Any Feds Not Receive a Bonus?

[Anonymous]

I get a 5% bonus annually. I have an awesome team and give a 5% bonus or QSIs to about 2/3 of my reports, 2-3% to the rest.

Highly intelligent, dedicated employees who feel what they do is important can do truly astonishing work when performance is incentivized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State does not give out annual bonuses.

Thats because they save them for the pale yale folks. Tis another way to discriminate.

What? State gives out performance awards with money/time off (our bureau does this twice a year and pretty much everyone nominated gets something). State also awards step increases, which are the gift that keeps on giving (well, until you reach the cap).

[Anonymous]

I received a couple small performance awards during the year -- totaling under 1000. Is that what you mean by a bonus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at DHS and receive a 25K performance award this year, on top of another 25% pay increase. GS-14 step 8

Wow! That’s significant! What entity within DHS do you work for?

[Anonymous]

I got 40 hours as my performance bonus. I can’t tell if that’s good or bad for where I work without asking other people, which I’m leery of doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at DHS and receive a 25K performance award this year, on top of another 25% pay increase. GS-14 step 8

Wow! That’s significant! What entity within DHS do you work for?

CISA

[Anonymous]

I've never received a bonus around this time of year.

Our performance bonuses, which are not guaranteed, occur sometime in the spring/ early summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File an EEO anyway, then you can claim retaliation for filing an EEO if this one doesn’t pan out

This is why it’s hard to be a manager in the federal government, exactly this

No, it’s why if you’re a federal manager you need to use three brain cells before making a foolish decision. If his manager wanted to cut the award he needed to document in his annual performance evaluation and rate him lower than in prior years. Penalizing someone for a documented RA is, in fact, what the EEO is meant to prevent. If there’s a performance issue it’s the managers job to document.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get a 5% bonus annually. I have an awesome team and give a 5% bonus or QSIs to about 2/3 of my reports, 2-3% to the rest.

Highly intelligent, dedicated employees who feel what they do is important can do truly astonishing work when performance is incentivized.

Ding ding ding! You are the good manager who actually gets it. (I am another manager.) At my first job, my idiot career SES manager told me he refused to offer QSIs for top performers because they were "the gift that keeps on giving" since the raises build on themselves, despite having received several QSIs when he was in my position. He also said we couldn't afford cash bonuses for any GS staff (only time off) but justified nominating SESers like himself for the Presidential Rank Awards because they deserved it. What a master motivator. Didn't take me long to leave for a promotion at another agency.