 2013, after market tumult
in the last two weeks of the
year hurt revenue, Reuters reported last week.
The Air Force will also offer aviation
bonuses to more service members
in fiscal
year 2017, which runs until the end of September.
«The Air Force's fiscal
year 2017 Aviation
Bonus take rates have been lower than what the Air Force needs,» Lt. Gen. Gina Grosso, Air Force deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel, and services, said
in the release.
Taxpayers with unusually high income
in a given
year, including those who sold a business, received a large
bonus or experienced a windfall, are among the candidates for tax - loss harvesting, Citrin said.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook received a 74 percent increase
in his annual
bonus for fiscal 2017 as the iPhone maker posted higher revenue and net income, after a rare decline a
year earlier.
«Latest estimates show that average weekly earnings for employees
in Great Britain
in real terms (that is, adjusted for price inflation) fell by 0.7 % including
bonuses, and fell by 0.5 % excluding
bonuses, compared with a
year earlier,» the ONS said.
«Over my six
years in finance, I learned to approach my career as an individual sport, where I was judged by the size of my
bonus and how quickly I was promoted.
Once the deal is complete, his target annual
bonus is $ 20 million and he will be eligible for $ 25 million
in stock grants a
year., the filing said.
Salary plus
bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up
in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the
year, and free snack bar during
year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.
Mayer said
in a statement Wednesday that she has «agreed to forgo my annual
bonus and my annual equity grant this
year and have expressed my desire that my
bonus be redistributed to our company's hardworking employees, who contributed so much to Yahoo's success
in 2016.»
«Employees who ask their boss directly for a
bonus are twice as likely to be successful
in that request than last
year, so making proactive, bold moves
in 2017 could pay off, but one always needs to approach these conversations with care,» said Accounting Principals president, David Alexander.
The average anticipated holiday
bonus is up 66 percent this
year at $ 1,797, compared to $ 1,081
in 2016 and $ 858
in 2015, according to a recent study by Accounting Principals.
More than 70 percent of respondents
in the science, technology, engineering, and medical areas said they're planning to give employees
bonuses this
year.
The estimates are for base salary, cash
bonuses and profit sharing
in today's dollars over a 20 -
year period from from 1994 to 2014.
But over the last 40
years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our
bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds
in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners
in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.
«Setting the targets is a little hard to do
in a young company, because there is no long - term historical trend you can refer to,» says Jeffrey Wojcik, who was part of the team that designed the goals and who may not receive a
bonus this
year.
In that piece, Polk shares details about his first year working as a trader, which resulted in a $ 40,000 bonu
In that piece, Polk shares details about his first
year working as a trader, which resulted
in a $ 40,000 bonu
in a $ 40,000
bonus.
The report is based on personal income tax trends and includes cash
bonuses for the current
year and those deferred from prior
years that were cashed
in.
But for now, he's sitting pretty with his $ 5,000 - per -
year bonus and $ 1 salary since he's raking it
in via the company's life and auto premiums.
Bonuses,
in fact, were up at Goldman
in 2010, with all executive officers receiving higher paychecks than they had during the previous two
years.
Cuomo has been relentless
in going after Bank of America and Merrill Lynch over the
bonuses they paid last
year.
So - called
bonus depreciation is set to expire this
year, and rules (
in Section 179 of the tax code) that allow small companies to take big deductions for many expenses are set to become much less generous.
Also, bear
in mind that giving holiday
bonuses sets a precedent for the
years to come.
The Wells Fargo board awarded the bank's top five executives $ 43.7 million
in discretionary
bonuses this
year, so — called «performance based» pay.
This
year, Oman's
bonus was apparently due
in part to his «efforts to assist homeowners
in modifying mortgage loans and prevent foreclosures, and implementing new servicing processes to comply with new regulations and regulatory orders,» according to the proxy.
The entire executive team, which makes decisions by consensus, has the same paycheck, and the total cash compensation paid to any employee
in a calendar
year is restricted to no more than 19 times the average annual wage, including
bonuses, of all full - time employees.
But Exxon pays half its annual
bonus in cash immediately and
in its proxy, it cited one - and five -
year return on average capital, current -
year and five -
year average earnings, and current -
year as well as the ten -
year average annual shareholder returns as part of the justification for its pay.
The airlines join a host of other companies such as AT&T (t), Boeing (ba) and Wells Fargo & Co (wfcnp) promising to pay
bonuses or invest more
in training after the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code
in 30
years, which cuts the corporate tax rate.
But if top managers are more interested
in the current
year (because they get paid
bonuses that way), they may pull needed resources from these areas, worsening performance later on.
Viacom also said that the
bonus paid to its CEO Philippe Dauman declined 30 % to $ 14 million
in fiscal 2015, while his contractually provided salary of $ 4 million and an annual equity award worth $ 18.9 million were not much changed from the prior
year.
Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Claire Zillman on why bankers are likely to get smaller
bonuses this
year, the first drop
in four
years.
In his first
year, Mitchell built a company culture that put people before profits by raising salaries, providing $ 1,000 - cash
bonuses and disclosing sales and profit figures to all employees.
Each school
in the top 15 sets the average graduate up to earn at least $ 140,000
in salary and
bonus in their first
year of employment after graduation.
As for the
bonus, which has remained at the 25 % level as TRC has grown to a $ 4 - million company, the board mentions that commitment
in its board minutes each
year.
In addition to a $ 1 million base salary and $ 2 million performance
bonus, the Waterloo, Ontario, company will give him 13 million BlackBerry restricted share units, worth $ 85 million based on the current stock price, that will vest over five
years.