The eight top executives used to share a bonus equal to 10% of net income.

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The company attributed the success to its new employee bonus share scheme.

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Players can also look forward to a share of a win bonus following each victory and an end-of-season performance bonus - often related to whether a team stays up or qualifies for Europe.

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The proportion of workers on flexible hours has nearly doubled since 1991, to almost 30%, and two-thirds of all workers now earn some variable pay (bonus, profit share and so on).

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Sometimes that bonus covers even enterprises established in share with their capital.

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An integrated Facebook API let users share their accomplishments in real-time, and received bonus points for doing so.

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After a year, investors get one share for every 20 held, with a further one-for-15 bonus promised after two years.

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All that said, you might think that the collapse in the bank's share price over the past year would have been more than enough justification to withhold the bonus.

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Dividends are at least 300 basis over Treasuries, but investors have ended up losing most of that to falling share price this year so you should treat those as growth stocks and assume the dividend as a bonus.

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