(Author) Legal Operations Professional:

When do your companies pay out bonuses? This is my first year in-house (F500, public) and have heard that our incentive plan comp gets announced/paid at the end of January or early February. How normal is this? Is it because they don’t want to spoil the Q4 earnings report?

Legal Professional Responses:

• Announced late January or early February and paid out end of February/early March.
  • ^ same.
• For us the determination of incentive compensation, communication to team members and payout all happens in December.
  • Same.
• March/April.
• Announce by mid-March and payout first week of April.
• Informed late January, paid mid February.
• Informed late January, paid out March 15th paycheck.
• March.
• We have a weird fiscal year but bonus is paid out 2 months after fye and there is a mid year “advance” of 50% that is paid out 2 months after end of q2 (so at end of month 8).
• We pay end of Q1, gotta get all that interest on that free cash flow!
• We do it in November and April/May.
• Mid-March.
• Announced last week of February, paid middle of March.